After his education, Alexei married, albeit greatly against his will Princess Charlotte of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, whose family was connected by marriage to many of the great families of Europe i. e., Charlotte's sister Elizabeth was married to Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy.

The headship of the family is in dispute between Charles Napoléon, born 1950, great-great-grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte by his second marriage ; and his son Jean-Christophe ( born 1986 ) who was appointed heir in the will of his grandfather Prince Louis Napoléon.

Through the marriage, the future artist Romare Bearden became Charles ’ cousin.

James also requested that Parliament sanction the marriage between the Prince of Wales and Princess Henrietta Maria of France, whom Charles had met in Paris while en route to Spain.

Parliament reluctantly agreed to the marriage, with the promise from both James and Charles that the marriage would not entail a liberty of religion being accorded to any Roman Catholic not of the Princess ' own household.

A younger daughter, Lady Anne Churchill, married Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland ( c. 1674 – 1722 ), and from this marriage descend the modern Dukes of Marlborough.

In 1974 Mountbatten began corresponding with Charles about a potential marriage to his granddaughter, Hon.

When Charles finally did propose marriage to Amanda later in 1979, the circumstances were tragically changed, and she refused him.

" Charles makes a proposal of lifelong commitment without marriage to Carrie, saying, " Do you think not being married to me might maybe be something you could consider doing for the rest of your life?

Six of George's siblings reached maturity, including two older half-brothers, Lawrence and Augustine, from his father's first marriage to Jane Butler Washington, and four full siblings, Samuel, Elizabeth ( Betty ), John Augustine and Charles.

Seeking revenge for being jilted by Ashley, Scarlett accepts a proposal of marriage from Melanie's brother, Charles Hamilton.

George's second wife was Hedwig of Münsterberg-Oels ( 1508 – 1531 ), daughter of Charles I of Münsterberg-Oels ; their marriage produced two daughters:

With Charles the Bold's death, his domains began an inevitable slide towards division between France and the Habsburgs ( who through marriage to his heiress Mary became his heirs ).

One of the children of that marriage, Charles Darwin, would also marry a Wedgwood — Emma, Josiah's granddaughter.

In March 2012, Bacon was featured in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, ' 8 ' — a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage — as Attorney Charles J. Cooper.

Her 1951 marriage to Charles Dye ended in divorce a year later, but during that time, one of her stories was published under Dye's name.

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

This progress in his personal life, however, could not be matched in his political life as he was unable to persuade Charles, Catherine's nephew, to support the annulment of his aunt's marriage.

King Charles the Old, being conqueror, falls in love with a young maiden, and afterward growing ashamed of his folly bestows her and her sister honourably in marriage.

Gifts or promises had won the support of the Rhenish and Swabian towns ; a marriage alliance secured the friendship of the Habsburgs ; and an alliance with Rudolf II of Bavaria, Count Palatine of the Rhine, was obtained when Charles, who had become a widower in 1348, married his daughter Anna.

Despite Margaret's betrothal and continued presence at the French court, Anne arranged a marriage between Charles and Anne of Brittany.

The final result of all of these machinations was that Charles repudiated his betrothal to Margaret when he came of age in 1491, invaded Brittany, forced Anne of Brittany to repudiate her unconsummated marriage to Maximilian, and married her.

After treating in vain for a marriage between one of his sons and Mary, daughter and heiress of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, Albert handed over the government of Brandenburg to his eldest son John, and returned to his Franconian possessions.

* December 6 – King Charles VIII of France marries Anne of Brittany, forcing her to break her marriage with Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, thus incorporating Brittany into the kingdom of France.

He had accompanied as canon Diego de Acebo, Bishop of Osma on a diplomatic mission to Denmark, to arrange the marriage between the son of King Alfonso VIII of Castile and a niece of King Valdemar II of Denmark.

* 1540 – King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.

* 1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.

* 1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.

She was the only surviving child born of the ill-fated marriage of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon.

Since that time, the documentation includes items such as Henry VIII of England's request for a marriage annulment, and letters from Michelangelo.

* Catherine of Aragon 2 October 1501: arrived and was escorted to London for her marriage to Henry VIII of England

In 1530, More refused to sign a letter by the leading English churchmen and aristocrats asking Pope Clement VII to annul Henry's marriage to Catherine, and also quarrelled with Henry VIII over the heresy laws.

Henry VIII of England | Henry VIII recognised Cranmer's value in obtaining support for the annulment of his marriage with Catherine of Aragon.

On his return she presented him with the parochial benefice of Bradwell, in Essex, and he remained to the last a staunch supporter of the unfortunate queen in the case of the validity of her marriage with Henry VIII.

* January 15 – Parliament of England passes the Act Respecting the Oath to the Succession recognising the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, and their children as the legitimate heirs to the throne.

* May 23 – King Henry VIII of England's marriage with Catherine of Aragon is declared divorced by the Archbishop Cranmer.

* May – July – Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, presides over a legatine court at Blackfriars, London, to rule on the legality of King Henry VIII of England's marriage to Catherine of Aragon.

Her marriage to King Charles VIII in 1491 effectively ends Breton independence from France.

He groomed the headstrong Piero II to follow as his successor in civil leadership ; Giovanni ( future Pope Leo X ) was placed in the church at an early age ; and his daughter Maddalena was provided with a sumptuous dowry to make a politically advantageous marriage to a son of Pope Innocent VIII.

The opening of the play was also changed, with Thomas Cromwell telling Henry VIII the outcome of the trial and Henry then recalling his marriage to Anne, rather than Anne speaking first and then Henry remembering in flashback.

By her marriage to Charles VIII, she made Brittany a part of France.

The German Emperor Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse, Duke Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Duke Ernst August of Brunswick were Edward's nephews ; Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain, Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, Crown Princess Marie of Romania, Crown Princess Sophia of Greece, Empress Alexandra of Russia, Grand Duchess Alexandra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Duchess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen were his nieces ; Haakon VII of Norway was both his nephew by marriage and his son-in-law ; George I of Greece and Frederick VIII of Denmark were his brothers-in-law ; Albert I of Belgium, Charles I and Manuel II of Portugal, and Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria were his second cousins.

Pope Boniface VIII had urged the marriage as early as 1298 but was delayed by wrangling over the terms of the marriage contract.

Since 1527, Henry VIII had sought to have his marriage to Queen Catherine annulled in order to marry Anne Boleyn.

Ludlow Castle was therefore the site of perhaps the most controversial wedding night in English history, when Catherine's claim that the marriage was never consummated became central to the dispute concerning Henry VIII and Catherine's annulment in 1531.

In the same year Alfonso's sister, Eleanor of Castile, married Henry's heir to the throne, Edward: with this act Alfonso renounced forever all claim to the Duchy of Gascony, to which Castile had been a pretender since the marriage of Alfonso VIII of Castile with Eleanor of England and Gascony.