While the court was prepared to accept Mary's fiancé as king, the majority of the nobility was opposed to the idea of a female monarch and regarded her closest agnate, King Charles III of Naples, as the legitimate heir.

He is Mary's closest coworker and close friend.

Only in recent decades ( after Saunders retired ) has the strip centered more on the title character, along with a regular cast of her closest friends, most of whom were introduced to the strip after 1980: Professor Ian Cameron and his younger wife Toby, advice columnist Wilbur Weston and his college student daughter Dawn, and Dr. Jeff Cory, Mary's perennial beau, and his son, Dr. Drew Cory.

Mary's initial popularity ebbed away in 1554 when she announced plans to marry Prince Philip of Spain, the son of Emperor Charles V and an active Catholic.

Throughout the Civil War, the Confederacy maintained a network of underground operators in southern Maryland, particularly Charles and St. Mary's counties, smuggling recruits across the Potomac River into Virginia and relaying messages for Confederate agents as far north as Canada.

It was nevertheless feared that Charles ' arrival in Hungary might jeopardise Mary's reign, and he was an issue that had to be dealt with.

When Charles landed in Dalmatia in September 1385, Mary's kingdom was already at war with both Sigismund's brother Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia and Germany, and the queen mother's cousin, King Tvrtko I of Bosnia.

Charles ' arrival forced Mary's mother to abandon the planned French marriage and make peace with her enemies.

Sigismund fled to his brother's court in Prague and, following Mary's abdication, Charles was crowned on 31 December, with Mary and her mother forced to attend his coronation.

Mary's uncle was King Charles II, who ruled the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland ; her maternal grandfather, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, served for a lengthy period as Charles's chief advisor.

Clement may have been reluctant to act because he was influenced by Charles V, Catherine's nephew and Mary's former betrothed, whose troops had surrounded and occupied Rome in the War of the League of Cognac.

To elevate his son to Mary's rank, Emperor Charles V ceded the crown of Naples, as well as his claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, to Philip.

The bulk of the nation headed by the House of Garai was with him ; but in the southern provinces between the Sava and the Drava, the Horvathys with the support of King Tvrtko I of Bosnia, Mary's maternal uncle, proclaimed as their king Ladislaus, king of Naples, son of the murdered Charles II of Hungary.

* 1930 ....... 16, 169 ...... 19th ( Calvert, Charles, Kent, Queen Anne's, St. Mary's fewer )

It is considered that Mary's uncles Francis, Duke of Guise and Charles of Guise may have held the real power in that period.

To her stepdaughter, Mary, now Duchess of Burgundy, she gave immeasurable guidance and help: using her own experiences in the court of Edward IV, where she had largely avoided being used as a pawn and contributed to the arrangement of her own marriage, she wisely guided the Duchess in deciding her marriage ; against the wave of marriage offers that flooded to the two Duchesses in Ghent ( from the recently widowed Duke of Clarence, from the 7-year old Dauphin of France, Charles, from a brother of Edward IV's wife, Elizabeth Woodville ), she stood firm, and advised Mary to marry Maximilian of Habsburg, the 18-year old son of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, to whom Charles the Bold had betrothed Mary, and who was ambitious and active enough, in Margaret's opinion, to defend Mary's legacy.

When she married Maximilian I of Habsburg, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, the provinces were acquired by the House of Habsburg in 1482, with the exception of the Duchy of Burgundy itself, which, with an appeal to Salic law, had been reabsorbed into France upon the death of Mary's father, Charles the Bold.

These include Charles Spurgeon's Metropolitan Tabernacle, Southwark Cathedral ( Church of England ), St George's Cathedral ( Roman Catholic ), and St Mary's Cathedral ( Greek Orthodox ).

This council supports girls in several Maryland counties: Calvert, Charles, Montgomery, Prince George's, Frederick, St. Mary's, Allegany, and Washington.

In addition, Southern Maryland is the fast-growing area in the state, and a very desirable bedroom community for people who work in the District of Columbia, but unlike neighboring Charles and Calvert Counties, many in St. Mary's County both work and live in the county.

* Nolan, Charles E. St. Mary's of Natchez: The History of a Southern Catholic Congregation, 1716 – 1988 ( 2 vol 1992 )

In 1559, sickly fifteen-year-old Francis II of France ( married to the young Mary, Queen of Scots ) succeeded to the throne ; Mary's uncles François, Duc de Guise, and Charles de Guise may have held much of the true power in this period, and did much to persecute the French Protestants and reduce the power of the Bourbon and Condé princes.

Fuller subsequently published by royal request a sermon preached on 10 May 1644, at St Mary's, Oxford, before the king and Prince Charles, called Jacob's Vow.

" The English continually refer to her as a witch and a whore, the French as a saint and a saviour, and the play itself seems to waver between these two poles: " Joan first appears in a state of beatitude, patient, serene, the " Divinest creature " of Charles ' adoration, the object of the Virgin Mary's miraculous intercession, chosen by her to rescue France, and so made beautiful, courageous and wise [...] on the other hand, and virtually at the same time, she's clearly an early combination of the demonic, the Machiavellian, and the Marlovian.

Two date from the reign of Charles II, two from the reign of James II, three from William and Mary's reign, and one from Queen Anne ( the cypher of George I was subsequently added to the latter ).

According to Giovanni Michieli, the Venetian ambassador, Philip may have planned to marry Elizabeth in the event of Mary's death in childbirth, but in a letter to his brother-in-law, Maximilian of Austria, Philip expressed uncertainty as to whether his wife was pregnant.

Mary's power was increasing: in May 1553, the imperial ambassador in London, Jean Scheyfve, heard she had challenged Arran's regency and proposed James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, her illegitimate step-son, as a replacement.

The English government could not swallow a war threat from an ambassador who had overstepped his commission, but at the same time would not risk all-important commercial ties with the Habsburg Netherlands, so an embassy was sent to Brussels and some of Mary's household officers were arrested.

Although opposed to Mary's proposed Habsburg marriage, Mason remained as ambassador to Charles V but he was in Windsor in March 1556 and finally recalled to England that summer.

In August 1567, the Earl of Moray intimated to Guzman de Silva, Spanish ambassador to England, that he had in his possession a letter in Queen Mary's own handwriting that would implicate her in the murder of Lord Darnley.

Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon?

The inaugural Uteck Bowl was played at Huskies Stadium, where two-time defending Vanier Cup champions and home team Saint Mary's Huskies defeated the Simon Fraser Clan.

When they were around eleven years old, Nick Hodgson, Nick Baines and Simon Rix met in the same class at St. Mary's Catholic High School, Menston, West Yorkshire.

Sempringham is the site of St Mary's Priory, a priory of the Abbey of Peterborough that was founded by Saint Gilbert ( also known as Gilbert of Sempringham ); it became the enforced residence of Gwenllian of Wales, the daughter of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Tywysog Cymru, the Leader of Wales, Prince of Wales, and the granddaughter of Simon de Montfort.

Heard on the soundtrack: John Simon ( piano ), Collin Walcott ( sitar, tamboura ), Aunt Mary's Transcendental Slip and Lurch Band ( rock band ), Cyrus Faryar ( voice ), Buddy Bruno ( voice ), Ray Draper ( tuba, voice ), Electric Meatball ( rock band ), Henry Diltz ( banjo, voice ), Bad Kharma Dan and the Bicycle Brothers ( motorcycle gang ).

The relics of St. Simon were discovered in 1991 in St. Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church in Babylon, Church of the Holy Virgin ( Babylon El-Darag ) in Coptic Cairo.

A new documentary movie on Millington's life, entitled " Respectable-The Mary Millington Story ", based on the bestselling book by Simon Sheridan, and featuring interviews with Mary's family, friends and co-stars, will be released in the spring of 2013.

Agreeing with Mary's continued virginity, the text proclaims that Joseph had four sons ( Judas, Justus, James, and Simon ) and two daughters ( Assia and Lydia ) by a previous marriage.

Fiona Lewis and Simon Bannerman got married in St Oswald's church, Lower Peover ( which also featured in Revelations ) and the Amanda Thompson and Neil Brooks aborted first wedding was in St Mary's church, Nether Alderley.

Other Canadian universities which offer courses in Celtic, Scottish or Irish studies include Cape Breton University, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Simon Fraser University, the University of Guelph and the University of Ottawa.

Proposing a solution to the theological problem of reconciling the doctrine with that of universal redemption in Christ, he argued that Mary's immaculate conception did not remove her from redemption by Christ ; rather it was the result of a more perfect redemption granted her because of her special role in salvation history.

The terms " brothers " and " sisters " as used in this context are open to different interpretations, and since have been argued to refer to children of Joseph by a previous marriage, Mary's sister's children, or Joseph's sister's children.

; Eusebius and Epiphanius held that these men were Joseph's sons from ( an unrecorded ) former marriage Jerome, another important early theologian, also followed the perpetual virginity doctrine, but argued that these adelphoi were sons of Mary's sister, whom Jerome identified as Mary of Cleopas.