Image from De mulieribus claris Megullia, surnamed Dotata ('richly dowered'), was an ancient Roman noblewoman.
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A kind of family federation. One became Duke of Great Poland (around Gniezno), another Silesia, another Cracow, another, half-heathen Masovia. The rising local magnates, dowered with estates, preferred provincial princes. But the division of loyalties among these princes brought on a long period of dynastic struggle, intrigue, and national weakness.
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C. Warren Hollister and Thomas K. Keefe, 'The Making of the Angevin Empire', Journal of British Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2 (May, 1973), pp. 10-11 Fulk dowered the couple with the lordship of Maine. Meanwhile, after her husband's death Matilda remained at Henry's court and was treated as one of the king's daughters.
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His success was not great, but he prospered by a second marriage with a widow dowered with £800 a year. Genest gives a list of upwards of eighty characters which Francis Aickin was accustomed to assume. Both Atckins and his brother James were members of the School of Garrick, a club composed of actors who were contemporaries of David Garrick.
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With the help of gardener - Jan Zalauf from the Kingdom of Bohemia, he created a beautiful landscaped gardens with aviary and orangery, just next to the castle. After Antoni's death in 1831 the estate became a property of his daughter Emilia. Two years later she married Lord Paweł Popiel and was dowered with a house, where they later lived. Prior to moving in a complete renovation of interiors was carried out.
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The widowed Countess was barely twenty and richly dowered. Many a wooer "sought to console her with a new prospect of wedded happiness". But she refused them all and for seventeen years she lived, "a model of all that is beautiful in womanhood, captivating all hearts by her sweetness and graciousness, and by a beauty which sorrow only served to refine and make more lovely still". In 1745, when still young the Countess became involved in a scandal.
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He was the eldest son and heir of Walter II Beke, of Eresby, by his wife Eve de Grey, a niece of Walter de Gray (d.1255), Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor. Walter II was a son of Henry Beke, "weak of understanding",Duchess of Cleveland who nevertheless "found a well born and richly dowered bride",Beke, T Alice de Multon, sister of Thomas de Multon. Henry Beke was a son of Walter I Beke (fl.12th.
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Louise Stallings toured on the Chautauqua circuit with the Boston Opera Singers Company."Louise Stallings to Head Company" Lyceum News (March 1919): 264. When Stallings gave a recital at New York's Aeolian Hall in 1921, the New York Times commented that she was "dark and slender, dowered by nature with a low sweet voice, whose honeyed quality would be cloying but for her varied use of it in modest amounts.""Louise Stalling's First Recital" New York Times (April 6, 1921).
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A concubine was a free woman, often dowered for marriage, and her children were legitimate and lawful heirs. She could only be divorced on the same conditions as a wife. If a wife became a chronic invalid, the husband was bound to maintain her in the home they had made together, unless she preferred to take her dowry and return to her father's house; but he was free to remarry. Again, the children of the new wife were legitimate and lawful heirs.
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Temple priests were not supposed to have children, yet they could marry and often did. The Code contemplated that such a wife would give a husband a maid, as above. Free women might marry slaves and still be dowered for the marriage. The children were free, and at the slave's death, the wife took her dowry and half of what she and her husband had acquired in wedlock for self and children; the master taking the other half, as his slave's heir.
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In Romania between the 1750s and the 1830s, the exclusion of dowered women from the family inheritance led to increased cohesion within the nuclear family. The wife's male relatives controlled the dowry but she retained sole ownership of the dowry and wedding gifts. Her relatives could prosecute the husband for squandering a dowry; wives gained some ability to leave an abusive marriage. The long-term result was a greater legal empowerment of women while providing economic security to divorced women, widows, and children.
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In Romania in the late 18th and early 19th centuries (1750–1830s) the exclusion of dowered girls from the family inheritance led to increased cohesion within the nuclear family. The wife's male relatives controlled the dowry but she retained sole ownership of the dowry and wedding gifts. Her relatives could prosecute the husband for squandering a dowry; wives gained some ability to leave an abusive marriage. The long-term result was a greater legal empowerment of women, while providing economic security to divorced women, widows, and children.
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Theological Virgues, at the Golden Gallery at the Palacio Ducal de Gandía.Gaspar de la Huerta (1645–1714) was a Spanish artist born at Campillo de Altobuey in Cuenca. At an early age, seeking instruction in Valencia, he fell into the hands of Jesualda Sanchez, the bustling widow of Pedro Infant, a third-rate painter, who continued on her own account her husband's school for the manufacture of religious pictures. La Huerta, nevertheless, attained some skill as a draughtsman and colourist, and married the widow's well-dowered daughter.
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Nevertheless, he recognized new developments in warfare and implemented them throughout his career. At the Beresina River in 1812, he made excellent use of reverse slope defenses showing that he learned something from Wellington. On the contrary in his book “Napoleon and His Marshals” MacDonell calls Victor a stupid soldier. He claims the closest Victor ever came to victory is when he changed his name from Perrin into Victor. Dunn-Pattison says of him “Not specially dowered by fortune with talents for war” but does praise his courage and sense of honor.
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Not only did Thomas have older brothers, he was but one of the twenty-one acknowledged children of Charles Emmanuel. While only nine of these were legitimate, the others, being the widowed duke's offspring by noble mistresses, appear to have been generously endowed or dowered during their father's lifetime. The fief of Carignano had belonged to the Savoys since 1418, and the fact that it was part of Piedmont, only twenty km. south of Turin, meant that it could be a "princedom" for Thomas in name only, being endowed neither with independence nor revenues of substance.
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They reaped not where they laboured, We reap what they have sown; Our harvest may be garnered, By ages yet unknown. The days of old have dowered us With gifts beyond all praise, Our Father make us faithful To serve the coming days. Before us and beside us, Still holden by Thy hand, A cloud of unseen witness, Our elder comrades stand; One family unbroken, We join in one acclaim; One heart, one voice uplifting To glorify Thy name. School Crest The official heraldic description of the crest is: Azure, a saltire argent, in chief keys, in base a tiger's face.
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A complex agreement was drawn up between England and Burgundy, covering mutual defence, trade, currency exchange, fishing rights and freedom of travel, all based on the marriage between the Duke and Margaret. By the terms of the marriage contract, Margaret retained her rights to the English throne, and her dowry was promised to Burgundy even if she died within the first year (often, the dowry would return to the bride's family under such circumstances). For his own part, Charles dowered Margaret with the cities of Mechelen, Oudenaarde and Dendermonde. The marriage contract was completed in February 1468, and signed by Edward IV in March.
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While only nine of these were legitimate, the others, being the widowed duke's offspring by noble mistresses, appear to have been generously endowed or dowered during their father's lifetime. The fief of Carignano had belonged to the Savoys since 1418, and the fact that it was part of Piedmont, only twenty kilometers south of Turin, meant that it could be a "princedom" for Thomas in name only, being endowed neither with independence nor revenues of substance. Instead of receiving a significant patrimony, Thomas was wed in 1625 to Marie de Bourbon, sister and co-heiress of Louis, Count of Soissons, who would be killed in 1641 while fomenting rebellion against Cardinal Richelieu.
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Conservative politicians, it has been said, asked themselves awkward questions: > How could Parliamentarians be expected to trust an ex-Premier who, when > half-way between sixty and seventy, instead of occupying his leisure, in > accordance with the British convention, in classical, historical, or > constitutional studies, produced a gaudy romance of the peerage, so written > as to make it almost impossible to say how much was ironical or satirical, > and how much soberly intended?…[It] revived all the former doubts as to > whether a Jewish literary man, so dowered with imagination, and so > unconventional in his outlook, was the proper person to lead a Conservative > party to victory.W. F. Monypenny and George Earle Buckle The Life of > Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (London: Macmillan, 1912–22) vol. 5, > pp. 169–70, 172.
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Up, through sorrow and toil Thou hast struggled, my beautiful mother, Life wars, lures of the dust, pangs of becoming, flashes Of world-hate conquered and broken, twice purged by refining fires Phoenix-like, dowered with truth, Thou hast risen in strength from the ashes. Loyal are they and true, the sons of thy blest begetting, Proud with a son's just pride, loving, swift to defend, Doing God's work and thine in the fields of the world forever Till the hand of the sower be stayed and the song of the reaper shall end. White on thy mountain top thou shinest, my beautiful mother, Tented by sapphire skies and cloudbergs fashioned in gold, Gazing with thoughtful eyes o'er the vale to the world's last border Where the battle of Being is red and the new life wars with the old. Potent and wise are they who trim thy torch for the burning, Consecrate priests of the truth, masters of lore and deed, Pouring the miracle cruse that richer grows with the pouring, Making the base things high, sowing the perfect seed.
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As the events were eagerly attended by foreign diplomats, Lord Palmerston would encourage his wife to float his ideas before the assembled guests and report back on their reception as a means of unofficially testing the diplomatic waters before committing himself publicly to an opinion.Bolton, pages 86–87 She could not cure his notorious lack of punctuality, since this was a fault she shared to the full; Queen Victoria, while staying with them at Broadlands, complained that Emily had kept her waiting for an hour for a carriage ride. It was a standing joke in London society that they were always so late for dinner that neither of them had ever heard of soup. Psychologically the two were very well-matched. biographer Herbert Bell states: :If Palmerston brought the greater sum of knowledge and pure intellect to the partnership, his lady was richly dowered in other qualities: sound sense and delicate sensibilities, warmed by beauty and good-heartedness into charm; shrewdness, so linked with impulsiveness that one wonders still how far her ‘indiscretions’ were planned for affect; earnestness and enthusiasm that admit of no such doubt.
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