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unusual facts about Isabella, Countess of Brienne



Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos

Henry's successor, Isabella and her husband Ferdinand used the Alcázar for one of the first permanent tribunals of the Spanish Inquisition and as a headquarters for their campaign against the Nasrid dynasty in Granada, the last remaining Moorish kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula.

Amalric, Prince of Tyre

Amalric de Lusignan or Amaury II de Lusignan, Prince of Tyre (c. 1272 – June 5, 1310, Nicosia), of the Lusignan family, was a son of Hugh III of Cyprus and Isabella of Ibelin.

Anton Hegarty

Hegarty was born on 14 December 1892, in Derry, Ireland, the son of Isabel (Isabella) and John Hegarty.

Auxiliaries

The Auxiliary Legion was a British military force sent to Spain to support the Liberals and Queen Isabella II of Spain against the Carlists in the First Carlist War.

Charles Eugene Flandrau

Martha Macomb Flandrau married Tilden Russell Selmes, and their daughter, Isabella Selmes was the first female congresswoman from Arizona, under her married name Isabella Greenway.

Charles Monck, 1st Viscount Monck

:::::* Anne Isabella, who married, as his third wife, Sir Cornwallis Maude, later Viscount Hawarden on 3 June 1777.

Descendants of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon

The Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt connection also provides the descent of Albert II, Prince of Monaco from Isabella I and Ferdinand II.

Dominic Salvatore Gentile

On January 28, 1951, he was killed when he crashed in a T-33A-1-LO Shooting Star trainer, 49-905, in Forestville, Maryland, leaving behind his wife Isabella Masdea Gentile Beitman (deceased October 2008), and sons Don Jr., Joseph and Pasquale.

Earl of Bath

Granville was the only son of Charles Granville, 2nd Earl of Bath, by his second wife Isabella, sister of Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham.

Edward, Duke of Guimarães

Infante Edward, 5th Duke of Guimarães, son of Infante Edward, 4th Duke of Guimarães and his wife, Isabella of Braganza, never married

Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara

Isabella (1474–1539), who would later prove to be one of the most powerful women of the Renaissance

Expulsion of the Jews from Portugal

On 5 December 1496, under the pressure of the newly born Spanish State through the clause Marriage of Isabella, Princess of Asturias, King Manuel I of Portugal decreed that all Jews had to convert to Christianity or leave the country.

Ferdinand of Aragon

Ferdinand II of Aragon, who married Isabella of Castile to become king of Spain, (1452–1516)

Granadan school of sculpture

Gothic sculptures were brought to Granada in the era of the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella.

Helen Thompson Woolley

The middle of three children to parents David and Isabella (neè Perkins) Thompson, she graduated first in her class from Englewood High School in 1893 with a ninety-seven percent average for her four years.

Henry Davis Sleeper

Isabella Stewart Gardner commissined work from him; Henry Francis du Pont engaged his assistance with the big new wing of the family's massive Delaware house, Winterthur, now a famed museum of American decorative arts; he designed for Hollywood stars Joan Crawford and Fredric March.

Hugh Mackay, 14th Lord Reay

With his second wife Victoria Isabella, youngest daughter of the late 2nd Baron Bruntisfield, he had two daughters.

Isabella Bendidio

Isabella Bendidio (Marchesa Bentivoglio) (13 September 1546 – after 1610) was a Ferrarese noblewoman who, along with her sister Lucrezia Bendidio, sang in the first incarnation of the concerto delle donne as part of the court's musica secreta.

Isabella Braña

Isabella was a mentally ill woman who had an affair with Christine Blair's (Lauralee Bell) husband Paul Williams (Doug Davidson), resulting in the birth of their son Ricky Williams.

Isabella Dam

State Route 178, which travels through the canyon between Bakersfield and Lake Isabella, became unstable, and one lane was closed due to the high water levels.

Isabella de Warenne

Isabella was the second of three children born to John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey and his wife Alice de Lusignan, Countess of Surrey, maternal half-sister of Henry III of England.

Isabella Greenway

Shortly thereafter, while the Roosevelts were on their honeymoon, Isabella married Robert Munro-Ferguson, the younger brother of Ronald Munro-Furguson.

Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Germany

On 11 May 1315, Isabella married Frederick I of Austria, King of Germany in Ravensburg.

Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy

With her husband, and accompanied by the Countess of Namur, Jeanne de Harcourt, Isabella then travelled through the main territories of Burgundy: from Ghent (16 January) to Kortrijk (13 February) to Lille, and then to Brussels, Arras, Péronne-en-Mélantois, Mechelen and, by mid-March Noyon, where Isabella, now pregnant, chose to rest through the spring, only leaving when Joan of Arc led a campaign against the nearby Compiègne.

Isabella Russell-Ides

An innovative performance poet, Isabella Russell-Ides was notable presence in the "Third Coast Renaissance" in Austin, Texas.

Isabella Stewart Gardner

In the Titian Room, Titian's magnificent painting of Europa (1561–1562) hangs above a piece of pale green silk, which had been cut from one of Isabella Stewart Gardner's gowns designed by Charles Frederick Worth.

John D. McKenzie

He was born in Gilby, North Dakota, the son of Alexander McKenzie and Isabella Douglas.

Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda

The Valladolid Controversy was organized by King Charles V (grandson of Ferdinand and Isabella) to give an answer to the question whether the Native Americans were capable of self-governance.

Kanyaka Station

He was born on 9 April 1826 at Stamford in Lincolnshire, England, the third son of Admiral Granville Leveson Proby (the third Earl of Carysfort of Ireland) and Isabella Howard.

Kristie Phillips

Phillips lives in Troutman, North Carolina with her husband recording artist Horatio Bannister and three children: Sebastian, Isabella and Eberlie.

Lake Isabella

Lake Isabella can be reached by car from Bakersfield via state Highway 178 and from Delano via Highway 155.

Lake Isabella, California

The town of Isabella was founded by Steven Barton in 1893 and named in honor of Queen Isabella of Spain while her name was current during the 1893 Columbian Exposition.

Luca Sbisa

Sbisa was born in Ozieri, a city on the island of Sardinia, Italy, the first son and second child of Massimo and Isabella Sbisa.

Nadolny

Sten Nadolny (* 1942), German novelist, son of Burkhard and Isabella Nadolny

Paulette McDonagh

Paulette de Vere McDonagh (1901–1978), was an Australian film director, who often worked in collaboration with her sisters Phyllis and Isabella.

Peter, Duke of Coimbra

From Venice he then travelled to Rome, where he was received by Pope Martin V, and from there he continued to Barcelona, where he negotiated the marriage of his brother Edward with Eleanor of Aragon as well as his own future marriage with Isabella of Urgell, before finally returning to Portugal.

Phyllis McDonagh

Phyllis Glory McDonagh (1900–1978), was an Australian film producer and production designer, who often worked in collaboration with her sisters Paulette and Isabella.

Princess Anne of Orléans

Margherita Isabella Maria Vittoria Emanuela Elena Gennara (born April 7 1930 at Capodimonte Palace).

Princess Isabella of Croÿ

A decade later, Archduchess Isabella created a similar furor when her nephew, Karl, 13th Prince von Croÿ, of the House of Croÿ, sought to marry Nancy Leishman, the charming young daughter of United States Ambassador to Germany John George Alexander Leishman, the former president of Carnegie Steel.

Queen Mary

Maria of Montferrat (1192–1212), queen regnant of Jerusalem, daughter of Isabella I of Jerusalem and Conrad of Montferrat and mother of Isabella II of Jerusalem

Robert de Romille

William and Isabella had three sons who all died without issue so the heir was their daughter Aveline de Forz.

Romilda Pantaleoni

In 1874 Pantaleoni sang the role of Isabella in the world premiere of Antônio Carlos Gomes' Salvator Rosa at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.

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.

Tredunnock

The graveyard contains the tomb of Isabella Gill, wife of Rev John Philip Gill and only daughter of Sir John Franklin pioneer of the Northwest Passage.

Walchelin de Ferriers

Hugh had left England and the care of Lechlade and Oakham went to their sister, Isabella, who was married to Roger de Mortimer of Wigmore.

Walter Comyn, Lord of Badenoch

Isabella remained countess until 1260–1261, when Walter Stewart, husband of Isabella's sister Mary, seized the province.

Wheeler Hazard Peckham

Peckham was born in Albany, New York, on New Year's Day, 1833 to Rufus Wheeler Peckham and Isabella Adoline; his mother died when he was 15.


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