Athena had an " androgynous compromise " that allowed her traits and what she stood for to be attributed to male and female rulers alike over the course of history ( such as Marie de ' Medici, Anne of Austria, Christina of Sweden, and Catherine the Great ).

#**** Catherine Elisabeth Albérique Marie Bonaparte ( born 1950 )

#** Marie Laetitia Eugénie Catherine Adélaïde Bonaparte ( 1866 – 1926 )

Edvard had an elder sister, Johanne Sophie ( born 1862 ), and three younger siblings: Peter Andreas ( born 1865 ), Laura Catherine ( born 1867 ), and Inger Marie ( born 1868 ).

His first wife was Laraine Marie Brennan ; they have a daughter, Catherine.

* May 4 – Marie Booth, the third daughter of William and Catherine Booth ( d. 1937 )

Some examples of these de facto rulers are Empress Dowager Cixi of China ( for son Tongzhi and nephew Guangxu Emperors ), Prince Alexander Menshikov ( for his former lover Empress Catherine I of Russia ), Grigori Rasputin through Tsarina Alexandra ( for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia ), Cardinal Richelieu of France ( for Louis XIII ), and Queen Marie Caroline of Naples and Sicily ( for her husband King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies ).

The Medici produced four Popes of the Catholic Church — Pope Leo X ( 1513 – 1521 ), Pope Clement VII ( 1523 – 1534 ), Pope Pius IV ( 1559 – 1565 ), and Pope Leo XI ( 1605 ); two regent queens of France — Catherine de ' Medici ( 1547 – 1559 ) and Marie de ' Medici ( 1600 – 1610 ); and, in 1531, the family became hereditary Dukes of Florence.

Through her father, Marie Antoinette became the second ( after Margaret of Valois, the renowned Queen Margot ) French queen ever to descend from Henry II of France and Catherine de ' Medici.

He and his three elder siblings – Monique Catherine Josephine Braille ( b. 1793 ), Louis-Simon Braille ( b. 1795 ), and Marie Celine Braille ( b. 1797 ) – lived with their mother, Monique, and father, Simon-René, on three hectares of land and vineyards in the countryside.

He had two more children: Napoléon Louis Joseph Jérôme ( 1864 – 1932 ), governor of Erivan who died unmarried and without issue, and Marie Laetitia Eugénie Catherine Adélaïde ( 1866 – 1926 ), second wife of Amadeo I of Spain.

* Peugeot, Catherine, Sellier, Marie ( 2001 ).

He is the elder son of Jean Edmond Lucien Giscard d ' Estaing ( 1894 – 1982 ), a civil servant, and his wife, Marthe Clémence Jacqueline Marie ( May ) Bardoux, who was a daughter of senator and academic Achille Octave Marie Jacques Bardoux and a great-granddaughter of minister of state education Agénor Bardoux, also a granddaughter of historian Georges Picot and niece of diplomat François Georges-Picot, and also a great-great-great-granddaughter of King Louis XV of France by one of his mistresses, Catherine Eléonore Bernard ( 1740 – 1769 ) through his great-grandfather Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet, and by whom Giscard d ' Estaing was a multiple descendant of Charlemagne.

Other items in the collection include diamond dress ornaments made for Catherine the Great, bracelet clasps once belonging to Marie Antoinette, and the Beauharnais emerald necklace presented by Napoleon to his adopted daughter Hortense de Beauharnais in 1806.

King Wilhelm I, widower of Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, had two daughters of marriageable age, Princesses Marie ( born 1816 ) and Sophie ( born 1818 ).

She was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as Marie Catherine Sophie, Vicomtesse de Flavigny, the daughter of Alexander Victor François de Flavigny ( 1770 – 1819 ), a footloose émigré French aristocrat, and his wife Maria Elisabeth Bethmann ( 1772 – 1847 ), a German banker's daughter.

Bailey has been married four times: in 1960 to Rosemary Bramble ; in 1965 to the actress Catherine Deneuve ( divorced 1972 ); in 1975 to the model Marie Helvin ; and in 1986 to the model Catherine Dyer ( b. 20 July 1961 ), to whom he remains married.

For almost five decades, the household on Third Street was filled by Benjamin and Elizabeth Chew, their son Benjamin, and their daughters Anna Marie, Elizabeth, Sarah, Margaret ( Peggy ), Juliana, Henrietta, Sophia, Maria, Harriet, and Catherine, all of whom were actively engaged in the social, civic, and cultural life of the nation's first capital.

Alexander and Catherine already had three children when they formed a morganatic marriage on 6 July 1880, less than a month after the death of the Emperor's wife, Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, on 8 June.

* Catherine of Lorraine ( 1585 – 1618 ) married Charles Gonzaga and had issue ( Marie Louise, Queen of Poland and the Countess Palatine of Simmern ).

He wrote biographies of Catherine de ' Medici and Marie de Medici, Anne of Austria, Maria Theresa of Austria, Catherine II of Russia, Elizabeth I of England, Diana of Poitiers and Agnès Sorel -- for he delighted in passing from " queens of the right hand " to " queens of the left.

Princesses Alexandra and Dagmar of Denmark. Princess Marie Sophie Fredrica / Frederikke Dagmar was born at the Yellow Palace in Copenhagen.

She was baptized into the Lutheran faith and named after her kinswoman Marie Sophie Fredrica of Hesse-Kassel, Queen Dowager of Denmark as well as the medieval Danish queen, Dagmar of Bohemia.

* 1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.

* November 5 – Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg, Empress of Paul I of Russia ( b. 1759 )

His wife Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg becomes Empress consort.

* October 25 – Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg, empress of Paul I of Russia ( d. 1828 )

* Vilhelmina of Denmark ( born 18 January 1808 ), daughter of Frederick VI of Denmark and Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel ( ultimately she married firstly Frederick VII of Denmark and secondly Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg )

His courage boosted by his resolute young wife, Duchess Marie Sophie of Bavaria, Francis mounted a stubborn defence that lasted three months.

** Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France ( 1786 – 1787 ), second daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

* Alfred Claus Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg ( Tübingen, 8 November 1937 — Berlin, 28 October 1987 ), married at Wilflingen on 24 April 1962 to his distant cousin Marie Sophie Schenk Freiin von Stauffenberg ( b. Berlin, 23 September 1937 ), and had three sons:

The brothers and sisters were Jørgine Caroline ( 1854 – 1879 ), Mathilde Sophie ( born 1856 ), Karen Marie ( 1857 – 1876 ), Jørgen Peter ( born 1859 ) emigrated to Australia, Johan Sophus ( 1861 – 1942 ) emigrated to USA, Christian Albert ( born 1863 ) emigrated to USA, Carl August ( 1865 – 1931 ), Anders Jacob ( born 1867 ) emigrated to USA, Helene Christine Louise ( born 1869 ) emigrated to USA, Valdemar Emil ( 1871 – 1965 ), Julie Christine ( born 1872 ), Anna Dusine ( 8 January to 2 April 1875 ). All the children bore the surname Nielsen despite regulations by the Ministry of Church Affairs.

Mirabeau's love affairs are well-known, owing to the celebrity of the letters to Marie Thérèse de Monnier, his " Sophie ".

Married in Montpellier on 15 July 1873 Clémence Villa ( Millau, 26 December 1847-Paris, 2 December 1939 ), daughter of Achille Villa ( Millau, 17 April 1818-Millau, 7 April 1901 ) and wife Sophie Bimar ( Montpellier, 13 October 1824-Montpellier, 6 February 1885 ), by whom he had at least one son, the French senator and academic Achille Octave Marie Jacques Bardoux.

** Princess Marie Gabriele Cécile Charlotte Sophie of Nassau, Prince Jean's eldest child and only daughter, was born out of wedlock on September 8, 1986.

Both his grandmothers took care of Benjamin, who was educated by private tutors in Belgium ( 1779 ), Holland ( 1780 ), and at the protestant University of Erlangen ( 1783 ), where he got appointed at the court of Duchess Sophie Caroline Marie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

However, Karl faced determined opponents to it on two sides – Prince Metternich, who did not want to repeat his error in marrying Marie Louise to Napoléon I, and Archduchess Sophie, a Bavarian princess and sister-in-law of the new Kaiser Ferdinand I, who dominated the Vienna court with her strong personality, who was awaiting her son Franz-Josef's ascent to the imperial throne.

* Wilhelmina Marie Sophie Louise of the Netherlands ( 1824 – 1897 ).

Sophie, convinced as well, arranges for her to meet Marie after a Russian ballet.

Afterwards, Dimitri and Anastasia reconcile ; the two then elope and Anastasia sends a farewell letter to Marie and Sophie, promising to return someday.

His son Johann Carl was born 1846, and his daughter Marie Sophie in 1848.

* Ferdinand Philippe Marie d ' Orléans, Duke of Alençon ( 12 July 1844 – 29 June 1910 ), who married Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria ( 1847 – 1897 ), sister of Elizabeth, Empress of Austria (" Sisi "), and who had been for a time engaged to Ludwig II of Bavaria ;