At an early age, Catherine was considered a suitable wife for Arthur, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Henry VII of England and heir to the throne, due to the English ancestry she inherited from her mother Queen Isabella I of Castile.

By means of her mother, Catherine had a stronger legitimate claim to the English throne than King Henry VII himself through the first two wives of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster: Blanche of Lancaster and the Spanish Infanta Constance of Castile.

Giovanna was handed over to a wet-nurse, and presently died, whereas Catherine was nursed by her mother, and developed into a healthy child.

Her older half-sister, Mary, had lost her position as a legitimate heir when Henry annulled his marriage to Mary's mother, Catherine of Aragon, in order to marry Anne and sire a male heir to ensure the Tudor succession.

His mother, Mary Catherine Williams, was born in the British West Indies ; her father was from Wales.

* 1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.

Her fifth child, Catherine, married King Henry VIII of England and was mother to Queen Mary I of England.

His father, Charles Scorsese ( 1913 – 1993 ), and mother, Catherine Scorsese ( born Cappa ; 1912 – 1997 ), both worked in New York's Garment District.

Mary's mother, Catherine of Aragon, c. 1525

Although both she and her mother were ill, Mary was refused permission to visit Catherine.

Paul I was particularly proud to be great-grandson of the illustrious Russian monarch, although his German-born mother, Catherine II ( of the House of Anhalt-Zerbst ), insinuated in her memoirs that Paul's natural father had been her lover Serge Saltykov.

Despite Elizabeth's government constantly begging her to marry in the early years of her reign, it was now persuading Elizabeth not to marry the French prince for his mother, Catherine de ' Medici, was suspected of ordering the St Bartholomew's Day massacre of tens of thousands of French Protestant Huguenots in 1572.

His mother, Catherine de ' Medici, acts as Regent until Henry arrives from Poland.

Catherine Smith noted that her mother was the one most responsible for the development of Smith's patrician demeanor.

De Valera was born in New York City in 1882 to an Irish mother ; his parents, Catherine Coll ( subsequently Mrs Wheelwright ), an immigrant from Bruree, County Limerick, and Juan Vivion de Valera, a Cuban settler and sculptor of Spanish descent, were reportedly married on 18 September 1881 at St. Patrick's Church in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Ruby Stevens was the fifth and youngest child of Catherine Ann ( née McPhee ) and Byron E. Stevens ; the couple were working-class, her father a native of Massachusetts and her mother an immigrant from Nova Scotia, Canada.

Henry's death thrust Catherine into the political arena as mother of the frail fifteen-year-old King Francis II.

On her conversion to the Russian Orthodox Church, Sophie was given the name of Catherine in memory of Elizabeth's mother.

She removed the young Paul and acted as if she were his mother and not Catherine.

That same year Catherine de ' Medici, the influential mother of King Charles IX of France, arranged for the marriage of her daughter, Margaret of Valois, to Henry as a peace offering between the Catholics and Huguenots.

In December 1796, after succeeding Catherine, Peter's son the Emperor Paul, who disliked his mother, arranged for his remains to be exhumed and then reburied with full honors in the Peter and Paul Cathedral, where other tsars were buried.

His mother, Catherine of Valois, was then 20 years old and, as Charles VI's daughter, was viewed with considerable suspicion by English nobles and prevented from having a full role in her son's upbringing.

Her mother, Lady Parr, was a close friend and attendant of Queen Catherine of Aragon.

This connection made Catherine a fourth cousin through Henry's father and a second cousin once removed through his mother.

* Diana, Princess of Wales, noblewoman, her mother, Frances Burke Roche was a descendant of the Earls of Fermoy

" According to Burke, his mother introduced him to Jimmy Reed and Ray Charles as well as that era's king of smooth, Billy Eckstein.

" After an argument with his mother, with whom he had an often volatile relationship, Burke was evicted from his home and began living on the streets of North Philadelphia in 1957.

'" Burke recalled: “ My mother was so angry.

" Written by Burke and his then wife, Delores Burke, and John " J. B ." Moore, " a vengeful song about getting past someone who has found a new lover, and ... inspired by Burke's marital strife ", it " features his smooth, solid voice lamenting the death of a love affair ", " Got to Get You Off My Mind " was started on 11 December 1964, just hours after Burke heard that his friend Sam Cooke had been murdered, just after Burke ate with him in a Los Angeles restaurant, and on the same day his third wife, Delores, the mother then of 11 of his children, informed him by mail that she wanted a divorce.

By 1999 Burke had started his own record labels: GTR Records ( an abbreviation of Gospel Truth Recordings ) for gospel music projects, which was owned by his children, and was also " the mother label for The One, which is our secular label.

In 2006, she appeared in the television medical drama Grey's Anatomy as Jane Burke, the demanding mother of Dr. Preston Burke.

As original characters began to leave the series ( Mum Brooks, Lynn Warner, Karen and Greg all appeared beyond the initial sixteen episodes, but had made their exits by the end of the 1979 season, with Greg leaving early 1980 ), new characters arrived: hulking husband-basher Monica Ferguson ( Lesley Baker ), sneering career criminal Noeline Burke ( Jude Kuring ), idealistic murderess Roslyn Coulson ( Sigrid Thornton ) and imprisoned mother Pat O ' Connell ( Monica Maughan ), as well as many shorter term inmates with briefer storylines.

Burke ’ s Colonial Gentry, 1891 – 1896, Page 96, says he was born in 1793, describes his mother as Catherine Parry, and that she was the wife of D ' Arcy.

( Burke played Katharine Hepburn's mother in the film, which was Hepburn's debut ).

Her mother was Maud Alice Burke an American heiress, who adopted the first name Emerald and became a leading London society hostess.

Years later, Littlefoot plays with Cera ( Candace Hutson ), a " Three-horn ", who was trying to smash a beetle until her father ( Burke Byrnes ) intervenes ; whereupon Littlefoot's mother ( Helen Shaver ) names the different kinds of dinosaurs: " Three-horns ", " Spiketails ", " Swimmers ", and " Flyers " and states that each has historically remained apart.

Mary Cherry has a long history of mother issues ; her mother, Cherry Cherry ( Delta Burke ), often insults and degrades her even though she claims to love her.

Jackie Stallone ( Sylvester Stallone's mother ) was the figurehead owner and manager of the Good Girls, and Aunt Kitty ( Kitty Burke ) was the manager for the Bad Girls.

He lived with his mother, Sharon Melissa Byers, his stepfather, John Mark Byers, and his stepbrother, Shawn Ryan Clark, aged 13.

In the United States Department of War in Washington, D. C., General George Marshall is informed that three of four brothers in the Ryan family have all died within days of each other and that their mother will receive all three telegrams on the same day.

Hughes was born in Lansing, Michigan, to a mother, Ryan Boudinot, T Cooper, Quinn Dalton, Emily Franklin, Lisa Gabriele, Tod Goldberg, Nina de Gramont, Tara Ison, Allison Lynn, John McNally, Dan Pope, Lewis Robinson, Ben Schrank, Elizabeth Searle, Mary Sullivan, Rebecca Wolff, and Moon Unit Zappa.

In recent years, she has been in the comedy films, Step Brothers ( 2008 ), starring Will Ferrell, playing the mother of Ferrell's character ; Four Christmases ( 2008 ) opposite Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon ; and The Proposal ( 2009 ) opposite Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds.

The gunman, 27-year-old Michael Robert Ryan, armed with two semi-automatic rifles and a handgun, shot and killed sixteen people including his mother, and wounded fifteen others, then fatally shot himself.

At the time of the shooting, Ryan lived with his mother, Dorothy, a dinner lady at the local primary school.

There was extensive press comment on this, suggesting the relationship was ' unhealthy ' and that Ryan was " spoiled " by his mother.

Ryan shot his mother dead as she raised her arms and pleaded with him not to shoot.

Andrew's mother, Angeline Martin ( 1811 – 1849 ), was the eldest of Armand ( 1785 – 1861 ) and Mary ( née Ryan, 1789 – 1866 ) Martin's nine children.

Ryan also attempts to resolve his individual relationships with his mother, and with his childhood friend Theresa Diaz.

Benjamin McKenzie portrays Ryan Atwood, a troubled teenager from Chino who is thrust into the privileged community of Newport Beach, California after his mother, Dawn Atwood, throws him out of their family home.

A 27-year-old unemployed local labourer, Michael Robert Ryan, armed with several weapons including an AK-47 rifle and a Beretta pistol, shot and killed 16 people including his mother, and wounded 15 others, then fatally shot himself.

Her father, William M. Ryan Sr., was a sailor, gold miner, and truck farmer of Irish descent ; her mother, Katherine Halberstadt, was a German immigrant.

She is also a prominent AIDS activist and played Ryan White's mother in the 1989 TV movie on his life The Ryan White Story.

She appeared as Jamie Kennedy's mother and Ryan O ' Neal's wife in Malibu's Most Wanted ( 2003 ).

However, Luke does show a slightly sympathetic side early on, saving Ryan from the model home fire in the second episode and assisting Ryan's mother during her drunken meltdown at Vegas Night.

Ryan saves her and brings her to the hospital, where her mother Julie tries to force her into rehab.

His precise ancestry is unknown ; his mother was possibly the Irish immigrant Katherine Ryan, and his father James Nally ( also of Irish heritage ), although official documentation lists Thomas Ryan as father ; possibly in order to make the birth legitimate.

She is in High School Musical 2, High School Musical 3 and Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure as Darby Evans, the mother of Ryan ( Lucas Grabeel ) and Sharpay ( Ashley Tisdale ).

Ryan's mother, Lucinda Fortune Ryan, died in 1856 when he was five years old.

While he was not present at the vote on the Paul Ryan Budget, he intended to vote for it but was in Washington state for the death of his mother.

Among the characters are a mature couple about to renew their vows ( Sean Connery and Gena Rowlands ); a woman ( Gillian Anderson ) who accepts a date offer from a stranger ( Jon Stewart ); a gay man dying of AIDS ( Jay Mohr ) and his mother ( Ellen Burstyn ) who has struggled to accept him ; two clubbers who meet in a nightclub ( Ryan Phillippe and Angelina Jolie ); a couple having an affair ( Anthony Edwards and Madeleine Stowe ) and a man ( Dennis Quaid ) who tells his tragic life story to a woman he meets in a bar ( Patricia Clarkson ), but seems to have a strange connection to another mysterious woman.