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unusual facts about Catherine, Duchess of Braganza


English Armada

But he was not a charismatic figure, and with his cause compromised by his illegitimacy, he faced an opponent with perhaps the better claim, in the eyes of the Portuguese nobles of the Cortes, Catherine, Duchess of Braganza.


Albert J. Beveridge

His accumulated materials for the continuance of the project were handed on to Carl Sandburg at his wife Catherine's request.

Alexandre Colonna-Walewski

He married Lady Catherine Caroline Montagu (1808–1833), daughter of George Montagu, 6th Earl of Sandwich, and Lady Louisa Mary Anne Julia Harriet Lowry-Corry, on 1 December 1831.

Archduchess Catherine Renata of Austria

Born in Graz and like all of her siblings, Catherine Renata suffered of the famous Habsburg inferior lip.

Bansha

Another family member of a later generation was Catherine, daughter of Patrick McCarthy, farmer, of Ballygurteen, Kilmoyler, who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.

Baron Alington

He was the son of Henry Sturt, great-grandson of Humphrey Sturt by his wife Diana (through which marriage Crichel House in Dorset came into the Sturt family), daughter of Sir Nathaniel Napier, 3rd Baronet, and the Honourable Catherine, daughter of the third Baron of the 1642 creation.

Bonaventure Giffard

He was the second son of Andrew Giffard of Chillington, in the parish of Brewood, Staffordshire, by Catherine, daughter of Sir Walter Leveson, was born at Wolverhampton in 1642.

Cat and Fiddle Inn

Various etymologies are claimed: some believe it is a corruption of le chat fidèle ('the faithful cat'); others (including Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable) that it comes from 'Caton le Fidèle' (a former governor of Calais); a third theory is that it derives from 'Catherine la Fidèle' (Catherine of Aragon).

Catherine Eddy Beveridge

Much to the chagrin of her role models and mentors, her mother Abby Eddy and her aunt Delia Caton Field, Catherine married Albert J. Beveridge, an Indiana Senator, in 1907.

Catherine Fillol

Catherine Fillol (or Filliol) (c. 1507 - c.1535) was the daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Fillol (1453 - 9 July 1527), of Woodlands, Horton, Dorset, and of Fillol's Hall, Essex.

Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues

Upon the King's death, his wife, Queen Marie de' Medici, was named Regent by Parliament, and immediately exiled Catherine from the royal court.

Catherine Howard, Countess of Nottingham

In July 1563, Catherine married Charles Howard (1536–1624), later 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral of England, and first Earl of Nottingham (1597).

Catherine McGeoch

Catherine Cole McGeoch is an American computer scientist specializing in empirical algorithmics and heuristics for NP-hard problems.

Catherine Walters

Catherine Walters died of a cerebral haemorrhage at her home at 15 South Street, Mayfair, and was buried in the graveyard of the Franciscan Monastery in Crawley, West Sussex.

Catherine, Lady Walpole

She was the granddaughter of Sir John Shorter (1625–1688), Lord Mayor of London in 1687.

Charles Bury, 2nd Earl of Charleville

Bury was the only son of Charles Bury, 1st Earl of Charleville, by Catherine Maria Dawson, daughter of Thomas Townley Dawson.

Charles Fountaine

He married in 1918, Louisa Constance Catherine, daughter of Sir Douglas Maclean, of Hawke's Bay in New Zealand.

Charles S. Fairfax

He was collaterally related to Thomas, the 6th Lord Fairfax, who relinquished his English estates to his brother, Robert, and emigrated to America, where he settled on a plantation of more than a million acres (4,000 km²) in Virginia, which he inherited from his mother, Catherine Colepeper.

Christopher Glynn

He has subsequently performed as a piano accompanist with singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Claire Booth, Allan Clayton, Lucy Crowe, Sophie Daneman, Bernarda Fink, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jonas Kaufmann, Yvonne Kenny, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Joan Rodgers, Kate Royal, Toby Spence, Bryn Terfel, Ailish Tynan, Roderick Williams and Catherine Wyn Rogers.

Codex Eyckensis

The Codex is now on display in the St. Catherine church in Maaseik, Belgium.

Daniel Victor

He later followed that with the second single "The World is Darker" featuring Melissa Auf der Maur (of The Smashing Pumpkins, Hole and Auf der Maur), and then the driving rock song "Where We Are" featuring Rob Dickinson of the UK band, The Catherine Wheel.

Dorothea Diana of Salm

Wild- and Rhinegravine Diana Dorothea of Salm (25 July 1604 in Criechingen – 19 December 1672 in Wörth) was the daughter of Wild- and Rhinegrave John IX of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen and his wife, Baroness Anna Catherine of Criechingen and Puttigny.

Duke George of Oldenburg

As George was a younger son with little prospects of inheriting the Grand Dukedom of Oldenburg, he and Catherine lived in Tver, Russia.

Francis d'Aguilar

Francis' grandmother, Catherine Burton, was the daughter of Reverend Edward Burton, Vicar of Annaghdown, County Galway and Maria Margaretta Campbell, who it is claimed was descended from Louis XIV of France by a Countess of Montmorency.

George Boyle

George David Boyle was the eldest son of David Boyle, Lord Justice-General and President of the Court of Session in Scotland, by his second marriage with Camilla Catherine, eldest daughter of David Smythe, Lord Methven, and was born in 1828.

Hercule, Duke of Montbazon

François de Rohan, Prince of Soubise (1630 – 24 August 1712) married Cathérine Lyonne and had no issue; married again to Anne de Rohan-Chabot, Princess of Soubise, and had issue; founder of the Soubise line of the House of Rohan;

House of Roquefeuil-Blanquefort

It was named after its possession at Blanquefort and a inheritance from Catherine de Roquefeuil in 1381, and its members included

Isaac Colfe

Colfe was the fourth son of Amandus, Almantius, or Aymon Colfe and his wife, Catherine Bradfield, and uncle of Abraham Colfe.

Jacques Fath

It was operated in its last days by his widow, who presented her first well-regarded collection for the fashion house in 1955 and who worked with three of her husband's former associates: Catherine Brivet (who previously had worked for Paul Poiret, Jean Patou, Pierre Balmain, Coco Chanel, and Cristóbal Balenciaga), Pierrey Metthey, and Suzanne Renoult (a fabric expert who had worked for Lucien Lelong, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Gaston Worth).

James Levingston, 1st Earl of Newburgh

Livingston married firstly before 1648 Catherine Stuart, widow of George, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny and daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk.

John King, 1st Baron Kingston

King married Catherine (died 1669), daughter of Sir William Fenton, of Mitchelstown, County Cork, and left two sons, Robert (died. 1693) and John successively second and third lords Kingston.

John Lewis Ricardo

In 1841 he married Catherine Duff (c.1820 – 1869), the daughter of General Sir Alexander Duff and sister of James Duff, 5th Earl Fife.

John Merlin Powis Smith

On 19 September 1899, Smith married Catherine McKlveen in Chariton, Iowa.

John W. Rollins

He was married three times, to Kitty, Linda Kuechler, and Michele Metrinko, and had ten children including John W., Jr., James, Catherine, Patrick, Ted, Jeff, Michele, Monique, Michael and Marc, as well as eleven grandchildren, John III, Jamie, Fontayne, Charlie, Rachel, Katie, Sarah, Emma, Kaitlyn, William, and Morgan.

John West, 4th Earl De La Warr

Lord De La Warr married Catherine Lyell, daughter of Henry Lyell, of Bourne, Cambridgeshire, a Swedish nobleman who had emigrated to England.

Joseph Potaski

Catherine and Edward had a large family, and eventually migrated to Lara, Victoria.

KGB Security Troops

Yevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia — Past, Present, and Future Farrar Straus Giroux (1994) ISBN 0-374-52738-5.

Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart

Ismay Catherine Crichton-Stuart (23 December 1909 - 1989); she married, firstly, John Anthony Hardinge Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury on 1 October 1930, but they divorced in 1936, having produced one son together.

Michael Hobart Seymour

He was born on 29 September 1800, the sixth son of John Crossley Seymour, vicar of Caherelly (d. 19 May 1831), who married in January 1789 Catherine, eldest daughter and coheiress of Rev. Edward Wight, rector of Meelick in Limerick.

Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé

He was born at Quebec City in 1786, the son of seigneur Pierre-Ignace Aubert de Gaspé and Catherine Tarieu de Lanaudière, the daughter of seigneur Charles-François Tarieu de La Naudière.

Ratzinger Foundation

Reverend Professor Brian E. Daley, S.J., an American Jesuit who is Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana.

Richard Olivier de Longueil

Richard Olivier de Longueil was born in Lisieux on December 18, 1406, the son of Guillaume III de Longueil, sieur of Eu, and his second wife, Catherine de Bourguenole.

Seychelles Coast Guard

In May 2011, the SCG helped to protect the privacy of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge during their honeymoon on the North Island.

Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet

She died on 1 January 1736, and he married his second wife, Catherine Ramsden (died 5 January 1778), the daughter of Sir William Ramsden, 2nd Baronet, later the same year on 17 August 1736.

Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow

# Ulrik (30 December 1578 – 27 March 1624 in Rühn), last Bishop of the old Schleswig see (1602–1624), and as Ulrich II Lutheran Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Schwerin (1603–1624), married with Lady Catherine Hahn-Hinrichshagen

St. Catherines Island

David Hurst Thomas has focused on Spanish period mission archaeology on St. Catherine's Island.

Steven Hirsch

In 2011, Hirsch offered $5,000,000 (£3,000,000) to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge's sister, Pippa Middleton, to take part in an adult movie.

Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath

Known by the courtesy title Viscount Weymouth from birth, he was born at The Stable Yard, St James's, London, the eldest son of John Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath, by the Honourable Frances Isabella Catherine Vesey, daughter of Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci.

To the Devil a Daughter

Verney learns that the order really harbours a group of practicing Satanists who have prepared Catherine to become an avatar of Astaroth upon her eighteenth birthday.

Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg

As Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Schwerin he was succeeded by his grandson the last Bishop of Schleswig, Prince Ulrich of Denmark (30 December 1578 – 27 March 1624 in Rühn), who married with Lady Catherine Hahn-Hinrichshagen.

Wheel of death

Breaking wheel, or Catherine wheel, a torture and execution device


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