Friends of the young Alexios II now tried to form a party against the empress mother and the prōtosebastos ; Alexios II's half-sister Maria, wife of Caesar John ( Renier of Montferrat ), stirred up riots in the streets of the capital.

He was believed to have arranged the poisoning of Alexios II's elder sister Maria the Porphyrogenita and her husband Renier of Montferrat, although Maria herself had encouraged him to intervene.

* Renier of Montferrat ( the Caesar John ), Italian husband of Maria Comnena ( poisoned ) ( b. 1162 )

In 1179, the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus offered his daughter Maria the Porphyrogenita as a bride to one of the sons of William V. Since Boniface, like his older brother Conrad, was already married, and Frederick was a priest, the youngest brother, Renier, married her instead, only to be murdered along with her during the usurpation of Andronicus.

Late 13th and 14th century sources suggest that Boniface based his claim to Thessalonica on the statement that his younger brother Renier had been granted Thessalonica on his marriage to Maria Komnene in 1180.

Late 13th and 14th century sources suggest that Boniface based his claim to Thessalonica on the statement that his younger brother Renier had been granted Thessalonica on his marriage to Maria Komnene in 1180.

The leaders of the opposition were her stepdaughter, the porphyrogenita Maria Komnene and her husband, the Caesar Renier of Montferrat, though himself a fellow Latin.

After gaining control of the city, he had the Porphyrogenita and Renier poisoned, and then had Empress Maria arrested and imprisoned in the monastery of St. Diomedes or in a prison nearby.

This ceremony came approximately one month after the wedding of Alexios ' half-sister Maria Porphyrogenita to Renier of Montferrat, conducted by the Patriarch of Constantinople, Theodosios.

He is believed to have arranged the deaths by poisoning of Maria Porphyrogenita and her husband Renier ; he certainly imprisoned, and soon afterwards executed, Maria of Antioch.

It was Manuel who suggested the marriage of his daughter Maria the Porphyrogenita to a son of William V. Since Conrad and Boniface were already married, and Frederick was in the priesthood, the only eligible son was the youngest, 17-year-old Renier.

This, combined with her Latin-friendly views, triggered a plot to end the regency ( or, as some describe it, to overthrow the Emperor ) and give power to Maria and Renier.

Maria and Renier sought refuge in the Hagia Sofia cathedral with some 150 of their followers.

Renier and Maria were later killed during the usurpation of Andronikos, and the family rebuilt ties with Barbarossa.

# Maria Comnena ( 1152 – 1182 ), ( not to be confused with the Queen of Jerusalem by that name who was a relative ) who married Renier of Montferrat.

Others who gained the title unofficially by marrying a tsar were Elizabeth Alexeevna, Alexandra Fyodorovna ( Charlotte of Prussia ), Maria Alexandrovna, Maria Fyodorovna, and Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz, who became Tsaritsa of Bulgaria following her marriage to Tsar Ferdinand.

When the War of the Austrian Succession approached, his sympathies were entirely with Maria Theresa -- mainly on the ground that the fall of the house of Austria would dangerously increase the power of France, even if she gained no accession of territory.

Among the noted musical figures born in the state are Dorival Caymmi ; João Gilberto ; Gilberto Gil, the former ( 2003 – 2008 ) country's Minister of Culture ; Caetano Veloso and his sister Maria Bethânia ( Gil and Veloso being the founders of the Tropicália movement ( a native adaptation of the hippie movement ) of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which ultimate gained international recognition ); Gal Costa ; Luis Caldas ; Sara Jane ; Daniela Mercury ; Ivete Sangalo ; Carlinhos Brown and Margareth Menezes.

Maria Theresa, however, still gained the throne of Hungary ; the Hungarian Parliament voted its own Pragmatic Sanction in 1723 in which the Kingdom of Hungary accepted female inheritance supporting her to become queen of Hungary.

She is best known for her performance as Maria in the Bulgarian film classic The Goat Horn ( 1972 ), for which she gained a broad critical acclaim.

Henry II of Champagne died in 1197, from this marriage Maria had gained three half-sisters.

Maria Montez ( June 6, 1912 – September 7, 1951 ) was a Dominican-born motion picture actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s as an exotic beauty starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume adventure films.

The Ethiopian coinage gained acceptance only gradually, and Bank of Abyssinia imported Maria Theresa thalers.

Watros appeared as Erin Fitzpatrick from Santa Maria California on Titus from 2000 to 2002 and gained recognition as a comedic actress, playing the real-life fiancée of the title character.

The leisure thus gained was devoted to a thoroughly congenial theme, the Vision of St Francis, a wall-painting 6. 5 m long, finished in 1830, for the Porziuncola in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli near Assisi.

Pope Benedict XII turned the city and its territory over to Lippo II Alidosi with the title of pontifical vicar, the power remaining in the family Alidosi until 1424, when the condottiero Angelo della Pergola, " capitano " for Filippo Maria Visconti, gained the supremacy ( see also Wars in Lombardy ).

Bjelovar is not an ancient town ; it was first mentioned in 1413 and only gained importance when a new fort was built there in 1756, at the command of the Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa.

This year, she also gained entry into several WTA tournaments, most notably coming through qualifying at Doha by defeating Yuliana Fedak, Ľubomíra Kurhajcová and Maria Sánchez Lorenzo, only to lose in the deciding set of her opening round match against Nicole Pratt ; and at the US Open after a narrow victory over Selima Sfar, only to lose to Saori Obata at the first hurdle in the main draw.

However, he only gained real recognition for his performance in Maria Chapdelaine, a 1934 production directed by Julien Duvivier.

He was born to Francesco Sforza, a popular condottiero and ally of Cosimo de ' Medici who had gained the Duchy of Milan, and Bianca Maria Visconti.

A tragedy, Maria Padilla ( 1838 ), gained him admission to the Académie française in 1841.

He won La Gran Cruz de María Cristina (" Grand Cross of Maria Cristina ") for his command of troops in the Philippines in 1895, < nowiki > display </ nowiki > ing a cold and brutal approach which would surface prominently in Cuba, where he invented ' hamleting ' and gained the sobriquet " The Butcher ".

Pursuant to Empress Maria Theresa's instructions, Maria Carolina gained Ferdinand's trust by feigning interest in his favourite activiy — hunting.

Her marble portrait busts from this period gained her prominence and public commissions, including the decorative program for the high altar of Santa Maria del Baraccano in Bologna.

This crater gained its title from the birth name of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, the Polish-born French scientist.

He received his early education from his aunt, Helen Maria Williams, an Englishwoman, who at the close of the 18th century gained a reputation by various translations and by her Letters from France.

She first gained fame when she won an Olivier Award for her one-woman cabaret, Maria Friedman By Special Arrangement and another Olivier Award starring in Stephen Sondheim's Passion in 1996, and later became one of the main leading ladies on the London Stage.

As a measure intended to keep the support of the Doukai, Alexios restored Constantine Doukas, the young son of Michael VII and Maria, as co-emperor and a little later betrothed him to his own first-born daughter Anna, who moved into the Mangana Palace with her fiancé and his mother.

" Cleveland admitted to paying child support in 1874 to Maria Crofts Halpin, the woman who claimed he fathered her child named Oscar Folsom Cleveland.

Amalric cemented his alliance with Manuel by marrying Manuel's niece Maria Komnene in 1167, and an embassy led by William of Tyre was sent to Constantinople to negotiate a military expedition, but in 1168 Amalric pillaged Bilbeis without waiting for the naval support promised by Manuel.

* September 12 – Francis I is elected Holy Roman Emperor with the support of his wife, Maria Theresia of Austria.

Maria knew that she needed the support of the liberals to oppose Don Carlos so she granted a constitution in 1834.

# The Quadruple Alliance of April 1834 was formed by the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Portugal to support queen Isabella II of Spain against her uncle Don Carlos, Count of Molina, who claimed the Spanish throne under the succession law of 1714-1830, and queen Maria II of Portugal ( represented by her father Pedro, 18th Duke of Braganza, former Emperor of Brazil and King of Portugal ) against her uncle Miguel of Portugal, who proclaimed himself absolute king before the Portuguese Liberal War.

These concessions also were due to the invasion of the Papal States by the former Papal condottiero Niccolò Fortebraccio and the troops of Filippo Maria Visconti led by Niccolò Piccinino in retaliation for Eugene's support to Florence and Venice against Milan ( see also Wars in Lombardy ).

France also promised to support Maria Theresa as heir to the Habsburg possessions under the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713.

As a result, some factions within Russia's monarchist movement do not support the couple's daughter Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, as the rightful heir to the Romanov dynasty ( see Line of succession to the Russian throne for further details of the controversy ).

Charles Emmanuel was involved in the War of the Austrian Succession, in which he sided with Maria Theresa of Austria, with financial and naval support from England.

Amedeo has received the support of the President of the Council of the Senators of the Kingdom Aldo Alessandro Mola and of Vittorio Emanuele's sister Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy.

In support of the first, Seckau: a bishop Heinrich, who was provost there from 1232 to 1243, is mentioned as provost of Maria Saal in Carinthia in CB 6 * of the added folio (* denotes the song is in the added folio ).

Simmel had a hard time gaining acceptance in the academic community despite the support of well known associates, such as Max Weber, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan George and Edmund Husserl.

In Lombardy ( in northern Italy ) the cautious reforms of Maria Theresa enjoyed support from local reformers.

The alliance of Spain and Austria was signed on 30 April 1725, and included Spanish support for the Pragmatic Sanction, a document drafted by Emperor Charles in 1713 to assure support for Maria Theresa in the succession to the throne of the Habsburgs.

Elected in 1620, Coke sat for Liskeard in the 1621 Parliament, which was called by the King to raise revenues ; other topics of discussion included a proposed marriage between the Prince of Wales and Maria Anna of Spain, and possible military support for the King's son-in-law, Frederick V, Elector Palatine.

Max Joseph sued for peace and gave his support for the candidacy of Maria Theresa's husband, Francis Stephen, in the coming Imperial election for the vacant throne.

Maria was left effectively destitute, had little or no financial support from the Weld family and was obliged to remarry as soon as she could.

In an article published in 2009, Maria Wetterstrand, then party co-spokesperson, defined the party as a natural home also for green-minded social liberals and libertarian socialists, by referring to its liberal policy regarding immigration and its support of personal integrity, participation and entrepreneurship, among other issues.

The ten films that comprise the first commercial movie program, all shot at the Black Maria, were descriptively titled: Barber Shop, Bertoldi ( mouth support ) ( Ena Bertoldi, a British vaudeville contortionist ), Bertoldi ( table contortion ), Blacksmiths, Roosters ( some manner of cock fight ), Highland Dance, Horse Shoeing, Sandow ( Eugen Sandow, a German strongman managed by Florenz Ziegfeld ), Trapeze, and Wrestling.

However, Conrad had the support of her mother Maria Comnena and stepfather Balian of Ibelin, as well as Reginald of Sidon and other major nobles of Outremer.

In October 1832, the King formed a moderate royalist Government under Francisco Cea Bermúdez, which tried, almost successfully, to curb the Apostolic party and, through an amnesty, to gain liberal support for Isabella's right to succeed and for Queen Maria Christina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, her mother and designated regent.

Although Maria was initially reluctant to become Napoleon's mistress, she was convinced to do so by the Emperor's aide, General Géraud Duroc ( Grand Marshal of the Palace ) and a number of Polish aristocrats, who hoped that she could influence the emperor to support Poland in its struggle to regain independence from Prussia, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Russian Empire.

Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, acquired the support of Russia, Sweden, Saxony, Spain, and France, with the specific aim of waging war against Prussia and its ally, Great Britain.