* Luns ' spouse Baroness Lia van Heemstra was a niece of baroness Ella van Heemstra, the mother of actress Audrey Hepburn.

Their mother was Sydney Freeman-Mitford, Baroness Redesdale, known as " Muv ", the daughter of Thomas Bowles, whom David married in 1904.

Her mother, Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso, was originally from Vienna, with aristocratic roots in the Habsburg Dynasty and Jewish ancestry on her maternal side.

His father Dmitry Nabokov ( 1827 – 1904 ) was a Justice Minister in the reign of Alexander II from 1878 to 1885, and his mother Maria von Korff ( 1842 – 1926 ) was a Baroness from a prominent Baltic German family in Courland.

Through her mother she is the granddaughter of former Labour Party General Secretary Morgan Phillips and Norah Phillips, Baroness Phillips.

Her mother, who was a cousin of Baroness Mary Vetsera, a mistress of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, said that Count Gizycki's main interest in life was " the pleasuring of women in a physical way ....

They claim the title of Baron / Baroness through their mother, but they are not entitled to it.

His mother, Catherine Compton, Baroness Arden, was a grand-daughter of the 4th Earl of Northampton.

Also in 1688, Lord Cornbury married, in a clandestine ceremony, Katherine O ' Brien, daughter of Henry, Lord Ibrackan, eldest son of the 7th Earl of Thomond, who succeeded her mother in 1702 as 8th Baroness Clifton.

His wife was Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville, whose mother, Jeanne of Lusignan was one of the heiresses of the French Counts of La Marche and Angouleme.

The Kinsky family has denied such charges, arguing that Prince Franz Ulrich was just two years old at the time of his father's death and that he and his mother, Princess Kinsky ( née Baroness Mathilde von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen — whose family reputedly plotted against Hitler ) had left the occupied country and went into exile in Argentina shortly afterwards.

A further chest tomb exists in the Lady Chapel with effigies of the 9th feudal baron ( 1368 ) and his mother Margaret Mortimer, Baroness Berkeley ( d. 1337 ).

He said that his mother was the Baroness Krzyżanowska ( Krzyzanovska ).

The identity of Thalberg's mother is now generally accepted as Baroness Maria Julia Wetzlar von Plankenstern.

Baroness von Wetzlar, his mother, who according to Wurzbach was occupied with his education during his childhood and early youth, was a brilliant amateur pianist.

He returned to London at the beginning of February 1840, and then travelled from London to Paris together with Baroness Wetzlar, his mother, awaiting the arrival of Liszt.

Anne Isabella Noel Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron ( 17 May 1792 – 16 May 1860 ) was the wife of the poet Lord Byron, and mother of Ada Lovelace, the patron and co-worker of mathematician Charles Babbage.

Nicolai Gedda sang the lover Anatol, mezzo Regina Resnik sang the Baroness, Vanessa's mother, while bass, Giorgio Tozzi, sang the old doctor.

Victoria Josefa Dolores Catalina Sackville-West, Baroness Sackville ( 1862 – 1936 ) was the wife of her cousin Lionel Edward Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville and the mother of writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West.

In 1591, he inherited the barony of de Ros from his mother, Elizabeth Cecil, 16th Baroness de Ros.

Douglas Sheffield ( also spelt Douglass ), Baroness Sheffield, née Howard, ( 1542 / 1543 – 1608 ) was an English noblewoman and the mother of the explorer and cartographer Sir Robert Dudley, illegitimate son of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.

Although the duke remarried in 1796 with Baroness Wilhelmine Justine of Mosheim ( Yury Golovkin's mother ), he had no further children and was survived by only one of his eight children.

His mother, Baroness Gerta Louise née Rieß von Scheurnschloss, an officer's daughter from Kassel, led a lavish lifestyle between Berlin and Paris.

He was married twice, to Valide Sultan Mahfiruze Hatice Sultan, originally named Maria, a Greek, mother of Osman II, and to Valide Sultan Kadinefendi Kösem Sultan or Mahpeyker, originally named Anastasia, a Greek, mother of Murad IV and Ibrahim I.

The mother of Alexios, Anna Dalassena, was to play a prominent role in this coup d ' état of 1081, along with the current empress, Maria of Alania.

At the emperor's further insistence, and for their own protection they took refuge at the convent of Petrion, where eventually they were joined by Irene Doukaina's mother, Maria of Bulgaria.

As a measure intended to keep the support of the Doukai, Alexios restored Constantine Doukas, the young son of Michael VII and Maria, as co-emperor and a little later betrothed him to his own first-born daughter Anna, who moved into the Mangana Palace with her fiancé and his mother.

Friends of the young Alexios II now tried to form a party against the empress mother and the prōtosebastos ; Alexios II's half-sister Maria, wife of Caesar John ( Renier of Montferrat ), stirred up riots in the streets of the capital.

His mother, Maria Christina of Austria, was appointed regent during his minority.

In 1180 the Emperor Manuel died and was succeeded by his ten year old son Alexios II, who was under the guardianship of his mother, Empress Maria.

Soon afterwards he had the Empress Maria imprisoned and then killed ( forcing a signature from the child Emperor Alexius to put his mother to death ), by Pterygeonites and the hetaireiarches Constantine Tripsychos.

Anne's mother, Maria Branwell ( 1783 – 1821 ), was the daughter of Thomas Branwell, a successful, property-owning grocer and tea merchant in Penzance and Anne Carne, the daughter of a silversmith.

The mother of Napoleon, his consort Maria Louise ( as Concord ), to model whom the author made a further journey to Paris in 1810, the princess Esterhazy and the muse Polymnia ( Elisa Bonaparte ) take their place in this class, as do the ideal heads, comprising Corinna, Sappho, Laura, Beatrice and Helen of Troy.

His mother, Maria Louisa Putnam Bellamy, was herself the daughter of a Baptist minister named Benjamin Putnam, a man forced to withdraw from the ministry in Salem, Massachusetts, following objections to him becoming a Freemason.

After the death of their mother in 1821, when Emily was three years old, the older sisters Maria, Elizabeth and Charlotte were sent to the Clergy Daughters ' School at Cowan Bridge, where they encountered abuse and privations later described by Charlotte in Jane Eyre.

In 1836 her mother died and Evans ( then 16 ) returned home to act as housekeeper, but she continued correspondence with her tutor Maria Lewis.

Isabella was only three years old at the time so her mother, Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, was named regent until her daughter came of age.

His father was Gebhard Himmler, a teacher, and his mother was Anna Maria Himmler ( née Heyder ), a devout Roman Catholic.

* 1778 – Anna Maria Mozart, Austrian mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( b. 1720 )

Meanwhile, Baldwin IV's stepmother Maria, mother of Isabella and stepmother of Sibylla, married Balian of Ibelin.

Isabella's mother Maria and the Ibelins ( now closely allied to Conrad ) argued that Isabella and Humphrey's marriage was illegal, as she had been underage at the time ; underlying this was the fact that Humphrey had betrayed his wife's cause in 1186.

His father, Edward Tsiolkovsky ( in ), was Polish ; his mother, Maria Yumasheva, was an educated Russian woman.

Martin Van Buren's mother was Maria Van Alen ( née Hoes ) Van Buren ( 1747 – 1818 ).

Her father, Pietro Agnesi, also married twice more after Maria's mother died, so that Maria Agnesi ended up the oldest of 21 children.

He had the rooms of his castle in Stockholm redecorated and started making preparations to leave for Berlin to press his suit in person, when a letter arrived from Maria Eleonora's mother to his mother.

" Maria Feodorovna was the younger sister of Alexandra, Queen Consort of King Edward VII and mother of George V of the United Kingdom, which helps to explain the striking resemblance between their sons Nicholas II and George V. Her older brother was King George I of Greece.