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.

However, his mother consolidated the Doukas family connection by arranging the Emperor's marriage to Irene Doukaina, granddaughter of the Caesar John Doukas, the uncle of Michael VII, who would not have supported Alexios otherwise.

Alexios was for many years under the strong influence of an eminence grise, his mother Anna Dalassene, a wise and immensely able politician whom, in a uniquely irregular fashion, he had crowned as Augusta instead of the rightful claimant to the title, his wife Irene Doukaina.

Although he had crowned his son John II Komnenos co-emperor at the age of five in 1092, John's mother Irene Doukaina wished to alter the succession in favor of her daughter Anna and Anna's husband, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger.

His father, Achille La Guardia, was a lapsed-Catholic from Cerignola, and his mother, Irene Coen, was a Jew from Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ; his maternal grandmother Fiorina Luzzatto Coen was a Luzzatto, a member of the prestigious Italian Jewish family of scholars, kabbalists and poets and had among her ancestors the famous rabbi Samuel David Luzzatto better known as Shadal.

In 780, Constantine VI ascended the throne in Constantinople, but being a minor, was managed by his mother Empress Irene.

On 29 October 2008, Benaud's mother Irene died, aged 104.

The monks arrived in Thessaloniki in March 797, but did not remain for long ; in August of the same year Constantine VI was blinded and overthrown, and his mother Irene, the new empress, lifted the exile.

Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England, to a Welsh father, Brinley (" Bryn ") Newton-John, and a Berlin-born mother, Irene Helene ( Born ), the eldest child of the Nobel prize-winning atomic physicist Max Born.

Constantine VI was the only son of Leo IV and succeeded him as emperor, ruling jointly with his mother, Irene.

* Irene Richmond ( Mrs Ferris: Bob's mother ) in " Talk Of The Town ", " The Razor's Edge " and " Goodbye To All That "

Out on the front lines, Nicholas is visited by his mother the Dowager Empress Maria Foeodorovna ( Irene Worth ), ( who is very outspokenly critical of her son's lack of leadership abilities ), who scolds him about not attending to crumbling domestic issues and implores him to eliminate Rasputin ( as well as to send Alexandra away to one of the royal palaces out of sight ).

Additionally, Anna demonstrates her close familial ties in describing the scene when her mother, Irene, was pregnant, waiting for two days to give birth so that Alexios could be there.

On the other hand, Anna ’ s mother, Irene Doukaina, according to Choniates “ threw her full influence on the side of ” and “ continually attempted ” to persuade the emperor to designate Nikephoros Bryennios, Anna ’ s husband, as emperor.

In the early morning hours of 13 December, the king boarded the royal plane together with Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, their two young children, Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark and Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, his mother, Queen Frederika, and his sister, Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark.

Her earliest theatrical influences were the teenaged actress Deanna Durbin, screen star Irene Dunne and Lansbury's mother, who encouraged her daughter's ambition by taking her to plays at the Old Vic.

25-date " Electroset " ( European ) tour ( the third one ) ( featuring Simon Hayward and Sarah Brown ) was scheduled from 18 October to 3 December 2010 but the band played only 9 shows till the rest of the tour was cancelled after the performance on 13 November 2010 in Dublin, Ireland because of Jim's mother Irene who had become ill with a recurrence of cancer.

Ptolemy ’ s mother was a native Egyptian woman called Eirene ( Irene ) or according to the Roman Jewish historian Josephus her name was Ithaca.

Irene is Jenny and Petey's mother.

His mother, Irene Dobbs Jackson, was a Professor of French at Spelman College in Atlanta.

His mother, Irene, was the sister of political activist Gottfried Lessing, who was married to the British writer Doris Lessing during his exile in Southern Rhodesia.

She appeared as a debutante and singer in the hit Broadway revival Irene ( 1973 ), starring her mother.

Stevens returned to England around 1895 and married Frances Vanbrugh, widowed mother of the actresses Irene and Violet Vanbrugh.

Irene Bedard, who was the speaking voice of Pocahontas, portrayed Pocahontas ' mother in a flashback sequence also in The New World.

According to the Vita Ansgarii (" Life of Ansgar "), when the little boy learned in a vision that his mother was in the company of Saint Mary, his careless attitude toward spiritual matters changed to seriousness (" Life of Ansgar ", 1 ).

Three late tenth century and early eleventh century women presented their views of life and romance at the Heian court in Kagerō Nikki (" The Gossamer Years ") by " the mother of Michitsuna ", Makura no Sōshi ( The Pillow Book ) by Sei Shōnagon, and Genji Monogatari ( Tale of Genji ) by Murasaki Shikibu ( herself a Fujiwara ).

In names for familiar relatives, where both genders are taken into account, either the words for each gender are put together (" son ": seme ; " daughter ": alaba ; " children "( meaning son ( s ) and daughter ( s )): seme-alaba ( k )) or there is a noun that includes both: " father ": aita ; " mother ": ama ; " father " ( both genders ): guraso.

A connection with Smyrna seems to be alluded to in a legend that his original name was Melesigenes (" born of Meles ", a river which flowed by that city ), with his mother the nymph Kretheis.

His mother and grandmother became the first women to be allowed into the Senate, and both received senatorial titles: Soaemias the established title of Clarissima, and Maesa the more unorthodox Mater Castrorum et Senatus (" Mother of the army camp and of the Senate ").

In 1953, he mortgaged his furniture, generating a bank loan of $ 600, and raised $ 8, 000 from 45 investors — including $ 1, 000 from his mother (" Not because she believed in the venture ," he told E!

Pelias was the product of a union between their shared mother, Tyro (" high born Tyro ") the daughter of Salmoneus, and allegedly the sea god Poseidon.

His father, Daniel Levitch, was a Master of Ceremonies and vaudeville entertainer who used the professional name Danny Lewis, His mother, Rachel (" Rae ") Levitch ( Brodsky ), was a piano player for a radio station.

In 1998, he debuted his most personal project, Mamaloshen, a collection of traditional, classic, and contemporary songs sung entirely in Yiddish (" Mamaloshen " is Yiddish for " mother tongue ").

In early Greek and Roman history, a few philosophers claimed that although every child has one absolute mother, it did not follow that every child had one absolute father (" mater semper certa est ").

Two months later the men want Ben to send Jennifer away, and he wishes her mother was still alive to help him (" I Still See Elisa ").

His mother, Sophie (" Phia ") Entz ( 1851 – 1931 ), came from a well-to-do Prague family, the Entz-Kinzelbergers, who lived in a house on the Herrengasse ( Panská ) 8, where René also spent many of his early years.

Once he allayed her fears, he admitted wanting even more children just like their mother, and Torres was shown as finally enjoying the pregnancy (" Lineage ").

While the family resided in Baton Rouge, Soderbergh's mother appeared regularly on a local ABC-affiliate's ( WBRZ-TV / broadcast channel 2 ) early-morning show (" 2une In ") as a " call-in " psychic, and taught adult-education and " alternative education " classes in " parapsychology " at LSU.

According to Rabbinic literature, God via the Torah commands Jews to observe ( refrain from forbidden activity ) and remember ( with words, thoughts, and actions ) the Shabbat, and these two actions are symbolized by the two Shabbat candles which are lit 18 to 40 minutes (" Tosefet Shabbat ") before the onset of Shabbat by Jewish women, usually the mother / wife, though men who live alone are required to do so themselves.

The concept of the taiji (" supreme ultimate "), in contrast with wuji (" without ultimate "), appears in both Taoist and Confucian Chinese philosophy, where it represents the fusion or mother of Yin and Yang into a single ultimate, represented by the taijitu symbol.

(" A bandit leader endowed with supernatural powers by his sorceress mother makes yearly raids on a peasant village.

The barony in the Sandys family (" sands ") had been revived in 1802 for the second baron's mother, Mary Sandys Hill, so at the date of the legend, in the 1830s, " Lord " Sandys was actually a Lady.

His mother having been childless for twelve years, his birth was promised by a hermit named Macedonius on the condition of his dedication to God, whence the name Theodoret (" gift of God ").

Theodoret shared in the petition of John I of Antioch to Nestorius to approve of the term theotokos (" mother of God "), and upon the request of John wrote against Cyril's anathemas.

His mother died when he was a teenager, and he has a younger sister named María Teresa (" Maite ").

The association of Tantalus with the underworld is underscored by the names of his mother Plouto (" riches ", as in gold and other mineral wealth ), and grandmother, Chthonia (" earth ").