Gustavus was married to Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, the daughter of John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, and chose the Prussian city of Elbing as the base for his operations in Germany.

As his sister Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg was queen of Sweden, George William had to maneuver between requests of assistance from his Protestant brother-in-law King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his own Protestant counsellors on one side and his Catholic chancellor Count Adam von Schwarzenberg on the other.

* Eleonora Gonzaga ( 31 December 1493 – 13 February 1570 ), married Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, by whom she had issue.

* Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg ( 11 November 1599 – 28 March 1655 ).

Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg ( 11 November 1599 – 28 March 1655 ) was a German princess and queen consort of Sweden.

In the year 1620, Maria Eleonora married the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus with her mother's consent, but against the will of her brother George William, Elector of Brandenburg, who has just succeeded her father.

He received reports with the most flattering descriptions of the physical and mental qualities of the beautiful 17-year-old princess Maria Eleonora.

Maria Eleonora had additional suitors in the young William of Orange, Wladislaw Vasa of Poland, Adolph Friedrich of Mecklenburg and even the future Charles I of England.

The Electress Dowager maintained an attitude of reserve and even refused to grant the Swedish king a personal meeting with Maria Eleonora.

After plighting his troth to Maria Eleonora, Gustavus Adolphus hurried back to Sweden to make arrangements for the reception of his bride.

She sent Maria Eleonora to territory outside of George William's reach and concluded the marriage negotiations herself.

Anna of Prussia provided herself with a selection of objects of value from the exchequer before she joined Maria Eleonora in Brunswick.

Maria Eleonora had a definite liking for entertainment and sweetmeats, and she soon succumbed to the current fashionable craze for buffoons and dwarfs.

Within six months of their marriage, Gustavus Adolphus left to command the siege of Riga, leaving Maria Eleonora in the early stages of her first pregnancy.

Her emotional life lacked balance, and everything Maria Eleonora undertook on her own initiative needed careful watching.

He continued to be in love with Ebba Brahe their entire marriage, but it does not appear that Maria Eleonora noticed this.

In the autumn of 1623 Maria Eleonora gave birth to a daughter, but the baby died the next year.

In the autumn Maria Eleonora was pregnant for a third time.

By April, Maria Eleonora found she was again pregnant.

Shortly after the birth, Maria Eleonora was in no condition to be told the truth about the baby's sex, and the king and court waited several days before breaking the news to her.

In the year after Christina's birth, Maria Eleonora was described as being in a state of hysteria owing to her husband's absences.

In 1670 he was married to Eleonora Maria of Austria ( 1653-1697 ), daughter of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his third wife Eleonora Gonzaga.

In 1945 he married Eleonora Chiavarelli ( 1915 – 2010 ), with whom he had four children: Maria Fida ( born 1946 ), Agnese ( 1952 ), Anna and Giovanni ( 1958 ).

After Maria tells Carla Connor, Carla is furious and tries to get Maria to go to the police, however Maria wants to forget all about it and tells Carla to continue doing business with Frank to save the factory.

Neither Maria nor her advisers were supportive of these endeavours, however.

Superimposed on this classical picture, however, are quantum-mechanical effects, which can be described using the nuclear shell model, developed in large part by Maria Goeppert-Mayer.

Before they reached the city, however, the remains were seized by some citizens of Ravenna and buried there in the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda, the burial place of Theodoric the Great.

The political, administrative and economic reforms of the Habsburg rulers Maria Theresa of Austria and Joseph II improved the economic situation of the peasantry, and were well received by the emerging bourgeoisie, which was however still weak.

He had himself already secretly married Maria Fitzherbert ; however, his marriage to Fitzherbert violated the Royal Marriages Act 1772 and thus was not legally valid.

The pass however was not more than a trackway for mule trains and carts until a carriage road was laid out in 1777 at the behest of Empress Maria Theresa.

Author Michael Occleshaw speculated that a woman named Larissa Tudor might have been Tatiana ; however, all of the Romanovs, including Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, were murdered by the Bolshevik assassination squad.

Russian scientists contested this conclusion, however, claiming that it was the body of Maria that was missing.

The first Huguenot to arrive at the Cape of Good Hope was however Maria de la Queillerie, wife of commander Jan van Riebeeck ( and daughter of a Huguenot church minister ), who arrived on 6 April 1652 to establish a settlement at what is today Cape Town.

He was reluctant to re-marry ; however, for political reasons, he married Maria Josepha of Bavaria in 1765.

Despite this unfortunate beginning however, over the course of several books he warms to her, and becomes at least a good, if not perfect, husband to her and their first two children, also named Horatio and Maria.

For the most part, however, it proved to be a successful union for forty years, and produced four children — Alexios Komnenos, John Doukas, Irene Doukaina, and Maria Bryennaina Komnene.

During the interregnum that followed, Ottavio again tried to induce the governor of Parma to give up the city to him, but met with no better success ; however, on the election of Giovanni Maria Giocchi to the papacy as Julius III, the duchy was conferred on him in 1551.

The doctrines of Ariosophy strongly resemble Nazism in important points ( e. g. racism ), however, the only cases of direct influences that Goodrick-Clarke could find were the ones of Rudolf von Sebottendorf ( and the Thule Society ) and Karl Maria Wiligut.

The Broadway musical and later film The Sound of Music features a scene where the protagonists Maria and Captain von Trapp dance a ländler ; however, it is not a traditional but a choreographed form.

He is commonly said to have been buried in the church now called S. Francesca Romana in Florence, but his tomb vanished ; there is evidence, however, that he may be buried in the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, in Rome, the place of his death.

Peter, however, was committed to continuing as Emperor of Brazil and therefore abdicated the crown of Portugal in favor of his daughter, Infanta Maria da Gloria.

Durham, however, confides in Maria that he does not believe the insectoid creatures will ever seriously consider the concept of a creator and intends to use Maria's slice of the universe's processing power ( as a founder of the world she was given de facto control of a continuously-growing zone of the processor network as well ) to make forbidden first contact with the life of Planet Lambert.

Ultimately, however, Maria convinces him to change his mind ( literally reconfiguring it to desire escape ) and together they leave, pledging to discover the underlying rules that governed the Autoverse's takeover of Permutation City.

He was one of seven children born to Dionisio Morales Choque and Maria Mamani ; however, only Morales and two of his siblings, Esther and Hugo, survived past childhood.

" Maria, however, declines to give Charles her hand, citing his supposed involvement with Lady Sneerwell.