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Margravin
"Margravin" in a Sentence (14 examples)
On the 14th the Margravin Philipe gives a great Entertainment to the King and the new married Pair; […]
It [English] is alſo underſtood or ſpoken by moſt Perſons of Diſtinction, either for Birth, Letters or Taſte in Europe; and we know that her Royal Highneſs the Margravin of Bayreuth, the Princeſs Amalia, Siſters to the King of Pruſſia; the Princeſs of Waldeck, Madam Godtſchedin, and others renouned for their Wit in Germany; the learned Marquis Nicolini, Marquis Maffei, Count Algarotti &c. in Italy, with Madame de Bocage, Mr. Voltaire, Mr. D’Alembert, in France, and many other great Names, glory in the Knowledge of it; […]
Upon an ample extended canvas exhibiting for a background the inside of a well-designed library and museum – I would have in full length and that standing in the middle (to give greater effect to the figure) her Serene Highness the Reigning Margravin. […] Upon a table near the Margravin, but particularly, in the hand of Her Highness is to be some conspicuous and interesting fossil or other subject in natural history, […] Near the Margravin and on the right side should be painted the figure of His Highness the Margrave himself, sitting with an ease and grace not difficult for an artist to imitate.
*Princeſs Louiſa / *Rad Van Staate / *Roſe de Holland / *Margravin Van Anſpach
Margravin, ſ. markgraavin, f.
The philosopher dwells with apparent satisfaction on this subject, especially on the exemplary friendship which the king had for his sister, the Margravin of Bayreuth.
Barretier, had been distinguished much more early by the margravin of Anspach, who, in 1726, sent for his father and mother to the court, where their son, whom they carried with them, presented her with a letter in French, and addressed another in Latin to the young prince; […]
Eene Markgravin. A Margravin.
The castle was at that time the residence of margravin Maria Francisca, a princess of Fürstenberg, and widow of margrave Leopold, who, along with Stahrenberg and Montecuculi, had acquired great military renown, and died in Hungary in 1671. […] Relying upon this promise, the princess returned to her residence at Baden, which the french troops entered that very day, pretending that they were ordered to serve the margravin for a safeguard. […] The French enquiring everywhere after prince Leopold, the margravin began to be apprehensive, and removed him, by her confessor, to Forbach.
Frederika Louisa, Margravin of Anspach, 9. […] Wilhelmina, Margravin of Bayreuth, her memoirs, 9.
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Behind the altar the tomb of the Margravin Sophie von Brandenburg, who died here 1639.
Viktoria Luise, just two words. But my registered names were altogether a little longer. In full, they were Viktoria Luise Adelheid Mathilde Charlotte, Princess of Prussia, Margravin of Brandenburg, Burggravin of Nuremberg, Princess of Hohenzollern, Duchess of Schleswig and Glatz, Duchess of Niederrhein and Posen, Duchess of Saxony, Westphalia and Engern, Pomerania, Lüneburg, Holstein and Schleswig, Magdeburg, Bremen, Geldern, Cleve, Jülich and Berg as well as Wenden and Cassuben, Crossen, Lauenburg, Mecklenburg, Landgravin of Hesse and Thuringia, Margravin of Upper and Lower Lausitz, Princess of Orange, Princess of Rügen, Ostfriesland, Paderborn and Pyrmont, of Halberstadt, Münster, Minden, Osnabrück, Hildesheim, Verden, Cammin, Fulda, Nassau and Mörs, Princess of Henneberg, Countess of the Mark of Ravensburg, Hohenstein, Tecklenburg and Lingen, of Mansfeld, Sigmaringen and Veringen, and Mistress of Frankfurt.
At Brandenburgh House, on 30 May and 7 June The Robbers was performed in the Margravin of Anspach’s private theatre, in a version without "the Jacobinical speeches that abound in the Original".
It was not that there was any lack of powerful and energetic women in the eleventh century otherwise: only think of the part played by another Adela, uxor saevissima (‘fiercest of wives’), in Lampert’s account of the rebellion of Dedi, or the Margravin Gertrude, prepotens per Saxoniam vidua, marchionissa Saxonica nobilissima et potentissima (‘a widow dominant throughout Saxony, the most noble and most powerful Saxon margravin’).
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