Marie-Madeleine Gabrielle Ad�la�de de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1645 � 15 August 1704) was a French nun from the House of Rochechouart. The abbess of Fontevraud Abbey, she was an influential figure in the 17th century French intellectual community. She was the daughter of Gabriel de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart, and thus sister to Madame de Montespan.


Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de la Peltrie (1603 � 18 November 1671) was a French woman who started the Order of Ursulines of Quebec.Chauvigny, Marie-Madeleine de (Gruel de La Peltrie), secular founder of the Ursulines of Quebec, born in Alen�on (France) in 1603, daughter of Guillaume de Chauvigny, lord of the said place and of Vaubougon, and of Damsel Jeanne Du Bouchet, deceased in Quebec on November 18, 1671.


Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne (1498 � 28 April 1519) was a younger daughter of Jean III de La Tour (1467� 28 March 1501), Count of Auvergne and Lauraguais, and Jeanne de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon (1465�1511). She was a penultimate representative of the senior branch of the house de La Tour d'Auvergne. Madeleine is best known for being the mother of Catherine de' Medici, the future Queen of France. She married Duke Lorenzo II de' Medicis in Ch�teau d'Amboise on 5 May 1518.


Magdalena Catherine, Countess Palatine of Zweibr�cken (German: Magdalena Katharina von Pfalz-Zweibr�cken)(26 April 1607, � 20 January 1648) was a Countess Palatine of Zweibr�cken by birth and by marriage Duchess and Countess Palatine of Birkenfeld.Magdalena Catherine was the only child of the Duke and Count Palatine John II of Zweibr�cken-Veldenz (1584�1635) from his first marriage to Catherine de Rohan (1578�1607), daughter of Ren� II, de Rohan. From the second marriage of his father, she had seven half-siblings, of whom the oldest half-brother, Frederick inherited their father's position as Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibr�cken.She married on 14 November 1630 in Zweibr�cken Count Palatine and Duke Christian I of Birkenfeld (1598�1654). They had 8 children



Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (14 February 1640 � 12 December 1693) was a daughter of Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (1598�1654) and his first wife, Countess Palatine Magdalene Catherine of Zweibr�cken (1606�1648). Anna Magdalena was born in Strasbourg. She married, on 18 October 1659, Johann Reinhard II of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1628�1666), a posthumous member of the House of Hanau, who never came to the throne. The marriage produced five children



Countess Magdalena Elisabeth of Hanau-M�nzenberg (28 March 1611 � 26 February 1687) was a German noblewoman. She was a daughter of Count Albert of Hanau-M�nzenberg-Schwarzenfels (1579-1635) and his wife, Countess Ehrengard of Isenburg (1577-1637). On 28 March 1636, she married the Imperial Cupbearer, George Frederick Schenk of Limpurg-Speckfeld (27 June 1596 � 5 December 1651). He was a son of Eberhard Schenk of Limpurg-Speckfeld (1560-1622) and Countess Catherine of Hanau-Lichtenberg. During the Thirty Years' War, George Frederick served in the armies of Ernst von Mansfeld and King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.Magdalena Elisabeth and George Frederick had at least three children


Magdalena Christina (1675�1715), Countesses of Sayn-Hachenburg also Burgravine consort of Kirchberg.


Magdalena of Lippe (25 February 1552 � 26 February 1587) was a German noblewoman. She was a Countess of Lippe by birth. By her marriage to George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt she was the first Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt.Magdalena was the daughter of Count Bernhard VIII of Lippe (1527�1563) from his marriage to Catherine (1524�1583), daughter of Count Philip III of Waldeck-Eisenberg. After her father's death, she moved to the court of Landgrave William IV of Hesse-Kassel, where she was regarded as a natural beauty. Here, she met George. She married him on 17 August 1572. William paid the expenses of the marriage. The marriage was a happy one.She died in 1587, after 15 years of marriage, at the age of 35. She died after the birth of her last child. She was buried in the choir of the city church of Darmstadt. Her famous epitaph can still be found behind the high altar. It was dedicated to her by her husband in 1589.Magdalena and George had ten children, of whom three sons and three daughters reached adulthood


Magdalene (1586�1586), daughter of Magdalena of Lippe and George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt



Magdalene (b. & d. 9 August 1620), daughter of Princess Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt (30 July 1601 � 6 May 1659)  and George, Duke of Brunswick-L�neburg



Magdalena Sybilla (1631�1651), daughter of George II of Hesse-Darmstadt (17 March 1605 � 11 June 1661) and  Sophia Eleonore of Saxony


Countess Palatine Claudia Magdalena of Zweibr�cken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (also known as Magdalena Claudine)(16 September 1668 � 28 November 1704), was the daughter of the Count Palatine Christian II of Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (22 June 1637- 26 April 1717). She married on 27 February [O.S. 17 February] 1689 in Hanau her cousin Count Philip Reinhard of Hanau-M�nzenberg (1664�1712). The dowry was 18000guilders. They had 3 children



 Countess Magdalena Moltke, 1st wife of German painter Franz Seraph Lenbach, after 1882, Ritter von Lenbach (13 December 1836 � 6 May 1904) In 1896, he and Magdalena were divorced, over suspicions of infidelity with her doctor, Ernst Schweninger,whom she did in fact later marry. Lenbach also remarried, to Charlotte von Hornstein, daughter of the composer Robert von Hornstein.


Magdalene of Brandenburg (1460 � 17 June 1496) was a German noblewoman. She was a princess of Brandenburg by birth and by marriage a Duchess of Hohenzollern.Magdalena was the only child of Margrave Frederick III of Brandenburg-Altmark (1424�1463) from his marriage to Agnes (1436�1512), daughter of the Duke Barnim VIII of Pomerania.She married on 17 June 1482 in the Berlin City Palace to Count Eitel Friedrich II of Hohenzollern (1452�1512). This marriage formed an important connection for the House of Hohenzollern, as it strengthened the bond between the Swabian and Brandenburg branches of the house. Magdalena became the ancestress of the Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen lines.They had 6 children


Magdalena (1553�1571), a nun in Holz Daughter of Karl I of Hohenzollern (1516 � 18 March 1576) and Anna of Baden-Durlach


Maria Magdalena (9 January 1574 � 2 January 1582), daughter of Charles II, Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1547 � 8 April 1606) and his 1st wife Euphrosyne of Oettingen-Wallerstein. (1552 � 5 October 1590)


Countess Magdalena Christina Stenbock, wife of Count Carl Julius De la Gardie


Maria Magdalena Catharina Augusta Armfelt, (1786�1845), countess. Daughter of Countess Hedvig Ulrika De la Gardie (1761�1832) and Count Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt (31 March 1757 � 19 August 1814)


Maria Magdalena Łubieńska, also known as Countess Łubieńska (1833�1920) was a Polish artist and educator, of noble descent.Łubieńska born in 1833 to business man Henryk Łubieński and his wife Irena (n�e Potocka).  At age 22, she married her cousin, Paweł Łubieński, who had one previous marriage, and together they had five children. It was common for Polish noble women at the time to learn skills like art making, however most ended the practice after marriage unless there were life circumstances that forced it as a livelihood.


Magdalena Stenbock (14 September 1649 � 24 January 1727), was a politically active Swedish countess and salon holder. She was married to Council President Count Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna. She was recognized as an important contact by foreign diplomats and promoted an anti-French and pro-Austrian policy through her spouse and his office. Magdalena Stenbock was born to Count Erik Stenbock, a descendant to Queen Catherine Stenbock, and Catharina von Schwerin. In 1667, she married riksr�d count Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna, who was appointed Council President in 1680. Her family belonged to the most powerful in Sweden, and she had a strong position at court through her connections: her stepmother Occa Johanna von Riperda served as Mistress of the Robes in 1671-80, her sister, Hedvig Eleonora Stenbock, served as maid of honor to the queen, and her three nieces also served as maid of honors, among them Beata Sparre, who became influential in her own right.Stenbock came to play an influential role in politics during the tenure of her spouse in office.



 Countess Madeleine de Brouchoven de Bergeyck, wife of  Baron Harold della Faille de Leverghem. Maternal grandmother of Hereditary Grand Duchess St�phanie of Luxembourg.


Countess Madeleine Douglas


Countess Madeleine Douglas (1886�1983) m. Charles-Louis Fouch� d'Otrante


Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset (23 March 1898 � 1 September 1984) was the titular Duchess of Parma and Piacenza (from 1974) and was also Carlist Queen of Spain (from 1952) as the consort of Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne. She was born of a cadet branch of the Bourbon Counts of Busset, male-line descendants of Louis de Bourbon (1437�1482), prince du sang, Bishop of Li�ge, allegedly by a liaison with Catherine de Gueldres Her father was Georges de Bourbon-Busset, Count de Ligni�res (1860�1932), and her mother Marie Jeanne n�e de Kerret-Quillien (1866�1958) Prince Xavier, a younger son of Robert I, Duke of Parma, and Madeleine were wed on 12 November 1927 at the ch�teau de Ligni�res in Cher. The marriage was accepted as dynastic at the time by neither Prince Elias of Bourbon-Parma (Xavier's elder half-brother, then acting head of the House of Bourbon-Parma), nor by the senior Bourbons of the Spanish branch (Alphonso XIII), but was later recognized by the Parmesan Duke Robert Hugo, and by the Carlist pretender Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime In 1936, Alfonso Carlos, the last undisputed head of the Carlist movement, appointed her husband Xavier as Carlist "regent". Madeleine actively supported her husband's political activities and social views The couple had 6 children



Magdalena Sophie Henriette (1852�1899), daughter of Ludvig (Ludwig) Wilhelm August Douglas (1849�1916) and Anna Ehrensv�rd She married Hans Freiherr von Meyern-Hohenberg


Madeleine Douglas ( 1939), daughter of Karl Robert of Douglas Langenstein (1880�1955) and his 1st wife Sofie von Fine Blaauw She married  1) Christoph Albert Eugen Ferdinand von Malais�;  2) John Denham;  3) Sir Raymond Hoffenberg. She had issue



Madeleine Lola Margaret Grand, daughter of Maj. Gen. Laurence Douglas Grand. She married Arthur Ponsonby, 11th Earl of Bessborough (11 December 1912 � 5 April 2002) as his 2nd wife They had two children




Countess Madeleine Bernadotte (b. 1938), daughter of  Carl Gustaf Oscar Fredrik Christian, Prince Bernadotte (10 January 1911 � 27 June 2003), originally Prince Carl, Duke of �sterg�tland and his 1st wife Countess Elsa von Rosen (1904�1991). Madeleine is the wife of Charles-Albert Ullens de Schooten Whettnall (1927-2006). They have issue.



Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette (baptized 18 March 1634 � 25 May 1693), better known as Madame de La Fayette, was a French writer; she authored La Princesse de Cl�ves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature. Christened Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, she was born in Paris to a family of minor but wealthy nobility. At 16, de la Vergne became the maid of honour to Queen Anne of Austria and began also to acquire a literary education from Gilles M�nage, who gave her lessons in Italian and Latin In 1655, de la Vergne married Fran�ois Motier, comte de La Fayette, a widowed nobleman some eighteen years her senior, with whom she had two sons


Madeleine (b. 1948), daughter of Carl-Herman Albert Gerhard Bussler (1918�1981) and Countess Gunilla Wachtmeister af Johannishus (12 May 1923 � 12 September 2016). Following her first husband's death her mother, on 29 September 1988, in Copenhagen  became the second wife of Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, a widower and the youngest son of King Gustaf VI Adolf and Princess Margaret of Connaught


 jonkvrouw Marie-Madeleine Kervyn d'Oud Mooreghem (1940), wife of Henri Joseph Adelin Fran�ois Xavier Marie count (2000) d�Udekem d'Acoz (1933), lord Mayor of Poperinge



Marie-Madeleine d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers (22 July 1630 � 16 July 1676) was a French aristocrat who was accused and convicted of murdering her father and two of her brothers in order to inherit their estates. After her death, there was speculation that she poisoned upwards of 30 sick people in hospitals to test out her poisons, but these rumors were never confirmed. Her alleged crimes were discovered after the death of her lover and co-conspirator, Captain Godin de Sainte-Croix, who saved letters detailing dealings of poisonings between the two. After being arrested, she was tortured, forced to confess, and finally executed. Her trial and death spawned the onset of the Affair of the Poisons, a major scandal during the reign of Louis XIV accusing aristocrats of practicing witchcraft and poisoning people. Components of her life have been adapted into various different mediums including: short stories, poems, and songs to name a few.


Marie Madeleine de Vignerot du Pont de Courlay, Duchesse d'Aiguillon (1604 � 17 April 1675) was a French aristocrat, also remembered for her charitable work and her patronage of artists and mathematicians. Courlay was the daughter of Cardinal Richelieu's sister, Fran�oise du Plessis, and her husband Ren� du Vignerot. In 1620 Courlay married a nephew of the constable de Luynes, Antoine de Beauvoir du Roure, sieur de Combalet, who died in 1622. In 1625, through her uncle's influence, she was made a lady-in-waiting (dame d'atour) to the queen-mother Marie de Medici, and in 1638 was created duchess of Aiguillon The Duchess did not marry a second time, although Richelieu wished to marry her to a prince, either to the comte de Soissons or to the king's brother. After the death of the cardinal in 1642, the Duchess retained her honours and titles, but withdrew from the court and devoted herself entirely to works of charity. She became a patron of work involving science and the arts, providing funding for many notable initiatives. She died on 17 April 1675

Joanna of Austria (German Johanna von �sterreich, Italian Giovanna d'Austria) (24 January 1547 � 11 April 1578) was an Archduchess of Austria. By marriage to Francesco I de' Medici, she was the Grand Princess of Tuscany and later the Grand Duchess of Tuscany. One of her daughters was Marie de' Medici, second wife of King Henry IV of France.Joanna was born in Prague, the youngest of 15 children, the youngest daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. Her marriage to Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, took place on 18 December 1565 in Florence They had 8 children


Countess Johanna Tyszkiewicz


Countess Johanna of Oettingen-Oettingen


Countess Johanna of Hanau-M�nzenberg (1610 � 13 September 1673) was a daughter of Count Albert of Hanau-M�nzenberg-Schwarzenfels and Countess Ehrengard of Isenburg (1577 � 1637). Hanau-M�nzenberg-Schwarzenfels was a cadet branch of Hanau-M�nzenberg. Johanna of Hanau-M�nzenberg married twice From September 1637 with Wild- and Rhinegrave Wolfgang Friedrich of Salm (1589 � 24 December 1638). The marriage did not produce offspring. On 14 December 1646 with Prince Manuel Ant�nio of Portugal (1600 � 1666), a Dutch-Portuguese nobleman with family relationship to the House of Orange-Nassau. Their relation produced 2 children


Countess Johanna von Westphalen zu Fuerstenberg (German: Johanna Reichsgr�fin von Westphalen zu F�rstenberg; Johanna Paula Alphonsa Josepha Antonia Huberta Maria de Mercede Cosmas und Damian; n�e von Galen)( 24 September 1936 � 21 January 2016) was a German conservative politician and Catholic activist. A member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, she was active in the anti-abortion movement and a patron of Catholic institutions. She was knighted by Pope John Paul II in 2002 as a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.Von Westphalen was born Countess Johanna von Galen on 24 September 1936 at Haus Assen, her family's castle in Westphalia. She was a member of the Galen family, an ancient German noble family that was elevated to the rank of Imperial Count during the Holy Roman Empire. Von Westphalen's father, Christoph Bernhard, Count of Galen, was the head of the House of Galen and served in the Papal household. Her mother, Countess Marie-Sophie Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, was a member of the Czech noble family Kinsky. Von Westphalen was married to Count August von Westphalen zu F�rstenberg and had six children.



Johanna of Hanau-Lichtenberg, Countess of Eberstein (1507 � 27 January 1572) was a German noblewoman, the eldest daughter of Philipp III, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (18 October 1482 � 15 May 1538) and Margravine Sibylle of Baden (26 April 1485 � 10 July 1518). Johanna was married on 6 November 1522 to Count Wilhelm IV of Eberstein (3 May 1497 � 1 July 1562). Her husband chaired the Reichskammergericht from 1546 to 1555. Johanna and William are mentioned several times in the Zimmern Chronicle They had 10 children



Countess Johanna of Pfirt, daughter of Count Ulrich III of Pfirt. She married Albert II, Duke of Austria. They had 6 children


Johanna Katharina Victoria, Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (n�e Countess Johanna Katharina Victoria von Montfort-Tettnang) (9 October 1678 - 26 January 1759) was a German noblewoman and consort of Meinrad II. She served as the regent of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen on behalf of her son, Joseph Friedrich Ernst, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, from 1715 until 1720.Johanna Katharina von Montfort was born on 9 October 1678 to Count Johann Anton I of Montfort-Tettnang and Countess Maria Viktoria von Spaur und FlavonOn 22 November 1700 she married Meinrad II, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. They had four children


Maria Johanna (13 November 1726 � 9 April 1793), a nun in Buchau.Daughter of Prince Joseph Ernst Friedrich Karl Anton Meinrad of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (24 May 1702  � 8 December 1769) and  his 1st wife Maria Franziska Louise of Oettingen-Spielberg (21 May 1703 � 29 November 1737)


Countess Johanna Feststics von Tolna (1830�1884), daughter of Count Ernst Johann Wilhelm Festetics von Tolna and Baroness Johanna Clara Maria Josepha Kotz von Dobrz She became the second wife of Prince Adolf Wilhelm Carl Daniel von Auersperg (21 July 1821 � 5 January 1885). They had a son.


Princess Johanna von Auersperg (1890�1967), daughter of Karl Maria Alexander, 9th Prince of Auersperg, Duke of Gottschee (26 February 1859  - 19 October 1927 ) and  Countess Eleonore von Breunner-Enkevoirth   She married (1917) to Count Rudolf of Meran, son of Count Franz of Meran and Countess Theresia von Lamberg (1836�1913)


Countess Maria Johanna (1865�1935) daughter of Countess Theresia von Lamberg (1836�1913) and Franz, Count of Meran (11 March 1839 � 27 March 1891)


Princess Marie Johanna Franziska Sophie (21 August 1877 �11 January 1939); daughter of Prince Louis of Liechtenstein and his 1st wife  Marie Fox She married in Vienna on 7 June 1902 Count Franz Peter Johann of Meran, Baron of Brandhofen ( 5 October 1868 � 10 November 1949), son of Franz, Count of Meran (1868�1949), and had six children


Johanna Sophia Herre (8 July 1706 � 5 June 1796), was the morganatic wife of William Gustav, Hereditary Prince of Dessau, and later Imperial Countess (German: Reichsgr�fin) of Anhalt. On her mother's side, Johanna Sophia Herre comes from a long-established and wealthy family of merchants and pharmacists. Her mother, Katharina Dorothea Starke (died 1767), was the daughter of the respected Rector of the Dessau Latin school. Her father, Christian Herre (1646�1720), formerly Mayor of Je�nitz �he had acquired his fortune as a merchant and heir from a previous marriage� continued his successful business after his second marriage with Katharina Dorothea Starke in 1691. How and where Johanna Sophia Herre and William Gustav, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau met is unknown; however, the two were distantly related: they shared a common great-grandmother, Eleonora Blandina Schulze (1621�1696), who was married successively to the pharmacists Dominicus Starke (Johanna Sophia Herre's great-grandfather) and Christoph F�hse (William Gustav's great-grandfather) The mother of the Hereditary Prince was a Dessau pharmacist's daughter, Anna Louise F�hse, firstly morganatic wife of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and later ennobled as Imperial Princess (German: Reichsf�rstin). Although Dessau was the main residence of the princely family, only a few thousand people lived there at the beginning of the 18th century. In this small town, their parents' homes were only 300 meters apart.William Gustav and Johanna Sophia Herre were married on 14 March 1726 The secret wedding took place at night in Dessau with only the couple, the Pastor Hoffmeister from Raguhn (who performed the ceremony) and Johanna Sophia Herre's grandmother, Anna Elisabeth Starke, were present. The young couple kept the wedding secret. Nevertheless, Johanna Sophia Herre moved into an apartment in Hornburg, near the place of employment of her husband, who served as an officer in the Prussian army. In the summer of 1727, shortly after the birth of their first child, William, the small family moved to Gut Kleckewitz, where Johanna Sophia Herre spent the next two decades in virtual seclusion.The Hereditary Prince, to whom Gut Kleckewitz had been given to use by his father, visited her regularly, but continued to live in the court of Dessau or its garrison. Johanna Sophia Herre and her children had no official contact with the Dessau court or the princely family during these years. In the course of eleven years of marriage, they had nine children The constantly growing family made their living from the private fortune of William Gustav and the income from Gut Kleckewitz as well as his position as a Prussian officer. All nine children from this marriage were identified in the baptismal registers as legitimate children of the Hereditary Prince and his wife. Although William Gustav had already committed himself to his wife and children in a will in 1734 and appointed the latter as his heirs, this will was also kept secret. Despite his apparent happy married life, the Hereditary Prince sired two sons in 1732 and 1734 from his relationship with Henriette Marianne Schardius, daughter of the Superintendent of Dessau.In December 1737 William Gustav became infected with smallpox. Despite the risk of infection, Johanna Sophia Herre (at that time heavily pregnant) visited her husband secretly at his sick bedIn the face of his fatal illness, he revealed his secret marriage and paternity to his brother Maurice. Two days later, on 16 December 1737, the Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau died. His wife and children spent the day at Gut Kleckewitz. William Gustav was buried on 16 January 1738 as the officially unmarried Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau; neither his secret widow nor children attended the ceremony.When the will of 1734 was opened, Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau undertook to take care of his eldest son's family. All children were excluded from the Anhalt-Dessau succession. Under the condition that they would continue to live inconspicuously at Gut Kleckewitz, he fixed maintenance for all children up to their 16th birthday, an annual pension for his widowed daughter-in-law and dowries for his three granddaughters. His grandsons were obliged to enter the military. Prince Maurice was appointed guardian of the children; Johanna Sophia's own affairs were to be handled by her brother Christian Herre, Prussian quartermaster.The Dessau court allowed that the widow signed her documents as "Johanna Sophia, widow of the Hereditary Prince William Gustav of Anhalt" (German: Johanne Sophie des Erbprinzen Wilhelm Gustav von Anhalt Witwe) and carried the princely Anhalt coat of arms. The naming of the sons as �Lords of Anhalt� and the daughters as �Dames� also testifies to a partial recognition of their social standing.Johanna Sophia Herre continue to lived in seclusion at Gut Kleckewitz until the Prince Leopold I's death on 9 April 1747. Her three older sons joined the Prussian army, the younger children were raised together by her and the appointed guardian, Prince Maurice. This situation changed when the new Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Leopold II Maximilian, began the procedures to the ennoblement of the family of his deceased older brother from 1748. After clarifying the financial questions (Prince Leopold II and his siblings shared the cost of 22,000 Reichsthalers) the formal application was made to the Reichshofrat (Imperial Council) in Vienna. On 19 September 1749, Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor gave his consent and Johanna Sophia Herre and her nine children became the Imperial Counts and Countesses of Anhalt (German: Reichsgrafen und -gr�finnen von Anhalt). Associated with this was the right to use their own coat of arms, but the exclusion of the children from the Anhalt succession was confirmed.


Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg (3 June 1647 � 4 November 1687), was a German noblewoman member of the House of Runkel (through female line surnamed Leiningen-Westerburg) and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels. Born in Schaumburg an der Lahn, she was the third of nineteen children born from the marriage of Georg Wilhelm, Count of Leiningen-Westerburg in Schaumburg and Countess Sophia Elisabeth of Lippe-Detmold. In Halle on 29 January 1672, Johanna Walpurgis married Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels as his second wife. They had three children


Johanna of Hachberg-Sausenberg (1485 � 23 September 1543), was a noble feudal lord, countess regnant of Neuch�tel in 1503�1512 and again from 1529 to 1543. She was the daughter of Philip of Hochberg and Maria of Savoy. Johanna inherited the rule of Neuch�tel from her father in 1503. In 1504 she married Louis I d'Orl�ans, duc de Longueville. As was the custom with female rulers at the time, her husband became her co-ruler. In 1512, Neuch�tel fell under the occupation of the Old Swiss Confederation, as the result of the Pro-French policy of her spouse and co-regent, which was regarded as a security threat to Switzerland. Johanna was actively involved in negotiations with the Swiss cantons to discontinue the occupation and regain access to her county, and when she was widowed in 1516 her position in the negotiations improved. The occupation of Neuch�tel was discontinued in 1529, and she was able to resume her reign. They had 4 children.


Johanna Maria Louise Loisinger (18 April 1865 � 20 July 1951) was an Austrian actress, pianist and operatic soprano singer. She was born in Pre�burg, Austria (today Bratislava), the daughter of John Loisinger and Maria Meier.After she had completed her singing studies, Loisinger sang in Prague, Troppau (today Opava), Linz and at the court theatre in Darmstadt. She was a well-known singer of the works of Mozart.Loisinger married Prince Alexander of Battenberg (1857�1893) on 6 February 1889 in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France. The prince had resigned from the Bulgarian throne in 1886 and had assumed the style of Count von Hartenau, so Loisinger became the Countess von Hartenau. The couple settled in Graz, Austria, and had two children, Assen Ludwig Alexander (1890�1965) and Marie Therese Vera Zvetana (1893�1935). After her husband's early death, she moved to Vienna, where she was an active patron of musical organisations. Among other posts, she was president of the Vienna Symphony.Loisinger died on 20 July 1951 in Vienna. She was buried in St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz where her daughter Zvetana was previously buried.


Johanna Sophia ( 9 July 1731 � 15 July 1786), Abbess of Mosigkau. Daughter of Johanna Sophia Herre and William Gustav, Hereditary Prince of Dessau


Johanna Nepumukena, Baroness von Enzberg, wife of Carl Theodor Baron von Spiering


Countess Johanna von Holnstein aus Bayern  (1833�1833), who died at birth Daughter of Caroline  von Spiering (8 May 1815 � 24 July 1859) and Count Carl Theodor von Holnstein aus Bayern (1797�1857)


Johanna Sibylla of Hanau-Lichtenberg (6 July 1564 � 24 March 1636) was the first child of Philipp V, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg from his first marriage with Countess Ludowika Margaretha of Zweibr�cken-Bitsch (1540-1569).On 1 February 1582, Johanna Sibylla married Count Wilhelm IV of Wied-Runkel and Isenburg (1581 � 13 September 1612), the son of Count Johann IV of Wied-Runkel and Isenburg (d. 15 June 1581) and Katharina of Hanau, Countess of Wied (1525-1581). William succeeded his father in 1581 as Count of Upper Wied (Runkel and Dierdorf) and in the rest of Wied in 1595. They had 6 children.



Joan of England (19 December 1333 or 28 January 1334 � 1 July 1348)was a daughter of Edward III and his wife, Philippa of Hainault. Joan, also known as Joanna, was born in the Tower of London. As a child she was placed in the care of Marie de St Pol, wife of Aymer de Valence and foundress of Pembroke College, Cambridge. She grew up with her sister Isabella, her brother Edward, and their cousin Joan of Kent, and she died in the Black Death that struck Europe in 1348.


Joan Bates (n�e Collins)(2 September 1929 � 10 March 2016), also known as Princess Joan of Sealand, was the wife of Paddy Roy Bates, a British entrepreneur who founded the micronation known as the Principality of Sealand. Bates was born Joan Collins on 2 September 1929 at Aldershot Barracks, England, the daughter of RSM Albert Collins of the Royal Horse Artillery, and his wife, Elizabeth Joan met British Army major Paddy Roy Bates at the Kursaal dance hall in Southend-on-Sea. At the time he was recuperating from serious burns suffered during World War II. They married three months later in 1949 In the 1960s, Roy and Joan launched a pirate radio station and on Joan's birthday on 2 September 1967, they declared the Principality of Sealand independent, appointing themselves Prince Roy and Princess Joan, thus making Joan the "self-proclaimed ruler of the world's smallest kingdom". Bates died on 10 March 2016 at a Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, nursing home, following a long illness.



Joan de Noailles, Dowager Duchess of Mouchy (n�e Joan Douglas Dillon, later Princess Charles of Luxembourg)( 31 January 1935) is an American-born French duchess, the first commoner to marry into the reigning dynasty of Luxembourg, and is the former president of French Bordeaux wine company Domaine Clarence Dillon. Joan Dillon is the daughter of U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon and his wife, Phyllis Chess Ellsworth. Dillon married firstly in Paris, France, on 1 August 1953 James Brady Moseley, nephew of U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady. The couple divorced in Washoe County, Nevada, US, on 12 December 1955; the marriage was annulled in Rome, Italy, on 22 June 1963. They had a daughter, Joan Dillon Moseley (born 1954).Dillon married secondly on 1 March 1967 Prince Charles, brother of Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, at the Catholic Church of St. Edward the Confessor in Sutton Park, Surrey, UK. The marriage was the first authorized of a Luxembourgeois prince to a commoner � authorized by Grand Ducal decree issued 16 February 1967. She was styled "Her Royal Highness Princess Joan of Luxembourg". Prince Charles died in Imbarcati, Province of Pistoia, Italy, on 26 July 1977. They had two children. Dillon married thirdly in Islesboro, Maine, on 3 August 1978 Philippe, 8th Duke de Mouchy (1922�2011). The marriage was without issue


Joanna of Austria (in Castilian, Do�a Juana de Austria; in Portuguese, Dona Joana de �ustria, 24 June 1535 � 7 September 1573) was Princess of Portugal by marriage to Jo�o Manuel, Prince of Portugal. She served as regent of Spain to her brother Philip II of Spain during his trips to England to marry Mary I from 1554 to 1556, and 1556 to 1559. She was the mother of King Sebastian of Portugal.Married at 16 to her even younger husband, she was widowed after two years, giving birth in the same month. Later that year she returned to Spain at her father's request, leaving her son in the care of her mother in law, who was also her aunt. She never saw him again, but corresponded and had portraits sent. In later life she was active in religious affairs.

Joan Fitzgerald, Countess of Ormond, Countess of Desmond (Irish: Siobh�n Nic Gearailt) (died 1565), was an Irish noblewoman and heiress, a member of the Old English FitzGerald family, who were also known as the "Geraldines". Joan was probably born in 1514 in Munster, Ireland. She was the only daughter and heiress of James fitz Maurice FitzGerald by his wife Amy O'Brien. Her father was Earl of Desmond. He is here numbered the 10th, following the second edition of the Complete Peerage, but he is also numbered the 11th.She married three times. Her first husband was James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond, who had been proposed as a bridegroom for Anne Boleyn in 1522 to settle a dispute over the Ormond title and estates. Her second was Francis Bryan, a courtier and lord justice of Ireland. Her third was Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond. With her last marriage she brought a period of peace between the FitzGeralds of Desmond and the Butlers, who were hereditary enemies. After her death her widower resumed the old feud by attacking her son Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond.During her third marriage she carried on an amicable correspondence with Queen Elizabeth I of England, who recognised Lady Desmond's skill in diplomacy, and relied upon her to restore and keep the precarious peace in southern Ireland.Joan FitzGerald's first husband was James Butler. He was the eldest son of Piers Butler, who had been in a dispute with Thomas Boleyn, over the estate and title of Ormond after the 7th Earl had died without a son in 1515. Piers Butler had in 1522 proposed his son as bridegroom for Anne Boleyn to settle the dispute. James and Joan had seven sons After the dramatic fall of the Boleyns the earldom of Ormond reverted to her father-in-law in February 1538. On 26 August 1539 her husband succeeded as 9th Earl of Ormond and 2nd Earl of Ossory making her a double countess.On 17 October 1546 Ormond went to dine at Ely House in Holborn, London. He fell victim of a mass poisoning along with his steward and 16 of his servants In August 1548, she was persuaded to marry the English courtier and diplomat Francis Bryan. It is believed the marriage was a political maneuver to prevent Joan marrying her cousin, Gerald FitzGerald, heir to the Earldom of Desmond. Like her, Bryan had already been married once. His first wife had died childless in 1542. The union was not a happy one Bryan died suddenly on 2 February 1550, at Clonmel while travelling The precise date of her third marriage does not seem to be known. She did not wait long. Her third husband was her second cousin Gerald FitzGerald. The common ancestor was Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond, great-grandfather to both. Gerald was the heir apparent of James FitzGerald, the reigning Earl of Desmond, numbered the 13th. She was about 41 while he was about 17. In 1551 her son Thomas was given livery of the Ormond estateThe marriage brought about a temporary peace in Ireland between the rival families of Butler and FitzGerald


Joan Butler, who married Teige, 4th Baron Upper Ossory. A daughter of Sir Edmund Butler of Cloughgrenan  (1534�c. 1585) and  Eleanor Eustace


Joan Butler, married Sir Oliver Shortall, knight Daughter of John Butler of Kilcash (died 1570) and Katherine MacCarthy Reagh


Joan Butler, married (1) George Bagenal,(2) Theobald Purcell, and (3) Sir Thomas Esmond, 1st Baronet. Daughter of Sir Walter Butler, 11th Earl of Ormond and 4th Earl of Ossory (1559�1633) and  Helen Butler

Lady Joan Holland (ca. 1380�12 April 1434) was the third daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, and Lady Alice FitzAlan. She married four times. Her first husband was a duke, and the following three were barons. All of her marriages were most likely childless.Lady Joan Holland was born around 1380 in Upholland, Lancashire, England, as one of the ten children of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent and Lady Alice FitzAlan, sister of Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel. She was niece of Richard II of England, son of her paternal grandmother, Joan of Kent by her second marriage to Edward, the Black Prince. Joan had five sisters: Alianore became Countess of March ; Margaret became Countess of Somerset and later Duchess of Clarence; Eleanor became Countess of Salisbury; Elizabeth married Sir John Neville; and Bridget became a nun at Barking Abbey. Her eldest brother, Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, was beheaded in 1400 by a mob of angry citizens at Cirencester for his role in the Epiphany Rising, which was aimed against the life of King Henry IV of England, who had usurped the throne of King Richard. Thomas's heir to the earldom of Kent was her second eldest brother Edmund Holland. Lady Joan married Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, ca. 4 November 1393. As a result of this marriage, she was styled Duchess of York. They had no children.After Langley's death in 1402, Joan married (before 9 August 1404) William de Willoughby, 5th Lord Willoughby de Eresby (c. 1370�1409), a Knight of the Garter, son of Robert de Willoughby, 4th Lord Willoughby de Eresby, and Alice Skipwith. Upon her marriage, she became The Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, or Lady Willoughby. Lord Willoughby died on 30 November 1409.

Her third marriage (after 6 September 1410) was to Henry le Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham. That year, Scrope was made a Knight of the Garter. He served Henry IV as treasurer, and was executed in 1415 following the failure of his plot with the Earl of Cambridge (Joan's former stepson, being the son of her first husband, and nephew by marriage, being the husband of Anne de Mortimer, her sister's daughter) to assassinate Henry V and place Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March (Joan's nephew) on the throne.  Lord Scrope and Cambridge were both beheaded on 5 August 1415 at Southampton Green, Hampshire, England. Cambridge's then four-year-old son, Richard Plantagenet, ultimately championed his father's cause, which evolved into the Wars of the Roses and the Yorkist claimants achieving the throne.Less than a year later, before 27 April 1416, Joan married her fourth and final husband, Sir Henry Bromflete, son of Sir Thomas Bromflete and Margaret St. John.She died on 12 April 1434. Her husband, Bromflete, was summoned to Parliament as the 1st Lord Vesci (or Vessy) on 24 January 1449. He died on 16 January 1469.


Joan Ann Olivier, Dowager Baroness Olivier, DBE (n�e Plowright)(born 28 October 1929), professionally known as Dame Joan Plowright, is an English retired actress whose career has spanned over seven decades. She has won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award and has been nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy and two BAFTA Awards. She was the second of only four actresses (as of 2020) to have won two Golden Globes in the same year. She won the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a New Play in 1978 for Filumena. Plowright was born on 28 October 1929 in Brigg, Lincolnshire, the daughter of Daisy Margaret (n�e Burton) and William Ernest Plowright Plowright was first married to Roger Gage, an actor, in September 1953. She divorced him and, in 1961, married Laurence Olivier after the ending of his twenty-year marriage to the actress Vivien Leigh. The couple had three children, son Richard (born December 1961), daughter Tamsin Agnes Margaret (born January 1963) and daughter Julie-Kate (born July 1966). Both daughters became actresses. The couple remained married until Olivier's death in 1989.


Lady Joan Margaret Legge JP (1885�1939) was an English botanist who had a fatal accident while collecting samples in the Valley of Flowers in India. Legge was born on 21 February 1885 to William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth, and Lady Mary Coke. In 1939 Legge went to India to study flora in the Valley of Flowers on behalf of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.While traversing some rocky slopes to collect flowers, she slipped off and lost her life.[4] She died unmarried at the age of 54


Lady Joan Isabella (21 September 1915 � 1989), daughter of  Doreen Maud Milner (1886�1965) and Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow


Joan FitzAlan, Countess of Hereford, Countess of Essex and Countess of Northampton (1347 � 7 April 1419) was the wife of the 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex and 2nd Earl of Northampton. She was the mother of Mary de Bohun, the first wife of Henry of Bolingbroke who later reigned as King Henry IV, and Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester. She was the maternal grandmother of King Henry V.In 1400, she gave the order for the beheading of the Earl of Huntingdon in revenge for the part he had played in the execution of her brother, the 11th Earl of Arundel. Lady Joan FitzAlan was born in 1347 at Arundel Castle, Sussex, one of seven children, and the eldest daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster. Sometime after 9 September 1359, Joan married Humphrey de Bohun, one of the most powerful noblemen in the realm. His titles included 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton, and he was the hereditary Constable of England. He was the son of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton and Elizabeth de Badlesmere. Their marriage united two of the most prominent noble families in the kingdom; an alliance which was further strengthened by her elder brother Richard's marriage to Humphrey's sister, Elizabeth.Together Humphrey and Joan produced two daughters, who upon the death of their father divided his vast estates between them


Joan (1384 � 16 August 1400) married Gilbert Talbot, 5th Baron Talbot (1383�1419). Died in childbirth. Daughter of Eleanor de Bohun (c. 1366 � 3 October 1399) and Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester


Joan, Lady John Campbell (born Joan Glassel)( 9 June 1796 � 22 January 1828) was a Scottish heiress, and second wife of John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll. Joan was born in Gladsmuir, East Lothian, Scotland, the only daughter of John Glassell who had emigrated Colonies with his brother, Andrew. However, John Glasell did not care for the Colonies and returned to Scotland and married Helen Buchanan; some accounts say that she was born in Longniddry after his return. Glassel was a member of a Lowland Scots family, and his wife, Helen n�e Buchan, was also Scottish Joan married the future duke in 1820, when he was known as Lord John Campbell. He had previously been divorced from his first wife Elizabeth, whom he had married against the wishes of his father in 1802. Lord and Lady Campbell had three children After Joan's death in 1828, Argyll married a third time, to Anne Monteith, a widow and the eldest daughter of John Cuninghame; she had been a friend of his second wifeHe inherited his father's dukedom in 1839, thus his second wife was never Duchess of Argyll.


Lady Joan Rufus Isaacs, daughter of Gerald Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading She married Solomon "Solly" Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman OM KCB FRS (30 May 1904 � 1 April 1993) They had 2 children

Benedict is a masculine given name of Latin origin, meaning "blessed". Etymologically, it is derived from the Latin words bene ('good') and dicte ('speak'), i.e. "well spoken". The name was borne by Saint Benedict of Nursia (480�547), often called the founder of Western Christian monasticism.


Prince Benedikt Ferdinand Hubertus Maria of Liechtenstein, Count of Rietberg (18 May 2008 ), son of Countess Marie Gabriele Franziska K�lnoky de Kőr�spatak and Prince Constantin of Liechtenstein.


Benedikt Fraye (b. 2013) Son of Alix de la Poeze (b. 8 September 1981) and Francois-Xavier Fraye (b. 7 March 1979) In maternal line a grandson of Anna (Anita) Charlotte Maximiliana Euphemia Maria Helena of Hohenberg (b. 18 August 1958) and a great-grandson of Princess Elisabeth of Luxembourg and Franz, Duke of Hohenberg (1927�1977)


Count Benedikt of Habsburg (b. 1983), son of Archduke Carl Salvator, Prince of Tuscany (b. 1936) and Edith Wenzl Frn von Sternbach He married Daniela Sondermann (*1978) They have a son.


Benedikt Harmsen (*2017), son of Maximilian Harmsen (*1982) and Countess Marianna von und zu Westerholt und Gysenberg (*1982). A paternal grandson of Duchess Irene of Mecklenburg (*1952) and Constantin Harmsen (*1954)


Archduke Benedikt-Alexander of Austria (*2005), son of Archduke Andreas of Austria (*1963) and Countess Marie-Christine von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg-Dцnhoff (*1968)


Count Benedikt Piatti (*1966), husband of .Archduchess Margherita of Austria (*1972). They have 4 children


Prince Benedikt of Windisch-Graetz (*1998), son of Prince Ernst Albrecht of Windisch-Graetz (*1962) and Michaela Pьck (*1967)


Benedikt Roland (*1991), son of  Martin Roland (*1964),and Barbara Egger (*1965). A paternal grandson of Archduchess Maria Ludovika of Austria (1931-1999)


 Count Benedikt von Ledebur-Wicheln (*1964), former husband of Countess Sophie von Waldstein (*1971) They had 2 children


Count Benedikt of Stolberg-Stolberg (*1997), son of Count Markus of Stolberg-Stolberg (*1953) and his 1st wife Margit Schalit (*1974)


.Count Philipp-Benedikt von und zu Hoensbroech (*2002), son of Count Florian von und zu Hoensbroech (*1969),and Princess Desirйe of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (*1974)

Count Benedikt of Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems (*1992), son of Count Vitus Franziskus of Waldburg-Zeil-Hohenems (*1961) and  Countess Marie-Thйrиse Nemes de Hidvйg et Oltszem (1965-2018) He married Countess Elisabeth of Rechberg and Rothenlцwen of Hohenrechberg (*1989) They have 2 children.


Baron Benedikt von und zu Bodman (*2007), son of Countess Caroline von Ledebur-Wicheln (*1972) and Baron Johannes von und zu Bodman (*1969)


Benedikt Fraye (*2013), son of Alix de La Poлze d'Harambure (*1981) and Francois-Xavier Fraye (*1979). Maternal grandson of Princess Anita von Hohenberg (*1958) and her 1st husband Count Romйe de La Poлze d'Harambure (*1949)


Count Benedikt of Neipperg (*1980), son of Archduchess Andrea of Austria (*1953) and Karl Eugen, Count of Neipperg (*1951). A maternal grandson of Otto, Crown Prince of Austria (1912-2011) and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen (1925-2010). he married Countess Charlotte von Bernstorff (*1988)

Christian VI (30 November 1699 � 6 August 1746) was King of Denmark and Norway from 1730 to 1746. The eldest surviving son of Frederick IV and Louise of Mecklenburg-G�strow, he is considered one of Denmark-Norway's more anonymous kings, but he was a skilled politician, best known for his authoritarian regime. He was the first king of the Oldenburg dynasty to refrain from entering in any war. During his reign both compulsory confirmation (1736) and a public, nationwide school system (1739) were introduced. His chosen motto was "Deo et populo" (for God and the people) Christian was born on 30 November 1699 at Copenhagen Castle as the second but eldest surviving son of King Frederick IV of Denmark by his first consort, Louise of Mecklenburg-G�strow. His grandfather King Christian V had died just three months, before he was born, and he was thus crown prince from birth. From 1706, Christian came to understand Danish but used German for everyday speaking and writing. He got a better education and acquired more knowledge than his father and grandfather. As Crown Prince he was allowed by his father to find a wife by himself. During a trip through Europe accompanied by Chancellor Ulrik Adolf Holstein, the Crown Prince decided on Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, one of the ladies-in-waiting at the court of the Saxon-Polish queen Christiane Eberhardine in the Castle Pretzsch. Sophia Magdalene came from a minor margraviate (not greater than Lolland-Falster) of the Hohenzollern dynasty where able consciousness was inversely proportional to the funds; half of the land was mortgaged, and her father died young. She had 13 siblings and was considered an unequal match for the Danish prince, but the king gave his permission. In Christian's letters, he describes his feelings for the princess's intense religiosity, which reminded him of his own. They were married on 7 August 1721, while Christian was crown prince. The wedding was held at Pretzsch in Saxony At the death of Frederick IV on 12 October 1730, the couple became King and Queen of Denmark-Norway. They were crowned on 6 June 1731 in the Chapel of Frederiksborg Palace They had 2 children



Christian VII (29 January 1749 � 13 March 1808) was a monarch of the House of Oldenburg who was King of Denmark�Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1766 until his death in 1808. For his motto he chose: "Gloria ex amore patriae" ("Glory through love of the fatherland"). Christian was the son of King Frederick V and his first wife Louise of Great Britain. He was born in the Queen's Bedchamber at Christiansborg Palace, the royal residence in Copenhagen. He was baptized a few hours later the same day. His godparents were King Frederick V (his father), Queen Dowager Sophie Magdalene (his paternal grandmother), Princess Louise (his aunt) and Princess Charlotte Amalie (his grand-aunt).The young king married his first cousin, the just 15-year-old Princess Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, in a dynastic marriage. They had been betrothed already in 1765. Her brother, King George III of Great Britain, was anxious about the marriage but not aware that the bridegroom was mentally ill. They were married in a proxy wedding ceremony on 1 October 1766 in the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace in London, with the Princess's brother, Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, acting as the representative of the groom. After her arrival in Copenhagen, another wedding ceremony took place on 8 November 1766 in the royal chapel at Christiansborg Palace. Marriage celebrations and balls lasted for another month. On 1 May 1767, Christian VII and Caroline Matilda were crowned King and Queen of Denmark and Norway in the royal chapel of Christiansborg Palace. After his marriage, he abandoned himself to the worst excesses, especially sexual promiscuity. In 1767, he entered into a relationship with the courtesan St�vlet-Cathrine. He ultimately sank into a condition of mental stupor. Symptoms during this time included paranoia, self-mutilation, and hallucinations.From 1770 to 1772, Struensee was de facto regent of the country, and introduced progressive reforms signed into law by Christian VII. Struensee was deposed by a coup in 1772 after which the country was ruled by Christian's stepmother, Juliane Marie of Brunswick-Wolfenb�ttel, his half-brother Frederick, and the Danish politician Ove H�egh-Guldberg. The king divorced Caroline Matilda in 1772 after they had produced two children: the future King Frederick VI and Princess Louise Auguste. Struensee, who had enacted many modernising and emancipating reforms, was arrested and executed the same year. Christian signed Struensee's arrest and execution warrant under pressure from his stepmother, Queen Juliana Maria, who had led the movement to have the marriage ended. Caroline Matilda, retaining her title but not her children, eventually left Denmark and passed her remaining days in exile at Celle Castle in her brother's German territory, the Electorate of Hanover. She died there of scarlet fever on 10 May 1775 at the age of 23

�Christian� was historically also a female name in Australia. There�s a Christian (f) buried in my local graveyard.

I remember I have heard something similar before.
In Dutch I have noticed another female variant Christiane