Since Edith was also the niece of Edgar the Ætheling and the great-granddaughter of Edmund Ironside ( the half-brother of Edward the Confessor ) the marriage united the Norman line with the old English line of kings.

He lived to see the tragic death at sea in November 1120 of William Adeling, the son of his niece Edith and heir to Henry I. Edgar was still alive in 1125 according to William of Malmesbury who was writing at the time.

A few months later, encouraged by her brother, who believed his niece should try her luck in " the picture business ", then operating largely on the East Coast, Edith sold her daughter's piano and bought three train tickets for New York.

She was the niece of Edith Wharton and lifelong friend of Henry James.

There is evidence to suggest that the village dates back at least as far as the Anglo Saxon era as the village was reputedly the birthplace of daughters of King Penda, St Edburga and St Edith, and their niece St Osyth.

Born in Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire ( at that time part of Mercia ), she was the daughter of Frithwald, a sub-king of Mercia in Surrey, and was the niece of Saint Edith and Saint Edburga of Bicester.

In 1853 Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones built a 24 room gothic villa called Wyndclyffe described by Henry Winthrop Sargent in 1859 as being very fine in the style of a Scottish castle, but by Edith Wharton, Elizabeth's niece, as a gloomy monstrosity.

They appear in a Christmas episode during the 1978-79 season, in which Archie and Edith ( and Edith's niece Stephanie ) impulsively visit Michael and Gloria, exposing the fact that the couple have secretly separated due to troubles in their marriage, including her infidelity.

Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katherine Harris Bradley ( 27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914 ) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper ( 12 January 1862 – 13 December 1913 ).

Emma Cooper became an invalid for life after the birth of her second daughter, Amy, and Katherine Bradley, being her sister, stepped in to become the legal guardian of her niece Edith Cooper.

On her death in 1874, the title passed to Edith's son, the 11th Earl of Loudoun and as he was childless, it then passed to his niece, Edith, the 12th Countess.

About 1970 it was renamed École Florian, after the French poet and fabulist Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, whose uncle and guardian, the Marquis de Florian, had married a niece of Voltaire.

David of Scotland also invaded the north of England once again, announcing that he was supporting the claim of his niece the Empress Matilda to the throne, pushing south into Yorkshire.

David of Scotland also invaded the north of England once again, announcing that he was supporting the claim of his niece the Empress Matilda to the throne, pushing south into Yorkshire.

In 1916 Charles Henry Fox Talbot bequeathed the Lacock estate to his niece, Matilda Gilchrist-Clark, who took the name of Talbot.

King David had entered England in support of his niece, Empress Matilda, who was viewed as the rightful heiress to the English throne usurped by King Stephen.

Edgar's niece Matilda of Scotland later married William's son Henry I, forming a link between the two dynasties.

When Philip died in 1235, for unknown reasons the county passed to Adelaide of Brabant, Matilda's niece, and her husband William X of Auvergne, count of Auvergne, rather than Matilda and Philip's descendants.

Princess Sophia of Gloucester ( Sophia Matilda ; 29 May 1773 – 29 November 1844 ) was a member of the British Royal Family, a great granddaughter of George II and niece of George III.

Two years later, he met and fell in love with Otto's niece, Matilda Friedrich, the daughter of Carl Friedrich, the political scientist and constitutional scholar.

1929 portrait of King Alfonso XIIIOn 31 May 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo in Madrid, Alfonso married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), a niece of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

In the liner notes to Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection, Billy Altman notes that " Peggy Sue " was originally written as " Cindy Lou " ( after Holly's niece ), but Holly changed it prior to recording as a tip of the hat to Crickets drummer Jerry Allison's girlfriend, Peggy Sue Gerron.

* Wafah Dufour ( née bin Laden, born 1975 ), American model and niece of Osama bin Laden

In addition, having been close to him in their youth, she now showed excessive affection towards her uncle – whilst many historians today dismiss this as familial affection ( noting their early friendship, and his similarity to her father and grandfather ), many of Eleanor's adversaries mistook the generous displays of affection between uncle and niece for an incestuous affair.

Peter I was succeeded by his second wife ( Catherine I, 1725 – 1728 ) who was merely a figure-head for a powerful group of high officials, then by his minor grandson ( Peter II, 1728 – 1730 ), then by his niece, Anna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V. In 1741 Elizabeth, daughter of Peter, seized the throne, assisted by the Preobrazhensky Regiment.

While in prison he fell in love with Nina Gegechkori ( 1905 – 10 June 1991 ), his cellmate's niece, and they eloped on a train.

The position of the young prince, at the both Polish and Imperial courts, became stronger in 1013 when he married Richeza ( Ryksa ), daughter of Count Palatine Ezzo of Lotharingia and niece of Emperor Otto III.

In 1855 he married Mary Everest ( niece of George Everest ), who later wrote several educational works on her husband's principles.

At a dinner party, Phil meets Minify's divorced niece Kathy Lacey ( Dorothy McGuire ), who turns out to be the person who originally suggested the story idea.

* In Suddenly Last Summer ( 1959 adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play ), a wealthy woman named Violet Venable ( Katharine Hepburn ) wants her niece Catherine Holly ( Elizabeth Taylor ) lobotomized to silence her talk about Violet's son Sebastian's homosexuality.

Through her mother, Richeza was a niece of Emperor Otto III ( who was instrumental to her betrothal ), Adelheid I, Abbess of Quedlinburg and Sophia I, Abbess of Gandersheim.

He later entertained thoughts of remarriage in order to renew the alliance with Spain-Joan, Dowager Queen of Naples ( niece of Ferdinand II of Aragon ), Joanna, Queen of Castile ( daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella ), and Margaret, Dowager Duchess of Savoy ( sister-in-law of Joanna of Castile ) were all considered-but Henry died a widower in 1509.

: For playwright Frances Burney ( 1776 – 1828 ), niece of novelist Fanny Burney Madame d ' Arblay 1752-1840, see Frances Burney ( 1776 – 1828 )

In the English colony of Port Royal, Peter Blood is purchased by Arabella Bishop ( Olivia de Havilland ), the beautiful niece of the local military commander Colonel Bishop.

* Martha Endell – A young woman, once Little Emily's friend, who later gains a bad reputation ( we suppose she incurs in some sexually inappropriate behaviour and is thus disgraced ), who, in the later chapters of the novel helps Daniel Peggotty find his niece after she returns to London.

He married Bonne of Berry ( 1365 – 1435 ), daughter of Duke John of Berry and a niece of Bonne of Bourbon.

He married his niece Maria Anna, Princess of Savoy ( 1757 – 1824 ), daughter of his older half-brother Victor Amadeus III, no issue.

David Lean was born in Croydon, Surrey ( now part of Greater London ), to Francis William le Blount Lean and the former Helena Tangye ( niece of Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye ).

Constantijn Huygens was born in The Hague, the second son of Christiaan Huygens ( senior ), secretary of the Council of State, and Susanna Hoefnagel, niece of the Antwerp painter Joris Hoefnagel.

Jacob Riis was the third of the 15 children ( one of whom, an orphaned niece, was fostered ) of Niels Edward Riis, a schoolteacher and occasional writer for the local Ribe newspaper, and Carolina Riis ( née Bendsine Lundholme ), a homemaker.

Amelia is encouraged to stay on her chosen path by Grace, her cleaning woman — who is also her niece ( without either of the women being aware of this ), and by Tom Viner, a young doctor who becomes their lodger.

The plot centred around the marriage of Seymour's niece, Glenda ( Sarah Thomas ), to Barry ( Mike Grady ).

Constantinus Heraclius (), known in English as Heraklonas, Heraclonas, or Heracleonas ( 626 – 641 ), was the son of Heraclius and his niece Martina, and was Byzantine Emperor briefly between February and September 641.