The boyars suggested that he take a new wife, and despite much opposition from the clergy, he divorced his barren wife and married Princess Elena Glinskaya, the daughter of a Serbian princess and niece of his friend Michael Glinski.

In his own account: " My father was from a family of Romanian traders from Botoşani, who were later received into the boyar class, while my mother is the daughter of Romanian writer Elena Drăghici, the niece of chronicler Manolache Drăghici [...].

Reportedly, Malaxa and his wife were especially close to the king's mistress, Elena Lupescu, and even became related through marriage ( after Lupescu's nephew, an engineer, married the niece of Malaxa's wife ).

He was freed after his niece Elena Glinskaya married Vasili III in 1526.

Glinski spent 12 years in prison until 1526, when Vasili III married his niece Elena Glinskaya.

Lady Greville, daughter of the late Lord Chancellor Bromley and niece of Sir John Fortescue, was offered twenty pounds by the townsmen to make peace ; ;

The woman in the house where the niece was staying backed up his story and said she left when he did to shop for her dinner.

From that point on he said he went to the post office and then walked leisurely to where his niece was staying, more than a mile away.

On the other side of the ledger is the fact that he did see his niece and the woman with whom she was staying.

Julia was the niece of poet and critic Matthew Arnold and the sister of Mrs. Humphrey Ward.

His mother Atia was the niece of Julius Caesar.

Vipsania Marcella was Agrippa ’ s second child from his second marriage to Augustus ’ first niece and the paternal cousin of Julia the Elder, Claudia Marcella Major.

She was a great-granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, great-niece and adoptive granddaughter of the Emperor Tiberius, sister of the Emperor Caligula, niece and fourth wife of the Emperor Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero.

Regardless, for Agrippina ’ s seduction, it was a help that she had the niece ’ s privilege of kissing and caressing her paternal uncle.

In Roman society, an uncle ( Claudius ) marrying his niece ( Agrippina ) was considered incestuous, and obviously immoral.

The following year he was appointed an examiner of Bible knowledge at Woodhouse Grove School, a Wesleyan academy where, aged 35, he met his future wife, Maria Branwell, the headmaster's niece.

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.

Cecil DeMille's famous niece was named after her.

The lecture that evening was on " Fairy Life ", and at the end of the meeting Polly Wright showed the two fairy photographs taken by her daughter and niece to the speaker.

The General was supposed to bring his niece, Bertha Rheinfeldt, to visit the two, but the niece suddenly died under mysterious circumstances.

The General's niece was immediately taken with Millarca.

After consulting with a priestly doctor who he had specially ordered, the General came to the realization that his niece was being visited by a vampire.

Following Castel ’ s death, she was left to support her mother, a niece, and her two children.

For reasons unknown, Domitian briefly exiled Domitia, and then soon recalled her, either out of love or due to rumours that he was carrying on a relationship with his niece Julia Flavia.

The murder itself was carried out by a freedman of Parthenius named Maximus, and a steward of Domitian's niece Flavia Domitilla, named Stephanus.

His body was carried away on a common bier, and unceremoniously cremated by his nurse Phyllis, who later mingled the ashes with those of his niece Julia, at the Flavian temple.

From 1905 to 1906, he studied at Paris under Paul Passy, who was one of the founders of the International Phonetic Association, and in 1911 married Passy's niece Cyrille Motte.

McInnis, who was born in 1898, was survived by two nephews and a niece after her death in 1979.

Aristotle married Hermias's adoptive daughter ( or niece ) Pythias.

In 1475 he married his niece Joanna, La Beltraneja, whom he considered the legitimate heir to the crown.

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 February 1215, Andrew married Yolanda, the niece of Henry I, the Emperor of Constantinople.

The Act of Settlement provided that the throne would pass to the Electress Sophia of Hanover – a granddaughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England, niece of Charles I of Scotland and England – and her Protestant descendants who had not married a Roman Catholic ; those who were Roman Catholic, and those who married a Roman Catholic, were barred from ascending the throne " for ever ".

Dale then married his last wife, Teresa Houston ( niece of NASCAR driver Tommy Houston ) in 1982, who gave birth to their daughter, Taylor Nicole in 1988.

In 1472, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor, Sophia Palaiologina, married Ivan III, grand prince of Moscow, who began championing the idea of Russia being the successor to the Byzantine Empire.

Hadrian ’ s elder sister and only sibling was Aelia Domitia Paulina, married with the triple consul Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus, his niece was Julia Serviana Paulina and his great-nephew was Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator, from Barcino ( Barcelona ).

In Ancient Greece, Spartan King Leonidas I, hero of the legendary Battle of Thermopylae, was married to his niece Gorgo, daughter of his half-brother Cleomenes I. Greek law allowed marriage between a brother and sister if they had different mothers.

He was succeeded by Justin II, who was the son of his sister Vigilantia, and married to Sophia, the niece of Empress Theodora.

In order to bolster the defences of the kingdom against the growing strength of the Muslims, Baldwin III made the first direct alliance with the Byzantine Empire, by marrying Theodora Comnena, a niece of emperor Manuel ; Manuel married Baldwin's cousin Maria.

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 1900, he married Jeannie Gobillard, a friend of Stéphane Mallarmé's family, who was also a niece of the painter, Berthe Morisot.

Henceforth the papal policy towards France became more friendly, and somewhat later the Barberini were rehabilitated when the son of Taddeo Barberini, Maffeo Barberini, married Olimpia Giustiniani, a niece of Innocent X.

* His niece Lucy Grymes married Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson Jr.

Ivan III married Sophia Palaiologina, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor Constantine XI, and made the Byzantine double-headed eagle his own, and eventually Russian, coat-of-arms.

Waltheof was married to William's niece Judith, daughter of Adelaide, and a marriage between Edwin and one of William's daughters was proposed.

William Tyndale's niece was Margaret Tyndale who married Rowland Taylor " The Martyr ".

The Aeacids allied themselves with the increasingly powerful kingdom of Macedon, in part against the common threat of Illyrian raids, and in 359 BC the Molossian princess Olympias, niece of Arybbas of Epirus, married King Philip II of Macedon.

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

Stephen, who was baptized by Bishop Adalbert of Prague, married Gisela, the daughter of Bavarian Duke Henry II and distant niece of Otto III.

Among other younger members were Lytton ’ s niece the writer Julia Strachey, and the diarist Frances Partridge who had married into Lytton Strachey ’ s ménage in the 1930s.

In what has been called a coup d ' état, the Cardinal of Lorraine and the Duke of Guise — whose niece, Mary, Queen of Scots, had married Francis the year before — seized power the day after Henry II's death and quickly moved themselves into the Louvre with the young couple.