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Xanthippe (/ z æ n ˈ θ ɪ p i /; Ancient Greek: Ξανθίππη [ksantʰíppɛː]; fl. 5th–4th century BCE) was an ancient Athenian, the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons: Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus. She was likely much younger than Socrates, perhaps by as much as 40 years. [1]
Eberhard II (1315 – 15 March 1392), nicknamed the Quarrelsome (German: der Greiner), was Count of Württemberg from 1344 until his death in 1392. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He ruled Württemberg alongside his brother, Ulrich IV , before forcing him out of power in 1362.
Johnson's 18th-century definition was: "A clamourous, rude, mean, low, foul-mouthed woman", suggesting a level of vulgarity and a class distinction from the more generalised shrew, but this nuance has been lost. [26] In Johnson's time, the word formed part of a legal term, common scold which referred to rude and brawling women see below. [27]
Louis being crowned with his second wife, Clementia of Hungary. Louis was born in Paris, the eldest son of Philip IV of France and Joan I of Navarre. [2] He inherited the kingdom of Navarre on the death of his mother, on 4 April 1305, and was crowned on 1 October 1307. [3]
In Herman Melville's Mardi (Chapters 25, 26, 28), Samoa's wife Annatoo is described as a Termagant, and metaphorically referred to as Antonina (wife of Belisarius) to Samoa's Belisarius. Explaining why she did not need the armaments on the ship, Melville writes "Her voice was a park of artillery; her talons a charge of bayonets." (Chapter 23.)
Wife is the sacred soil in which the husband is born again, even the Rishis cannot create men without women. — Adi Parva , Mahabharata Book, 1.74.50-51 [ 23 ] The Anushasana Parva of the Hindu epic Mahabharata has several chapters dedicated to the discussion about duties and right of women.
Christian I, known as "the Quarrelsome" (died 1167 [1]), was Count of Oldenburg from 1143 to 1167. He was son of Elimar II, Count of Oldenburg and wife Eilika von Werl-Rietberg, [ 2 ] daughter of Count Heinrich von Rietberg .
"The Butterfly that Stamped" is one of the stories that is about King Solomon, his lovely wife Balkis, the Queen of Sheba (she is the one he is in love with, and she loves him, in most versions the others are there just because he is king and has to have more wives than anyone else), his other nine-hundred ninety nine wives, and two charming, but quarrelsome, butterflies.