On November 16, 2008, the Foreign Minister of Ecuador Maria Isabel Salvador met her counterpart, Pranab Mukherjee, with a close relationship in oil and defence between these geographically distant countries high on the agenda.

* The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

* May 19 – Maria Isabel of Portugal, Queen of Spain ( d. 1818 )

They have two daughters: Evelina Maria ( born on July 12, 2002 ) and Giulia Isabel ( born on March 17, 2006 ).

Infanta D. Maria Francisca Isabel Josefa ; Francesco Pavona ; 1739.

Maria was baptized Maria Francisca Isabel Josefa Antónia Gertrudes Rita Joana de Bragança.

Maria Francisca Isabel, Princess of Brazil ; Francisco Vieira de Matos, 1753.

Before his death, the king had nominated his favourite daughter, Isabel Maria, to serve as regent until " the legitimate heir returned to the Kingdom " — but he had failed to specify which of his sons was the legitimate heir: Peter, the liberal Emperor of Brazil, or Miguel, the absolutist exiled prince.

* Dona Isabel Maria of Braganza ( 1894 – 1970 ), married Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis and had issue

* The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters, by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho da Costa, translated by Helen R. Lane, 1973 Doubleday ; Novas Cartas Portuguesas original title ; ISBN 0-385-01853-3.

The city has also a large number of public and private basic and secondary schools, among these some of the best-ranked in the country, like Escola Secundária Infanta D. Maria ( public ), Escola Secundária José Falcão ( public ), " Escola EB2 / 3 Martim de Freitas " ( public ) and Colégio Rainha Santa Isabel ( private ), as well as several kindergartens and nurseries.

His first wife, whom he married when 20, was the Bolivian heiress Maria Isabel Patiño, 17-year-old daughter of tin magnate Antenor Patiño and the 3rd Duchess of Dúrcal, of the Spanish royal family.

Rendered comatose by a cerebral hemorrhage in her seventh month of pregnancy, Maria Isabel Patiño y Goldsmith died in May 1954 ; her only child, Isabel, survived and was delivered by Caesarian section.

Aránzazu ' Arantxa ' Isabel Maria Sánchez Vicario ( born December 18, 1971 in Barcelona, Spain ) is a Spanish former World No. 1 professional tennis player.

In contemporary classical music, notable Portuguese musicians include the pianists Artur Pizarro, Maria João Pires and equeira Costa, and the composers: Fernando Lopes-Graça, Emmanuel Nunes, João Pedro Oliveira, Jorge Peixinho, Constança Capdeville, Clotilde Rosa, Fernando Corrêa de Oliveira, Cláudio Carneyro, Frederico de Freitas, Joly Braga Santos and Isabel Soveral.

* The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters, by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho da Costa, translated by Helen R. Lane, 1973 Doubleday ; Novas Cartas Portuguesas original title ; ISBN 0-385-01853-3.

In the meantime, Carlota Joaquina's daughter, the Infanta Isabel Maria was to be Regent in Portugal instead of Carlota Joaquina, who ordinarily would have held such a post as Queen Dowager.

His second wife ( whom he also divorced ) was Maria João Espírito Santo Bustorff Silva ( born Lisbon, 13 August 1950 ), daughter of António Sérgio Carneiro Bustorff Silva ( born 9 July 1923 ) and wife ( m. 1940 ) Ana Maria da Anunciação de Fátima de Morais Sarmento Cohen do Espírito Santo Silva ( born 1928, Sephardi Jewish on her maternal grandfather's side ), and former wife of José Luís de Castro Caldas ( born 16 April 1941 ), with one son, by whom she has one daughter: Isabel Bustorff Lobo Antunes ( born 1983 ).

Alfonso was the eldest son of Prince Francisco de Asis de Borbón-Dos Sicilias and Queen Isabel II, whose reign was marked by a constant political crisis which had several causes.

* John ( 1331 – 1358 ), Lord of Elche, Biel and Bolsa, married in 1355 to Isabel Núñez de Lara and was killed by order of his cousin Pedro of Castile.

* António da Costa de Albuquerque de Sousa Lara, 2nd Count de Guedes, Vasco de Bettencourt de Faria Machado e Sampaio and Marcelo Olavo Correia de Azevedo, Ascendências Reais de Sua Alteza Real a Senhora Dona Isabel de Herédia Duquesa de Bragança, I, pelos Costados Herédia, Bettencourt e Meneses da Ilha da Madeira " ( Universitária Editora, 1999 )

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**** Isabel de Tolosa Cortés de Moctezuma ( 1568-1619 / 1620 ), Mexican heiress, wife of conqueror and explorer Don Juan de Onate, granddaughter of Hernan Cortés and great-granddaughter of Moctezuma II

In 1528, Isabel de Moctezuma, an heir of Moctezuma II, was married to Alonso de Grado, a Spanish Conquistador.

Ships of the Spanish explorer Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira first sighted Santa Isabel island on 6 February 1568.

In 1561 Luis de León, a Spanish lyric poet and an Augustinian friar, translated the Song of Songs into Spanish for his cousin, Isabel Osorio, a nun who could not read the Latin text, and wrote an accompanying commentary.

Estêvão da Gama married Isabel Sodré, a daughter of João Sodré ( also known as João de Resende ), scion of a well-connected family of English origin.

Vasco da Gama was the third of five sons of Estêvão da Gama and Isabel Sodré-in ( probable ) order of age: Paulo da Gama, João Sodré, Vasco da Gama, Pedro da Gama and Aires da Gama.

# Dona Isabel d ' Ataide da Gama, only daughter, married Ignacio de Noronha, son of the first Count of Linhares.

His cabinet was composed of Lucio Blanco as Interior Minister ; José Vasconcelos as Minister for Public Instruction and Fine Arts ; Valentín Gama as Minister for Public Works ; Felícitos Villarreal as Finance Minister ; José Isabel Robles as Defense Minister ( Guerra y Marina ); Manuel Palafox as Agriculture Minister ; Manuel Chao as Mayor of the Distrito Federal ; Mateo Almanza as Commander of the National Guard ( Guarnición de México ), and Pánfilo Natera as president of the Supreme Military Tribunal.

The first one was the fact that queen Isabel II was a woman, and her father, king Ferdinand VII, had modified the Succession Law in order for her to be queen, excluding his brother Carlos.

The dethroning of queen Isabel II meant a vacuum that was profited by the Bank of New York and some Cubans opposed to the projected extension of the 1837 Abolition Act to finance a Texas style " independence " revolution known as the Cuban 10 Years War ( 1868 – 78 ) lost by the Cubans.

Giraldona was the daughter of Enrique Carlino and his wife, Isabel.

He preferred models he was close to, his brother and the artist Isabel Rawsthorne ( then known as Isabel Delmer ).

This was followed by a unique artistic phase in which his statues of Isabel became stretched out ; her limbs elongated.

Cuitláhuac was ritually married to Moctezuma's eldest daughter, a ten or eleven year old girl who later was called Isabel Moctezuma.

Cuauhtémoc took power in 1520 as successor of Cuitláhuac and was a cousin of the former emperor Moctezuma II, and his young wife, who would later be known as Isabel Moctezuma, was one of Moctezuma's daughters.

On July 24, 1936, the Republican cruiser Méndez Núñez arrived at Santa Isabel ; on its way back to Spain the officers planned to join the rebellion, but the Spanish government, knowing this, ordered the ship to go back to the colony ; on August 14 the Méndez Núñez was back in Fernando Poo, where the sailors took control of her ; on September 21 the ship arrived in Málaga ( Republican Spain ).

Nguema introduced a campaign of ' authenticity ', replacing colonial names with native ones: the capital Santa Isabel became Malabo, the main island of Fernando Po was renamed Masie Nguema Biyogo after himself, and Annobón became Pagalu.

John was made Count of Mortain, was married to the wealthy Isabel of Gloucester, and was given valuable lands in Lancaster and the counties of Cornwall, Derby, Devon, Dorset, Nottingham and Somerset, all with the aim of buying his loyalty to Richard whilst the king was on crusade.

John's first wife, Isabel, Countess of Gloucester, was released from imprisonment in 1214 ; she remarried twice, and died in 1217.

In the government the more radically right-wing factions quickly took control ; Isabel Perón, President since Juan Perón's death, was essentially a figurehead under the influence of Rega.

On 24 March 1976 Isabel Perón was ousted and a military junta installed, led by General Jorge Rafael Videla.

Her father, Eugene Muse Mitchell, was an attorney, and her mother, Mary Isabel " May Belle " ( or " Maybelle ") Stephens, was a suffragist.