Despite an attested happy family life ( the king loved his daughters and enjoyed playing with them and taking them on nature walks ), Joseph I had a favourite mistress: Teresa Leonor, wife of Luis Bernardo, heir of the Távora family.

Luis Bernardo's parents, Marchioness Leonor of Távora and her husband, Francisco Assis, Count of Alvor and former viceroy of India, headed one of the most powerful families in the kingdom.

In the following weeks the Marchioness Leonor of Távora, her husband the Count of Alvor, and all of their sons, daughters and grandchildren were imprisoned.

Gabriel Malagrida, the Jesuit confessor of Leonor of Távora, was also arrested.

Félix was painted by many artists, including Diego Rivera, Leonor Fini, Leonora Carrington, Stanislao Lepri, Bridget Tichenor and Antoine Tzapoff.

Pedro de Alvarado's mother was Diego's second wife, Leonor de Contreras y Gutiérrez de Trejo.

Manuel succeeded in 1495 his first cousin King John II of Portugal, who was also his brother-in-law, being married to Manuel's sister, Leonor.

The assumption of the regency by the queen was badly received in many Portuguese cities ; Leonor was considered a treasonous interloper who intended to usurp the Portuguese crown for Castile and end Portugal's independence.

In Lisbon, Alvaro Pais proposed that he and Leonor marry and hold the regency together, but Leonor declined ; upon the news of the coming of the Castilian king, the Master of Aviz was elected Regent and Defender of the Realm on 16 December 1383, as an advocate for the rights of the queen's son, the Infante Juan.

Since Leonor had conspired against John the Infante, she was sent to the monastery of Tordesillas.

In 1976, Gephardt was elected to Congress from the St. Louis-based 3rd District, succeeding 24-year incumbent Leonor Sullivan.

José Julián Martí Pérez was born on January 28, 1853, in Havana, at 41 Paula St., to a Spanish Valencian father, Mariano Martí Navarro, and Leonor Pérez Cabrera, a native of the Canary Islands.

Martí was the elder brother to seven sisters: Leonor, Mariana, Maria de Carmen, Maria de Pilar, Rita Amelia, Antonia and Dolores.

Their daughter Leonor de Mendoza married Pedro Ruiz de Alarcón who was described as an hidalgo.

Eleanor of England ( known in Castilian as Leonor ) ( 13 October 1162 – 31 October 1214 ) was Queen of Castile and Toledo as wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile.

Barbara of Portugal ( Maria Madalena Bárbara Xavier Leonor Teresa Antónia Josefa ; 4 December 1711 – 27 August 1758 ) was an Infanta of Portugal and later Queen of Spain as wife of Ferdinand VI of Spain.

The Princess was baptised Maria Madalena Bárbara Xavier Leonor Teresa Antónia Josefa, her names honouring a number of saints and relatives.

She enjoyed another success with Tu o Nadie ( 1985 ), and in 1988 she was cast in the dual role of Leonor de Santiago and Diana Salazar in the soap-opera El Extraño Retorno de Diana Salazar ( 1988 ), written by Carlos Olmos.

His work was taken up by German biochemist Leonor Michaelis and Canadian physician Maud Menten who investigated the kinetics of an enzymatic reaction mechanism, invertase, that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose.

It was built around the year 1500 by order of Queen Leonor.

Beatrice (; ; Coimbra, 7 – 13 February 1373 – c. 1420, unknown local, Castile ) was the only surviving child of King Ferdinand I of Portugal and his wife, Leonor Telles de Menezes.

The only child of his marriage with Leonor Telles de Menezes was a girl, Princess Beatrice of Portugal.

His mother, Doña Leonor de la Vega, was a wealthy heiress belonging to the House of de la Vega.

Afonso was the only son and heir of king John II of Portugal by his marriage with Leonor of Viseu, princess of Portugal.

Mariana Alcoforado was born in Beja, daughter of landed proprietor of Alentejo Francisco da Cunha Alcoforado, born at Cortiços, Macedo de Cavaleiros, and first wife Leonor Mendes.

On 14 August 1977 Susana Leonor Siver and her partner Marcelo Carlos Reinhold, both Montoneros fighters, were kidnapped from Reinold's mother home along with a friend by a fifteen-strong naval intelligence team and taken to the ESMA naval detention camp.

From then onwards, Leonor ruled with her lover, João Fernandes Andeiro, second Count of Ourém, also called " Conde Andeiro ", a Galician who had been Fernando's chancellor, which angered the nobility and the lower classes.

Queen Leonor fled with the court of Lisbon and took refuge in Alenquer, the property of the queens of Portugal.

* Rainha ( roundabout with statue of Queen Leonor )

* Rainha ( roundabout with statue of Queen Leonor )

* Rainha ( roundabout with statue of Queen Leonor )

After the death of King Fernando, the last of the First Dynasty, in 1383, power fell on the regent Queen Leonor, hated by the people, and her daughter Beatrice, married to the Castilian King Juan I. Fernando's half-brother John, Master of Aviz, led a revolution against Queen and the Castilian King, defeating them with a smaller army in the battle of Aljubarrota.

In 1513, with the support of Queen Leonor, monks from the Order of São Jerónimo established a settlement on the island to offer assistance to navigation and victims of frequent shipwrecks.

The Arrival of D. Leonor with the Relics of Santa Auta at Madre de Deus by Cristóvão de Figueiredo.

In 1912 she moved to Berlin where she worked with Leonor Michaelis, obtaining a Ph. D. in 1916.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Asturias officially opened in June 2002 to his new residence, located at a few dozen metres from the Palace of Zarzuela, and where he lives today with his wife Letizia Ortiz and daughters the infantas Leonor and Sofía.

The relationship between Maria and Alfonso was unhappy: from 1327 before their marriage, Alfonso had a relationship with Leonor Núñez de Guzmán.

In 1335, Maria returned to her father in Évora, who demanded that Alfonso separated from Leonor by use of alliances with the Pope, the Muslims and rebels inside Castile, and finally by an invasion.

In 1946, this became a prominent and traditional part of the vineyard's image, with labels created by great painters and sculptors such as Jean Cocteau, Leonor Fini, Henry Moore, Marie Laurencin, Georges Braque, Salvador Dalí, Jacques Villon, Pierre Alechinsky, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, César, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Andy Warhol, and other notables.

Married in Alcântara, Lisbon, on 20 November 1976 to Maria Leonor de Campos de Andrada Soares de Albergaria, born in Lisbon on 18 April 1949, Licentiate in Roman Philology at the University of Lisbon, daughter of João José Cabral Soares de Albergaria, 3rd Viscount ( formerly Barons ) da Torre de Moncorvo ( with a Coat of arms of de Morais and Sarmento ) and Representative of the Title of Viscount de Morais Sarmento, a Mechanical Engineer, and wife Maria Júlia Pellen de Campos de Andrada, of the Family of the former Counters of the Counts of the Realm and House, he had three sons:

His mother was a most powerful and wealthy lady, Leonor de Zúñiga y Sotomayor, herself daughter of a powerful duchess, Teresa de Zúñiga, 2nd marchioness of Ayamonte, 3rd duchess of Béjar, 4th countess of Bañares, 2nd marchioness of Gibraleón, so it was her name Zúñiga, the one to be passed to the family, as she was married to a " Sotomayor " of a less endowed with nobility titles, county of Belalcázar, something by no means unique in the High Spanish Nobility of the time.

* Donizetti: La Favorite ( 2001 ) -- CD As Leonor with Viotti & Munich Radio Orchestra

Leonor Michaelis ( January 16, 1875 – October 8, 1949 ) was a German biochemist, physical chemist, and physician, known primarily for his work with Maud Menten on enzyme kinetics and Michaelis-Menten kinetics in 1913.

The Newcomen Society of the United States began as The Newcomen Society in North America, founded at New York City in 1923 by Leonor F. Loree, then dean of American railroad presidents, together with a group of other prominent business leaders.