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Herrand was born around 1230. [2] [3] He belonged to an important noble family that held the hereditary office of high steward in the Duchy of Styria.The family's castle, now in ruins, was Alt Wildon []. [3]
4th wife: 1540: c. 1524–1542 Catherine Howard 5th wife: 1540–1542: c. 1507 –1536 Anne Boleyn 2nd wife: 1533–1536: c. 1508 –1537 Jane Seymour 3rd wife: 1536–1537: 1491–1547 Henry VIII King of England r. 1509–1547: 1485–1536 Catherine of Aragon 1st wife: 1509–1533: 1512–1548 Catherine Parr 6th wife: 1543–1547: 1533–1603 ...
"The Wife of Bath's Tale" (Middle English: The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe) is among the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It provides insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and was probably of interest to Chaucer, himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her Prologue twice as long as her ...
Anne was born in 1515, on either 22 September [2] [5] or 28 June. [a] She was born in Düsseldorf, Duchy of Berg, the second daughter of John III of the House of La Marck, Duke of Jülich jure uxoris, Cleves, Berg jure uxoris, Count of Mark, also known as de la Marck and Ravensberg jure uxoris (often referred to as Duke of Cleves) who died in 1538, and his wife Maria, Duchess of Jülich-Berg ...
This inscription is traditionally known as the "Laudatio Turiae," "The Praise of Turia," [3] [4] because its subject was generally identified with Curia, the wife of Quintus Lucretius Vespillo, consul in 19 BC, [5] [6] on the basis of comparison with the histories of Valerius Maximus (6, 7, 2) and Appian (Bell.civ. 4, 44), which report that Turia saved her husband in much the same way ...
The World's Wife is a collection of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy, originally published in the UK in 1999 by both Picador [1] and Anvil Press Poetry [2] and later published in the United States by Faber and Faber in 2000. [3] Duffy's poems in The World's Wife focus on either well known female figures or fictional counterparts to well known male ...
Some of the most beautiful women are married to some of the most powerful men in business -- all while having a crazy successful career of their own. 14 hottest wives and girlfriends of the world ...
In his biography of Beethoven, Schindler (1840) named Julie ("Giulietta") Guicciardi as the "Immortal Beloved". [g] But research by Tellenbach (1983) indicated that her cousin Franz von Brunsvik may have suggested Giulietta to Schindler, to distract any suspicion away from his sister Josephine Brunsvik, with whom Beethoven had been hopelessly in love from 1799 to ca. 1809/1810. [12]