His widow Maria Bissell Hotchkiss founded the Hotchkiss Library in Sharon in her husband's memory.

Maria H. ( Bissell ) Hotchkiss founded the school in 1891 to prepare young men for Yale University.

* Maria Bissell Hotchkiss ( 1827 – 1901 ), wife of Benjamin B. Hotchkiss and founder of The Hotchkiss School and Hotchkiss Library

He was married to Maria Bissell Hotchkiss, who founded the Hotchkiss Library in Sharon in her husband's memory, as well as the Hotchkiss School at Lakeville, Connecticut.

Maria H. ( Bissell ) Hotchkiss ( 1827 – 1901 ) was the wife of U. S. engineer Benjamin B. Hotchkiss.

The Hotchkiss School, founded by his widow Maria Bissell Hotchkiss in 1891, is located in Lakeville.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

Alfons Maria Jakob ( 2 July 1884, Aschaffenburg / Bavaria – 17 October 1931, Hamburg ) was a German neurologist with important contributions on neuropathology.

Alfons Maria Jakob was the son of a shopkeeper.

It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, designed largely by Josep Maria Jujol, who also created some of the plaster ceilings.

As a literary game when Latin was the common property of the literate, Latin anagrams were prominent: two examples are the change of " Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum " ( Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord with you ) into " Virgo serena, pia, munda et immaculata " ( Serene virgin, pious, clean and spotless ), and the anagrammatic answer to Pilate's question, " Quid est veritas?

He was married twice, to Valide Sultan Mahfiruze Hatice Sultan, originally named Maria, a Greek, mother of Osman II, and to Valide Sultan Kadinefendi Kösem Sultan or Mahpeyker, originally named Anastasia, a Greek, mother of Murad IV and Ibrahim I.

Agnes Maria of Andechs-Merania ( died 1201 ), queen of France, was the daughter of Bertold IV ( died 1204 ), who was Count of Andechs, a castle and territory near Ammersee, Bavaria and from 1183 duke of Merania ( Istria ).

Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov was born on 10 March 1845 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the second son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his wife Maria Alexandrovna ( Marie of Hesse ).

Even when this elder brother first displayed symptoms of delicate health, the notion that he might die young was never taken seriously, and he was betrothed to the Princess Maria Feodorovna ( Dagmar of Denmark ).

The mother of Alexios, Anna Dalassena, was to play a prominent role in this coup d ' état of 1081, along with the current empress, Maria of Alania.

Furthermore, to aid the conspiracy Maria had adopted Alexios as her son, though she was only five years older than he Maria was persuaded to do so on the advice of her own " Alans " and her eunuchs, who had been instigated to do his by Isaac Komnenos.

By secretly giving inside information to the Komnenoi, Maria was an invaluable ally.

During this time, Alexios was rumored to be the lover of Empress Maria of Alania, the daughter of King Bagrat IV of Georgia, who had been successively married to Michael VII Doukas and his successor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, renowned for her beauty.

Alexios arranged for Maria to stay on the palace grounds, and it was thought that Alexios was considering marrying the erstwhile empress.

Alexios became estranged from Maria, who was stripped of her imperial title and retired to a monastery, and Constantine Doukas was deprived of his status as co-emperor.

Alexios II Komnenos or Alexius II Comnenus () ( 10 September 1169 – 24 September 1183, Constantinople ), Byzantine emperor ( 1180 – 1183 ), was the son of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and Maria, daughter of Raymond, prince of Antioch.

Among his collaborators was Giovanni Maria Butteri and his main pupil was Giovanni Bizzelli.

His widow, Maria Elena Santiago, attended, as did Phil Everly, Peter Asher, Priscilla Presley and actor Gary Busey, who played Holly in The Buddy Holly Story.

Carla's fiancee Tony discovered the affair and subsequently had Liam killed in a hit-and-run in October, leaving his pregnant widow Maria distraught.

In January 1768, Mesmer married Anna Maria von Posch, a wealthy widow, and established himself as a physician in the Austrian capital Vienna.

* On January 5, 1172, Donna Berta di Bernardo, a widow and resident of the house of dell ' Opera di Santa Maria, bequeathed sixty soldi to the Opera Campanilis petrarum Sancte Marie.

Most descriptions of her baptism stress that the infant was carried ahead of her cousins, Archduchesses Maria Josepha and Maria Amalia, the daughters of Charles VI's elder brother and predecessor, Joseph I, before the eyes of Joseph's widow, Empress Wilhelmine Amalia.

The works best known to English speakers are three great orations delivered at the funerals of Queen Henrietta Maria, widow of Charles I of England ( 1669 ), her daughter, Henriette, Duchess of Orléans ( 1670 ), and the outstanding soldier le Grand Condé ( 1687 ).

The controversies surrounding his conduct told on his health and, on 29 August 1869, Hunt died of " inflammation of the brain " leaving a widow, Henrietta Maria, and five children.

After his coronation, in 1451, Constantine XI sent a commission under George Sphrantzes asking Mara Branković, daughter of the Serbian Despot Đurađ Branković and Byzantine princess Irene Kantakouzene, by then the widow of Murad II, to marry him ( Maria had been allowed to return to her parents in Serbia after the death of Murad ).

In 1766, he married Maria Elizabeth Colomb, the widow of Baron von Hollwede, and they had two sons.

After Alfonso's death, his widow Maria had Eleanor arrested and later killed.

In 1842 Malmaison was purchased by Maria Christina, widow of King Ferdinand VII of Spain ; she lived there with her second husband Agustín Fernando Muñoz, 1st Duke of Riánsares.

Following the King's execution in 1649, the manor passed rapidly through various parliamentarian ownerships including Leeds MP Adam Baynes and civil war general John Lambert but, following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, was back in the ownership of Henrietta Maria ( now Charles I's widow and mother of the new King, Charles II ).

Amalric's widow ( Isabella's mother ) Maria Comnena had married Balian of Ibelin, and Raymond attempted to regain influence with a project to marry Sibylla to Balian's older brother Baldwin of Ibelin.

In the same year, following the death of Carl Maria von Weber, Weber's widow asked Meyerbeer to complete her husband's unfinished comic opera Die drei Pintos.

The Duke of Calabria died the same year his youngest daughter Maria was born, leaving behind a pregnant widow.

* The illegitimate son of Maria Anna of Neuburg, the widow of Charles II of Spain

Later, during an interview on the same magazine, Jango's widow, Maria Teresa Fontela Goulart, revealed documents from the Uruguayan government which reinforces her complaints that her family was being monitored.

His widow, Anna Maria Luisa, returned to Florence in October 1717.

Dowager Grand Princess Violante Beatrice, her brother Ferdinando's widow, and Anna Maria Luisa did not enjoy an amiable relationship.

His sister, Anna Maria Luisa de ' Medici, the Electress Palatine, married him to Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, a wealthy widow, in 1697.

She put forward Anna Maria Franziska, her brother-in-law's widow and potential heiress of the Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg.

Anna Maria Franziska was unpredictable and prone to outbursts of rage, she held " conversations in the stables with the horses " and would rather have remained a widow than have been married again.