Among these was Countess Margaret of Flanders who established the monastery of Lille, while Val-Duchesse at Oudergern near Brussels was built with the wealth of Adelaide of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant ( 1262 ).

On 25 August 1476 in Berlin John married Margaret of Wettin, a daughter of Landgrave William III of Thuringia with Anne of Habsburg, Duchess of Luxembourg.

Joachim ( 1505 – 1571 ), the future elector of Brandenburg, was the eldest son and heir of their current claimant of Luxembourg, Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg ( 1484 – 1535 ), the eldest son and heir of the late Margaret of Thuringia ( 1449 – 1501 ), Dowager Electress of Brandenburg, herself the eldest daughter and heiress of Anna, Duchess of Luxembourg and William of Saxony, Landgrave of Thuringia.

In June 1476, he started his studies at the University of Leuven, where he pursued philosophy, theology and Canon Law, due to a scholarship granted by Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy, becoming a Doctor of Theology in 1491, Dean of St. Peter's and vice-chancellor of the university.

In 1784, with the assistance of his niece, Mary, he arranged a private sale to Margaret Cavendish-Harley, widow of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland and so dowager Duchess of Portland.

At the time of the death of his father and older brother Edmund, Earl of Rutland at the Battle of Wakefield, Richard, who was eight years old, was sent by his mother, the Duchess of York to the Low Countries, beyond the reach of Henry VI's vengeful Queen, Margaret of Anjou.

** Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle ( d. 1673 )

* July 3 – Perkin Warbeck's troops land in Kent, in support of his claim to the English crown, backed by Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy.

* June 5 – Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry ( d. 1574 )

* March 24 – Margaret Plantagenet, Duchess of Norfolk

The Duchess of York originally wanted the names Ann Margaret, as she explained to Queen Mary in a letter: " I am very anxious to call her Ann Margaret, as I think Ann of York sounds pretty, & Elizabeth and Ann go so well together.

In Ives's view this would also be around the minimum age that a girl could be a Maid of Honour, as Anne was to the regent, Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy.

* October 29 – Margaret, Duchess of Austria ( b. c. 1204 )

The German Emperor Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse, Duke Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Duke Ernst August of Brunswick were Edward's nephews ; Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain, Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, Crown Princess Marie of Romania, Crown Princess Sophia of Greece, Empress Alexandra of Russia, Grand Duchess Alexandra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Duchess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen were his nieces ; Haakon VII of Norway was both his nephew by marriage and his son-in-law ; George I of Greece and Frederick VIII of Denmark were his brothers-in-law ; Albert I of Belgium, Charles I and Manuel II of Portugal, and Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria were his second cousins.

As Duchess of York, she – along with her husband and their two daughters Elizabeth and Margaret – embodied traditional ideas of family and public service.

The Duke and Duchess of York had two children: Elizabeth ( called " Lilibet " by the family ), and Margaret.

Four of her Árpád descendants were Saints: Elisabeth, Landgravine of Thuringia, Kinga, Duchess of Kraków and Princess Margaret of Hungary, Irene of Hungary, Saint of Eastern Orthodox Church, and one was Beatificated like her: Jolanta Helena, Duchess of Greater Poland.

Born in the Duchy of Lorraine, into the House of Valois-Anjou, Margaret was the second eldest daughter of René I of Naples and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine.

Margaret was the second eldest daughter of René of Anjou and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine.

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.

Lincoln fled the English court on 19 March 1487 and went to the court of Mechelen ( Malines ) and his aunt, Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy.

He fled to Burgundy, where Warwick's aunt Margaret of York, the Dowager Duchess of Burgundy, kept her court.

When Prince Alexander died on 28 January 1284, leaving only the king's granddaughter Margaret living out of his descendants, Alexander III summoned all thirteen Earls of Scotland, twenty-four barons and the heads of the three main Gaelic kindreds of the West, Alexander of Argyll, Aonghas Mór of Islay and Alan MacRuari of Garmoran.

The congregation of 1, 200 included Prince Michael of Kent, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, Sir John Mills, Sir Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard, Sir David Frost, Joanna Lumley, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Lord Olivier.

The better known of his lovers included cabaret singer Florence Mills, banking heiress Poppy Baring, socialite Margaret Whigham ( later Duchess of Argyll and involved in a notoriously scandalous divorce case ), Barbara Cartland ( who believed him to be the father of her daughter Raine McCorquodale ) and musical star Jessie Matthews.

# REDIRECT Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll

On 22 March 1951, Margaret became the third wife of Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll.

Margaret, Duchess of Argyll appearing on After Dark ( TV series ) | After Dark in 1988

Margaret, sometime Duchess of Argyll, died in penury in 1993 after a bad fall in the nursing home where she spent her last years.

* ( Ethel ) Margaret Campbell ( née Whigham ), Duchess of Argyll ( 1912-1993 ), 3rd wife of Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll Sitter associated with 19 portraits

Margaret, Duchess of Argyll

It has long been speculated that he may have been the ' headless man ' whose identity was concealed during the ( then considered ) scandalous divorce trial of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll in 1963.

* Margaret, Duchess of Argyll ( 1912 – 1993 )

* Margaret, Duchess of Argyll ( 1912 – 1993 ), wife of the 11th Duke

Argyll married, secondly, Lady Margaret Graham, daughter of William Graham, 3rd Earl of Menteith, and Margaret Moubray, on 21 April 1541 at the Priory of Inchmahome.

He was the eldest son of Archibald Campbell, 4th Earl of Argyll and his second wife Margaret Graham.

The member of a junior branch of Clan Campbell, Breadalbane was a descendant of Sir Colin Campbell, 1st of Glenorchy ( d. 1475 ), the son of Duncan Campbell, 1st Lord Campbell by his second wife Margaret Stewart and the half-brother of Archibald Campbell, Master of Campbell, ancestor of the Dukes of Argyll.

Edward Molyneux, art patron Edward James, American socialites such as Mona Williams, Babe Paley, and Bunny Mellon, the playwright Clare Booth Luce, theatre legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, and British socialites such as Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll and the Hon.

* Lady Margaret Douglas ( 1610 – 1678 ), married the 1st Marquess of Argyll and had issue.

He married Mary, daughter of Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland and Isabel Cope on 17 Dec 1657, with whom he had two sons, Duncan, styled Lord Ormelie, who was passed over in the succession due to his " mental incapacity ", and John Campbell, 2nd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland ; he also had a son, Colin by Mary Campbell, widow of George Sinclair, the Earl of Caithness, and daughter of Lady Margaret Douglas and Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, who was the presumed ancestor of Sir Lachlan Campbell, one of the present contestants for the title of Earl of Breadalbane and Holland.

He was born in Islay, in Argyll, Scotland, the son of Samuel Campbell, a physician, and Margaret Campbell ; and was educated at the school in Bowmore.