A passionate fighting-man ( he fought twenty-nine battles against Christian or Moor ), he was married ( when well over 30 years and a habitual bachelor ) in 1109 to the ambitious Queen Urraca of León, widow of Raymond of Burgundy, a passionate woman unsuited for a subordinate role.

Spain established a colony there, and gave the islands the official title of Las Marianas in honor of Spanish Queen Mariana of Austria, widow of Philip IV of Spain.

Tancred had imprisoned William's widow, Queen Joan, who was Richard's sister, and did not give her the money she had inherited in William's will.

* Queen Guntheuc, widow of Chlodomer, is forced by marrying with Chlothar I.

In her answers to the questions from Queen Elizabeth I, Ní Mháille said she was Risdeárd's widow.

* The Rt Hon The Lady Saltoun ( widow of Capt Alexander Ramsay of Mar, great-grandson of Queen Victoria through her son The Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn )

* HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ( widow of HM King George VI and mother of HM The Queen )

His widow, Anne's stepmother, the former Queen, wrote to Anne to inform her that her father forgave her and to remind her of her promise to seek the restoration of his line.

This style was adopted because the normal style for the widow of a king, " Queen Elizabeth ", would have been too similar to the style of her elder daughter, now Queen Elizabeth II.

Uncertain of how the Prince Consort's widow, Queen Victoria, would take the news of the birth, the Prince of Wales wrote to the Duke of York that the Queen had been " rather distressed ".

In 2002, the remains of his widow, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and the ashes of his younger daughter Princess Margaret, who both died that year, were interred in the chapel alongside him.

Catherine was not quite 21 and was left a widow and Dowager Queen of England.

Thomas Cromwell's son Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell, married Elizabeth Seymour, the sister of Queen Jane Seymour and widow of Sir Anthony Ughtred ( or Oughtred ).

James I and his queen Joan Beaufort ( died 1445 ) were both buried in the priory church, as was Queen Margaret Tudor ( died 1541 ), widow of James IV of Scotland.

The 33-year reign of Queen Ranavalona I, the widow of Radama I, was characterized by a struggle to preserve the cultural and political sovereignty of Madagascar from French and English colonial designs.

Her majesty, the Queen, continued the arrangement for the widow of General Moore, following his death on 24 April 1838.

* Following the death of the King of Cyrene, Magas, Queen Apama II, Magas ' widow, and Antigonus II arrange the marriage of Antigonus ' half-brother Demetrius the Fair to Berenice of Cyrene, daughter of Magas and Apama.

The works best known to English speakers are three great orations delivered at the funerals of Queen Henrietta Maria, widow of Charles I of England ( 1669 ), her daughter, Henriette, Duchess of Orléans ( 1670 ), and the outstanding soldier le Grand Condé ( 1687 ).

* Queen Eleanor – his mother, widow of Henry II

The struggle for power continued with Queen Fredegund of Neustria ( the widow of King Chilperic I ( reigned 566-584 ) and the mother of the new king Clotaire II ( reigned 584-628 )) unleashing a bitter war.

Elisabeth of Parma, Philip V's widow, exerted great influence on Spain's foreign policy.

Hungary was under a growing threat from the Ottoman Empire, and some Polish magnates did not want to agree to the king of Poland also being the monarch of Hungary, while Elisabeth, widow of the deceased King of Hungary, Albert II of Germany, attempted to keep the crown for her yet unborn child.

Warren married Swedish-born widow Nina Elisabeth Palmquist Meyers on October 4, 1925 and had six children.

His son-in-law Albert of Hungary ( Albert II of Germany ) ruled for only two years and died in 1439 leaving his wife Elisabeth of Luxembourg as a widow and with a newborn child who was crowned as Ladislaus V of Hungary.

Conrad's widow Elisabeth married secondly Meinhard II, Count of Tirol, who in 1286 became Duke of Carinthia.

Pufendorf married Katharina Elisabeth von Palthen, the widow of a colleague in 1665.

However, Elisabeth of Bosnia, widow of Louis and mother of Mary, arranged to have Charles assassinated on 7 February 1386.

On the death of William V, whose territories had been conquered by the Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Empire, his widow Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, as regent for her son William VI, reconquered the country and, with the aid of the French and Swedes, held it, together with part of Westphalia.

On the untimely death of Albert in 1439, Hunyadi was of the volition that Hungary was best served by a warrior king and lent his support to the candidature of young King of Poland Władysław III of Varna in 1440, and thus came into collision with the powerful magnate Ulrich II of Celje, the chief proponent of Albert's widow Elisabeth of Bohemia ( 1409 – 1442 ) and her infant son, Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary.

* Elisabeth Piast ( 1305 – 29 December 1380 ), wife and widow of King Charles I of Hungary.

* Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, ( 1759-1818 ) widow of King Charles XIII of Sweden.

To further legitimate the Habsburg claims to the Bohemian and the Polish throne, Albert had Rudolph married to Elisabeth Richeza of Poland from the Piast dynasty, widow of the predeceased King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia.

* William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey ( d. 1138 ) married Elisabeth ( Isabelle ) de Vermandois, widow of Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester.

Henry was a younger son of Meinhard II of Görz-Tyrol and Elisabeth of Wittelsbach, daughter of Duke Otto II of Bavaria and widow of King Conrad IV of Germany.

Beerbohm had died the year before, but his widow, Elisabeth interested herself in the production, and attended the first night.

Meinhard's wife from 1258 was Elisabeth of Bavaria ( c. 1227 – 73 ), the daughter of Duke Otto II and widow of King Conrad IV, King of the Romans.

Busbecq ended his career as the guardian of Elisabeth of Austria, Maximilian's daughter and widow of French king Charles IX.

He became friends with the music publisher Gottfried Meyer and, after Meyer's death, married his widow Julie ( having been able to divorce Elisabeth after he had become a citizen of Brunswick ).

Meigen, found himself in the house in which the great poet and dramatist Klopstock spent the last 30 years of his life and which Von Winthem's sister, Johanna Elisabeth von Winthem, Klopstock's widow, then owned.

He had firstly, as a child, married ( for reasons of succession and uniting the hereditary fiefs ) a distant cousin, Countess Adelheid of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst ( who is said to have died already in 1404 ), daughter of Oldenburg Count Otto IV of Delmenhorst, and in 1423 he married for a second time, Helvig of Schauenburg ( born in about 1398-1400, died 1436 ), widow of Prince Balthasar of Mecklenburg and daughter of the murdered Duke Gerhard VI of Schleswig-Holstein and his wife Elisabeth of Brunswick, thus sister of the reigning Duke Adolf VIII.

Elizabeth went to live in Prague Castle with her brother's widow, Viola Elisabeth of Cieszyn.

His second marriage was to the English widow Elisabeth Irish on April 12, 1796.