A mountaintop shrine of Moses ' sister Miriam was still shown to pilgrims at the time of Jerome in the 4th century, but its location has not been identified since.

In 1810, upon the death of William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry and 3rd Earl of March, he succeeded as fourth Earl of March, fourth Viscount of Peebles and fourth Lord Douglas of Neidpath, Lyne and Munard as the lineal heir male of the aforementioned Lady Anne Douglas, sister of the first Earl of March ( see below ).

They were joined by their sister Stryker brigade, the 2nd SBCT in the spring The 4th Stryker BCT will also deploy to its first deplyment to the country in fall 2012.

George Vaux and sister of Edward Vaux, 4th Baron Vaux of Harrowden.

She was a daughter of George Villiers and Theresa Parker and younger sister of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon.

Lord Dudley married firstly in 1891 Rachel Anne Gurney, born in 1868, daughter of Charles Henry Gurney ( born 5 November 1833 ) and Alice Prinsep, sister of Laura Gurney, wife of Sir Thomas Herbert Cochrane Troubridge, 4th Baronet Troubridge, and maternal granddaughters of Sir Henry Thoby Prinsep ( 1793 – 1878 ) and wife ( m. 1835 ) Sara Monckton Pattle ( Calcutta, 1816-Brighton, 1887 ).

She was the daughter of Sir Jermyn Davers, 4th Baronet, a great-granddaughter of Thomas Jermyn, 2nd Baron Jermyn as well as the sister and heir of Sir Charles Davers, 5th Baronet ( c. 1730-1763 ).

His only married sister, Mary, was the mother of the Catholic converts Aubrey Thomas de Vere, poet, and the Liberal Member of Parliament, Sir Stephen de Vere, 4th Baronet.

Gordon's eldest sister, Lady Charlotte Gordon, married Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond.

Four years later he was created Baron Cobham, of Cobham in the County of Kent, and Viscount Cobham, with remainder, failing heirs male of his own, to ( 1 ) his sister Hester Temple and the heirs male of her body and failing which to ( 2 ) his third sister Lady Christian, wife of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Baronet, of Frankley ( see the Baron Lyttelton ).

His sister, Isabella de Fortibus was widow of William de Forz, 4th Earl of Albemarle, and became also Countess of Devon in her own right.

Paterson married Rose Ridley, the daughter of Matthew Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley and sister of Matt Ridley in 1980.

Mary's sister Margaret had previously died at Rome in 1723, however she had married James, 5th Earl of Linlithgow, 4th Earl of Callendar, and had issue, and it is from her that the present Earl of Erroll is descended.

By the late eighteenth century, Elizabeth Brooke's inheritance was again united in Sir William Boothby, 4th Baronet ; when he died in 1787, the quarter of the Barony of Burgh, and the heirship to Cobham, passed to his only sister, Mrs. Mary Disney.

He was the son of John Bridges Plumptre and grandson of Eleanor, wife of Reverend Henry Western Plumptre and daughter of Sir Brook William Bridges, 4th Baronet, of Goodneston, a descendant of the aforementioned Mary, sister of the sixteenth and seventeenth Barons.

His rise to prominence in England came through his marriage to Margaret, the younger sister of Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester: but it is probably no coincidence that her other brother was the de Quincys ' powerful Fife neighbour, Roger de Beaumont, Bishop of St Andrews.

He was the son of Gerard Anne Edwardes ( died 1813 ) and his wife Lady Jane Noel, daughter of Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough and sister of Henry Noel, 6th and last Earl of Gainsborough ( see above ).

He married Anne Brownlow, daughter of Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet, of Humby and sister and sole heiress of John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel ( and 5th Baronet, of Humby ).

The latter was the fourth of the seven sons of Richard Lumley-Saunderson, 4th Earl of Scarbrough, and his wife Barbara, sister and heiress of the politician Sir George Savile, 8th and last Baronet, of Thornhill ( see Savile Baronets for more information on this title ), who bequeathed the substantial Savile estates in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire ( including Rufford and Thornhill ) to his nephew the Hon.

It was next created in 1864 for the sister of the 4th Duke ( and 10th Earl ) of Dorset, wife of the 5th Earl De La Warr.

On 1 May 1740, he married Elizabeth Berkeley, sister of Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt.

The young Lord Howard de Walden ( 1799 – 1868 ), aged four when he inherited the title from his great-grandfather, eventually married Lady Lucy Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, youngest daughter of William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, and sister and co-heiress of the reclusive William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland.

* Khosrovidukht ( flourished second half of 3rd century & first half of 4th century ), an Arsacid Armenian Princess and sister of Tiridates III of Armenia

She was the younger sister of Helen Blackwood, 4th Baroness of Dufferin and Claneboye, song-writer, composer, poet, and author, and Caroline Norton, society beauty, feminist, social reformer, and author.

His mother, Margory Golding, was the sister of the Ovid translator Arthur Golding, and his uncle, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was the inventor of the English or Shakespearean sonnet form.

After Anne's death, however, Richard named another nephew, John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, the son of his older sister Elizabeth.

" Anne Becher, her sister Harriet, and widowed mother Harriet, had been sent back to India by her authoritarian guardian grandmother, widow Ann Becher, in 1809 on the Earl Howe.

At this point, both Harold's remaining brothers in England were earls in their own right, Harold was himself king and in control of Wessex, and he had married the sister of Earl Edwin of Mercia and Morcar, Earl of Northumbria ( who had succeeded his brother Tostig ).

The situation changed again on 10 February 1306, when Robert the Bruce murdered his rival John Comyn and a few weeks later, on 25 March, had himself crowned king of Scotland by Isobel, sister of the Earl of Buchan.

Through Catherine's mother, Maud, she was also related to Henry by her ancestress Joan Wydville ( or Woodville ), sister of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, father of King Edward IV consort, Elizabeth Woodville.

From his first marriage to Dorothy de Vere, sister of the John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, he had two children, John and Margaret.

As his father-in-law was dead, George became jure uxoris Earl of Warwick, but did not inherit the entire Warwick estate as his younger brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, married the widowed younger sister of his wife, Anne Neville, for which George resented his brother.

In 1475, his wife Isabel, Anne's sister, finally gave birth to a son, Edward, later Earl of Warwick.

After the death of her son, Anne effectively adopted Richard's & her nephew, Edward, Earl of Warwick, the nine-year-old son of George of Clarence ( who was also the son of her own sister Isabel ).

Born Augustus Henry Lane-Fox at Bramham cum Oglethorpe, Wetherby, Yorkshire, he was the son of William Lane-Fox and Lady Caroline Douglas, a sister of George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton.

March was with the English, but his wife, Marjory Comyn, sister of the Earl of Buchan, did not share her husband's political loyalties and allowed her fellow Scots to occupy the castle.

* they shared a grandmother in English princess Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England and the elder sister of Henry VIII ( Mary descending from Margaret's marriage to James IV of Scotland, Darnley from Margaret's marriage to Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus ), putting both Mary and Darnley high in the line of succession for the English throne ;

In February 1566 Bothwell married Jean Gordon, sister of Sir John Gordon and of the Earl of Huntly.

Although the king for the early part of his career, Henry VI, was head of the House of Lancaster, Stanley ’ s marriage to Eleanor, daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury ( a descendant of Edward III ) and sister of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (‘ Warwick the Kingmaker ’) in the late 1450s constituted a powerful alliance with the House of York.

In any event, the title Earl was re-created for her husband as her consort, the famous Sir William Marshal, son of John the Marshal, by Sibylle, the sister of Patrick, Earl of Salisbury.

He had married Anne Parr, sister of Henry VIII's sixth wife, Catherine Parr, and was created Earl in 1551.

However, as soon as the Queen died, the king named his sister Elizabeth's son, the adult John Earl of Lincoln, his heir in place of Warwick.

Edward was taken there to join her, so that in the company of his sister, Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford could break the news to Edward, formally announcing the death of their royal father in the presence chamber at Enfield, on his knees to make formal obeisance to the boy as King.

Mary's sister, Elizabeth I held the property until 1574 when she gave the manor house ( but not the manor ) to Christopher Hatton who sold it in the same year to Sir Thomas Cecil, Earl of Exeter.

A granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary, she was a potential successor to her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England, but incurred Elizabeth's wrath by her secret marriage to Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford.

She was also a younger sister to Edward IV of England and Edmund, Earl of Rutland as well as an older sister to Margaret of York, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and Richard III of England.