Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Maria Theresa of Austria, Empress Matilda, Theophanu, Adelaide of Italy, Agnes of Poitou, List of Holy Roman Empresses, Maria Luisa of Spain, Anna Von Schweidnitz, Margarita Teresa of Spain, Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Constance of Sicily, Margaret Ii, Countess of Hainault, Eleonor Magdalene of the Palatinate-Neuburg, Isabella of Portugal, Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Isabella Ii of Jerusalem, Isabella of England, Bianca Maria Sforza, Barbara of Cilli, Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress, Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress, Maria Josepha of Bavaria, Maria Anna of Spain, Eleanor Gonzaga, Eleonor Gonzaga, Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Cunigunde of Luxembourg, Anna of Tyrol, Elizabeth of Pomerania, Maria Amalia of Austria, Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy, Richardis, Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Eupraxia of Kiev, Judith of Bavaria, Engelberga, Ermengarde of Tours, Richenza of Northeim, Ermengarde of Hesbaye, Ageltrude. Excerpt: Saint Adelaide Saint Adelaide of Italy , also called Adelaide of Burgundy (931/932 16 December 999) was Holy Roman Empress and perhaps the most prominent European woman of the 10th century. Life She was the daughter of Rudolf II of Burgundy and Bertha of Swabia . Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II , the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence , the father of Lothair. They had a daughter, Emma of Italy . Marriage to Otto I Adelaide and her second husband Otto I the Great The Calendar of Saints states that her first husband was poisoned by the holder of real power, his successor, Berengar of Ivrea , who attempted to cement his...