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Sybilla
Sibylla or Sybilla may refer to: People with the name Pre-modern era * Sibylla of Acerra (1153–1205), queen consort of Sicily * Sibylla of Anhalt (1514–1614), Duchess of Württemberg * Sibylla of Anjou (died 1165), Countess of Flanders * Sibylla of Armenia (c. 1240–1290), Princess of Antioch * Sybilla of Burgundy (1060–1103), Duchess of Burgundy * Sibylla of Cyprus (1198–c. 1230 or 1252), queen consort of Armenia * Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem (c. 1160–1190), queen regnant of Jerusalem * Sybilla of Normandy (c. 1092–1122), queen consort of Scotland * Sybilla Corbet of Alcester (c. 1077–1157), English noblewoman and mistress of King Henry I of England Modern era * Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1908–1972), a member of the Swedish royal family * Sibilla Aleramo (1876–1960), Italian poet * Sibylla Budd (born c. 1977), Australian actress * Sibylla Bailey Crane (1851–1902), American educator, composer, author * Sibylla Flügge (born 1950), German lawye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybilla Mittell Weber
Sybilla Mittell Weber (1892–1957) was an American artist known for her etchings and drypoints of dogs and horses. She was trained by an Austrian animal painter at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and by an American etcher at the Art Students League of New York, Art Students League. With the skills they taught her, she embarked on a long and successful career during which she employed traditional techniques to achieve results that drew consistent critical praise. Admired for her skill in animal portraiture and for her ability to portray animals in action, she was said to use an "economy of line" to achieve a style situated between the extremes of pure realism and pure abstraction. Early life and education Weber was born and raised in New York City but spent summers in New Brunswick, Canada, in the countryside near Dumfries, New Brunswick, Dumfries where her father ran a summer camp for boys. There, she would hunt and fish with her father and help out in nearby farms. During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybilla Of Normandy
Sybilla of Normandy (c. 1092 – 12 or 13 July 1122) was Queen of Alba as the wife of King Alexander I. Sybilla was the first child of Henry I of England and his mistress, Lady Sybilla Corbet of Alcester (b. 1077 in Alcester, Warwickshire, d. after 1157). Her maternal grandfather was Robert Corbet of Alcester, part of the Corbet family. She was born circa 1092 in Domfront, Normandy. Around 1107, Sybilla married Alexander I, King of Scotland. The marriage was childless. The marriage ceremony may have occurred as early as 1107, or as at late as 1114. William of Malmesbury's account attacks Sybilla, but the evidence argues that Alexander and Sybilla were a devoted but childless couple and Sybilla was of noteworthy piety. Sybilla died in unrecorded circumstances at ''Eilean nam Ban'' ( Kenmore on Loch Tay) in July 1122 and was buried at Dunfermline Abbey. Alexander did not remarry and Walter Bower wrote that he planned an Augustinian Priory at the ''Eilean nam Ban'' dedicated t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybilla Corbet Of Alcester
Lady Sybilla Corbet of Alcester ( – 1157) was an English noblewoman and mistress of King Henry I of England. She was the mother of five of his children and was sometimes known as Lucy or Adela. Life Sybilla was born in Alcester, Warwickshire. She was a daughter and co-heiress of Robert Corbet, Lord of Alcester and his wife Adele of Alcester. She was a known mistress of King Henry I. She married Herbert FitzHerbert, Chamberlain of England and son of Herbert of Winchester and Emma of Blois, shortly after giving birth to her last child by the King. She died after 1157 and was survived by her husband, who died in 1165. Issue Sybilla is thought to be the mother of five of Henry I's illegitimate children: * Sybilla of Normandy (c. 1092 – 1122), married King Alexander I of Scotland Alexander I ( medieval Gaelic: ''Alaxandair mac Maíl Coluim''; modern Gaelic: ''Alasdair mac Mhaol Chaluim''; c. 1078 – 23 April 1124), posthumously nicknamed The Fierce, was the King of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibylla Of Anhalt
Sibylla of Anhalt (28 September 1564 – 26 October 1614) was a German princess from the House of Ascania who became Duchess of Württemberg as the wife of Duke Frederick I. Life Sibylla of Anhalt was born in Bernburg on 28 September 1564, as the fourth child of Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt (1536–1586) and his first wife, Agnes of Barby-Mühlingen (1540–1569), daughter of Wolfgang I, Count of Barby-Mühlingen. She had three older sisters and two younger brothers. Sybilla lost her mother when she was five years old, and her father remarried two years later. By her stepmother, Eleonore of Württemberg (1552–1618), she had ten half-siblings. In 1577, Sybilla's older sister Anna Maria was relieved from her post as Imperial abbess of Gernrode and Frose in order to marry Joachim Frederick of Brieg; under pressure from their father, the chapter elected the 13-year-old Sibylla as her successor. Sibylla was confirmed in her office by the emperor Rudolph II. During her reign a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibylla Flügge
Sibylla Flügge (born 1950, Clausthal-Zellerfeld) is a German lawyer and retired professor at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences in the field of “Law of the Woman". She was a member of the ''Frankfurt Women's Council''. Flügge is co-editor of the Streit – feminist legal magazine, feminist legal magazine ''STREIT''. Family Flügge's parents are the lawyer and women's rights activist Marianne Flügge-Oeri and the pastor Rufus Flügge. She has two children who were born in 1977 and 1981. The father of her children is Karl Dietrich Wolff. Career As a teenager, Flügge joined the left-wing student movement, took part in demonstrations and Easter March, Easter Marches and was head girl at the Sophienschule Hannover, where she graduated from high school in 1969. From 1969 to 1974 she studied Law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and then completed a three-year legal traineeship at the Regional Court Frankfurt am Main. During her studies, women' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybilla Of Burgundy
Sybilla of Burgundy (c. 1060–1103), was a French noble, Duchess consort of Burgundy by marriage to Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy. She was a daughter of William I, Count of Burgundy and Stephanie. She was married to Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy in 1080. Children: * Florine of Burgundy * Helie of Burgundy *Hugh II, Duke of Burgundy Hugh is the English-language variant of the masculine given name , itself the Old French variant of ''Hugo (name), Hugo'', a short form of Continental Germanic Germanic name, given names beginning in the element "mind, spirit" (Old English ). ...Hubert Houben, ''Roger II of Sicily: A Ruler Between East and West'' *Henry (died 1131) *Emma of Burgundy (1082–1120) *Alix of Burgundy (1102–1142) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Burgundy, Sibylla of, Duchess of Burgundy 1060s births 1103 deaths Sibylla Duchesses of Burgundy 12th-century French nobility Sibylla 12th-century French women Daughters of counts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibylla Of Anjou
Sibylla of Anjou (–1165) was a countess consort of Flanders as the wife of Count Thierry. She ruled the County of Flanders as regent during the absence of her spouse from 1147 to 1149. First marriage Sybilla was the daughter of Fulk V of Anjou and Ermengarde of Maine, In 1123, she married William Clito, nephew and rival of King Henry I of England. Sibylla brought the County of Maine to this marriage, which was annulled, narrowly, in 1124 on grounds of consanguinity. The annulment was made by Pope Calixtus II upon request from Henry; Fulk opposed it and did not consent until Calixtus excommunicated him and placed an interdict over Anjou. Countess consort of Flanders In 1134, Sibylla married Thierry, Count of Flanders. During his absence on the Second Crusade the pregnant Sibylla acted as regent of the county. Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut took the opportunity to attack Flanders, but Sibylla led a counter-attack and pillaged Hainaut. In response Baldwin ravaged Artois. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Sibylla Of Saxe-Coburg And Gotha
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Sibylle Calma Marie Alice Bathildis Feodora; 18 January 1908 – 28 November 1972) was a member of the Swedish royal family and the mother of the current king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf. Born into the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Sibylla was the daughter of Charles Edward, the last duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She became a Swedish princess when she married Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten in 1932. She thus had the prospect of one day becoming queen, but the prince was killed in an airplane crash in 1947 and did not live to ascend the Swedish throne. Her son became king the year after her death. Early life Sibylla was born on 18 January 1908 at Schloss Friedenstein in the city of Gotha, one of the two capitals in the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in central Germany. She was the elder daughter and second child of Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibella (other)
Sibella is a female given name. Notable persons with that name include: * Sibella Macarthur-Onslow (1871–1943), Australian charity worker * Sibella Cottle, mistress to Irish noble * Sibella Elizabeth Miles (1800–1882), English poet * Sibella Ross (1840–1929), New Zealand schoolteacher and businesswoman * Sibella Annie Barrington (1867–1929), Canadian nurse * Margaret Sibella Brown (1866–1961), Canadian bryologist Fictional characters * Sibella Dracula, the daughter of Dracula in the 1998 animated film '' Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School'' * Sibella Hallward, a character in the 1949 film ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' See also * '' Iolaus sibella'', a butterfly * Sibilla (other) * Sibylla (other) * Sibyl * Sibyl (other) * Sibylle (other) Sibylle is a given name. It may refer to: * Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1542–1580), eldest surviving daughter of Count Philipp IV and Countess Eleonore of Fürstenberg *Duchess Magdalene Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibylla Budd
Sibylla Budd (born 19 September 1976) is an Australian actress perhaps best known for her roles in the television series '' The Secret Life of Us'' and '' Winners & Losers''. Early life Budd grew up in Canberra, as one of four siblings. She has an older brother, Alex, and two younger brothers, Hamilton and Henry. She attended Canberra Girls' Grammar School where she became interesting in acting while performing in plays. After high school, Budd travelled overseas and worked in a pub in Cambridge, England, for six months. When she returned to Australia, she studied acting at the University of Western Sydney, before being accepted into the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 1997. She graduated with a Bachelor of Dramatic Art in 2000. Career In 2000 Budd appeared in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) soap opera '' Something in the Air'' playing Sharon. In 2001 she was the leading female in '' The Bank'' as Michelle Roberts, and played Sam Cooper in the TV miniserie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
168 Sibylla
168 Sibylla is a large main-belt asteroid, discovered by Canadian-American astronomer J. C. Watson on September 28, 1876. It was most likely named for the Sibyls, referring to the Ancient Greek female oracles. Based upon its spectrum this object is classified as a C-type asteroid, which indicates it is very dark and composed of primitive carbonaceous materials. 168 Sibylla is a Cybele asteroid, orbiting beyond most of the main-belt asteroids. Photometric observations of this asteroid made at the Torino Observatory in Italy during 1990–1991 were used to determine a synodic rotation period of 23.82 ± 0.004 hours. The shape of this slowly rotating object appears to resemble an oblate spheroid A spheroid, also known as an ellipsoid of revolution or rotational ellipsoid, is a quadric surface obtained by rotating an ellipse about one of its principal axes; in other words, an ellipsoid with two equal semi-diameters. A spheroid has circu .... References External links * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibylle (other)
Sibylle is a given name. It may refer to: * Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1542–1580), eldest surviving daughter of Count Philipp IV and Countess Eleonore of Fürstenberg *Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia (1586–1659), Electress of Saxony as the spouse of John George I, Elector of Saxony * Duchess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg (1675–1733), Margravine of Baden-Baden * Magdalene Sibylle of Holstein-Gottorp (1631–1719), Duchess of Hostein-Gottorp by birth and by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg-Güstrow *Magdalena Sibylle of Saxe-Weissenfels (1648–1681), German noblewoman * Magdalene Sibylle of Saxe-Weissenfels (1673–1726), German noblewoman * Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony (1617–1668), Princess of Denmark from 1634 to 1647 as the wife of Prince-Elect Christian of Denmark, and the Duchess consort of Saxe-Altenburg as the wife of Frederick Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg *Margravine Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1612–1687), Electress of Saxony from 1656 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
