Through strategic marriages and personal appointments, Otto installed members of his own family to the Kingdom's most important duchies.

Through wars and marriages he extended the Habsburg influence in every direction: to the Netherlands, Spain, Bohemia, Hungary, Poland, and Italy.

Through her first and second marriages, respectively, Margaret was the grandmother of both Mary, Queen of Scots, and Mary's second husband Lord Darnley.

Through the earlier parts of the 20th century, Western etiquette prescribed that a white dress should not be worn for subsequent marriages, since the wearing of white was mistakenly regarded by some as an ancient symbol of virginity, despite the fact that wearing white is a fairly recent development in wedding traditions, and its origin has more to do with conspicuous consumption from an era when a white dress was luxurious, even prodigal, because of difficulties with laundering delicate clothes.

Through a program of military campaigns, alliances, marriages and land grants, he achieved a unification of the country bordered by China to the north, Champa ( now Central Vietnam ) to the east, the ocean to the south and a place identified by a stone inscription as " the land of cardamoms and mangoes " to the west.

Through his children's marriages he had made remarkable connections across Europe, including the Russian, Austrian and British royal families.

Through his children's eventual marriages, Cavendish became the father-in-law of Henry Philip Hunloke, James Stuart, Harold Macmillan, and Adele Astaire.

Through his mother's assiduous endeavours, he made two materially advantageous marriages to wealthy heiresses-his first wife being Anne Holland ( daughter of the King's sister, Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter ), and his second wife, Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington.

Through descent in the female line and marriages, the house passed through several families: the Wooleys, the Crokes, and the Thurbanes.

Through the children of his two marriages, Philippe became an ancestor of most modern-day Roman Catholic royalty, giving him the nickname of " the grandfather of Europe ".

Through the marriages of his daughters, El Cid began the unification of Spain.

Through advantageous marriages, Lamberto's son, Ubaldo II, secured power in Logudoro for a time.

Through her various marriages, several of her husbands became lords of Oultrejordain.

Through her marriages to two Kings of Wessex, Æthelwulf and Æthelbald, she was twice a queen.

Through marriages, she became Shirley Alston and later, Shirley Alston Reeves.

Through marriages, she became Doris Coley Kenner and later, Doris Kenner Jackson.

Through these marriages and subsequent Montlhéry participation on the First Crusade, Guy I was the ancestor of the ruling dynasties of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem and the County of Edessa.

Through the years, priests from San Luis Rey continued to visit Pala and conduct baptisms, marriages, and worship services.

Through a string of marriages the Inzerillo ’ s were related to the Di Maggio and Spatola families in Palermo and the Gambino ’ s in New York.

Through marriages, agreements, war and inheritancies and legacies, Wessem was owned by one noble family after another.

Through his three marriages he had close connections to both the Earl of Kildare and the Earl of Ormonde ; his political loyalties were with the Kildare faction though he later quarreled with them. He was a companion of the Order of Saint George, and served as Sheriff of Meath in 1482.

Through the years, there may have been some marriages of Native Americans into the group as they migrated to North Carolina, then into Kentucky and Ohio.

Through his daughters by Octavia, he would be ancestor to the Roman Emperors Caligula, Claudius and Nero.

Through his youngest daughters, Antony would become ancestor to most of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the very family he had fought unsuccessfully to defeat.

Through his first wife, Aelis, he had two daughters.

Through Marie, Baldwin had additional connections and obligations to the defenders of the Holy Land: her brother Henry II of Champagne had been King of Jerusalem in the 1190s ( leaving a widow and two daughters who needed help to keep and regain their territories in Palestine ).

Through his four daughters Eliezer became the ancestor of several learned families which exerted a great influence upon religious life in the subsequent centuries.

Through his great-grandmother Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton, who was briefly Princess of Monaco, he was a descendant of James IV of Scotland ( descended from three of his illegitimate daughters ).

Through this marriage, she became a Queen of Commagene and bore Mithridates, a son future prince and successor Antiochus III of Commagene and two daughters, both princesses called Iotapa.

Through the liberality of Tooke's friends, Tooke's last days were freed from the pressure of poverty, and Tooke was enabled to place his illegitimate son in a position which soon brought him wealth, and to leave a competency to his two illegitimate daughters.

Through a plot, she managed to assume power in February 914, practically removing Patriarch Nicholas from the government, disowning and obscuring his recognition of Simeon's imperial title and rejecting the planned marriage of her son to one of Simeon's daughters.

Through Junia Lepida, a great-great granddaughter of Augustus, both of Cassia's daughters by Corbulo were direct descendants of the first Roman emperor and thus, surviving members of the Imperial Julio-Claudian family.

Through this process, the women " transformed themselves from ‘ traditional ’ women defined by their relationships with men ( mothers, wives, daughters ) into public protesters working on behalf of the whole society " ( Arditti 97 ).

Through this church he married his first wife Nora and they had two daughters.

Through this marriage, she became the mother of five daughters, four of whom would become mistresses of King Louis XV of France:

Through his marriage to Ermengard of Italy he also had two daughters: Ermengard ( c. 877-917 ), who married Manasses, Count of Chalon, and Ethelberga, who married first Carloman and then William the Pious, Count of Auvergne.

Through marriage with the daughters of native Irish landowners and by purchase they built up a small estate near The Neale.

Through 1911 and 1912, as the Cubist facet-plane's tendency to adhere to the literal surface became harder and harder to deny, the task of keeping the surface at arm's length fell all the more to eye-undeceiving contrivances.

Through Sven Markelius, Aalto became a member of the Congres Internationaux d ' Architecture Moderne ( CIAM ), attending the second congress in Frankfurt in 1929 and the fourth congress in Athens in 1933, where he established a close friendship with László Moholy-Nagy, Sigfried Giedion and Philip Morton Shand.

Through its song-setting the poetry became closely associated with that era, and with Shropshire itself.

" Through his father's connections, Chaplin became a member of The Eight Lancashire Lads clog dancing troupe.

Through the reputation of its venerable founder and its position as a major European centre of learning, Columba's Iona became a place of pilgrimage.

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

Through his simple message Cyril became recognized as one of the most profound and admired Bishops in church history, which ultimately led to his canonization by the Christian church.

Through close contacts with the Arabian peninsula for more than one-thousand years, the Somali and Afar ethnic groups in this region became among the first on the African continent to adopt Islam.

Thomas was a teenager when many of the poems for which he became famous were published: " And death shall have no dominion ", " Before I Knocked " and " The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower ".

Through the activities of the theologian Origen ( 185 / 6 – 254 ) and the school of his follower Pamphilus ( later 3rd century – 309 ), Caesarea became a center of Christian learning.

Through nudism, Gardner made a number of notable friends, including James Laver ( 1899 – 1975 ), who became the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Cottie Arthur Burland ( 1905 – 1983 ), who was the Curator of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum.

Through the years it was combined with other specialty chemicals businesses and became ICI Colours and Fine Chemicals and then ICI Specialties.

Through bribes, diplomacy, and manipulation of weak native rulers, the company prospered in India, where it became the most powerful political force, and outrivaled its Portuguese, and French competitors.

Through his friend Richard Lower, whom he knew from the Westminster School, Locke was introduced to medicine and the experimental philosophy being pursued at other universities and in the Royal Society, of which he eventually became a member.

Through the influence of Francis Walsingham, Andrewes was appointed prebendary of St Pancras in St Paul's, London, in 1589, and subsequently became Master of his own college of Pembroke, as well as a chaplain of Archbishop John Whitgift.

Through her friendship with Martha Root, Lidia accepted Bahá ’ u ’ lláh and became a member of the Bahá ’ í faith.

Through the marriage with his daughter Mieszko, he entered into the circle of the Imperial family and became a person equal to, if not higher than the Emperor himself.

Through this stake, it became a minority owner of the DuMont Television Network.

Through his decisive influence on Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes, among others, Jakobson became a pivotal figure in the adaptation of structural analysis to disciplines beyond linguistics, including anthropology and literary theory ; this generalization of Saussurean methods, known as " structuralism ", became a major post-war intellectual movement in Europe and the United States.

Through family, friends, and a network of investors Raimi was able to finance production of the highly successful horror film The Evil Dead ( 1981 ) which became a cult hit and effectively launched Raimi's career.

Through the media and the works of FSLN leaders such as Carlos Fonseca, the life and times of Augusto César Sandino became the unique symbol of this revolutionary force in Nicaragua.

In an alternative history novel by S. M. Stirling, Marching Through Georgia, it is mentioned that Roosevelt retired after his second term and Willkie became his successor as President.

Through a package of constitutional reforms agreed to with the Nationalist opposition, Malta became a republic on 13 December 1974, with the last Governor-General, Sir Anthony Mamo, as its first President.

Through the 1940s and 1950s, the use of ECT became widespread.