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.

His mother, Catherine Burke Ryan, ( 1923 – 1974 ) was a nurse.

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.

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.

Marie de Coucy, who became mother of Alexander III of Scotland

* 1941 – Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian mother of Delphine Boël

In 1939 Grothendieck went to France and lived in various camps for displaced persons with his mother, first at the Camp de Rieucros, and subsequently lived for the remainder of the war in the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where he was sheltered and hidden in local boarding-houses or pensions.

That year Abdülaziz led the visiting Eugénie de Montijo, Empress of France, to see his mother.

Her mother was born Countess Maria-Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, a socialite of Italian, Swiss, French, and Egyptian ancestry.

Whatever the truth Olympia, rather than face trial, subsequently fled France for Brussels in January 1680, leaving Eugene in the care of his father's mother, Marie de Bourbon, and her daughter, Hereditary Princess of Baden, mother of Prince Louis of Baden.

Possessing a high-spirited nature, Eleanor was not popular with the staid northerners ( according to sources, Louis ´ s mother, Adélaide de Maurienne, thought her flighty and a bad influence ).

One of the most famous Imperial coronation ceremonies was that of Napoleon, crowning himself Emperor in the presence of Pope Pius VII ( who had blessed the regalia ), at the Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The painting by Jacques-Louis David | David commemorating the event is equally famous: the gothic cathedral restyled Empire ( style ) | style Empire, supervised by the Letizia Ramolino | mother of the Emperor on the balcony ( a fictional addition, while she had not been present at the ceremony ), the pope positioned near the altar, Napoleon proceeds to crown his then wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais as Empress.

As Chūai died before Ōjin's birth, his mother Jingū became the de facto ruler.

In August 1687 Count William Nassau de Zuylestein was sent to England, ostensibly to send condolences due to the death of the queen's mother.

Her mother, Marie de Guise, stayed in Scotland to look after the interests of Mary — and of France — although the Earl of Arran acted officially as regent.

His mother may have been a sister of Walter de Gand.

* 1128 – Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães: forces led by Alfonso I defeat forces led by his mother Teresa of León and her lover Fernando Pérez de Traba.

After World War II, while many European nations were granting independence to their colonies, Portugal's Estado Novo regime headed by António de Oliveira Salazar issued a decree officially renaming Mozambique and other Portuguese possessions as overseas provinces of the mother country, and emigration to the colonies soared ( Mozambique's ethnic Portuguese resident population was about 300, 000 in 1973, which excludes the Portuguese military sent from the mainland and mulatto population ).

Vasari's opinion was that Mariotto was not so well grounded in drawing as Bartolomeo, and he tells that, to improve his hand he had taken to drawing the antiquities in the Medici garden, where he was encouraged by Madonna Alfonsina, the mother of Lorenzo de ' Medici.

His mother could trace her ancestry back to William de Ferrières, who came to England with William the Conqueror in the 11th century.

'" " The bowler hat was of course de rigueur for male persons in many social contexts when Beckett was growing up in Foxrock ( when he first came back with his beret ... his mother suggested that he was letting the family down by not wearing a bowler ), and father commonly wore one.

* April 24 – Encouraged by Charles d ' Albert, the seventeen-year-old Louis XIII, king of France, forces his mother Marie de Medici, who has held de facto power, into retirement and has her favourite, Concino Concini, assassinated.

** Battle of Les Ponts-de-Cé, Poitou: French king Louis XIII defeats his mother Marie de ' Medici.