People

1638–1683

Maria Theresa of Spain was the Spanish infanta who became queen consort of Louis XIV. Her marriage formed part of the Peace of the Pyrenees, and […]

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c. 1590s–1680

Maria Thins was a prosperous Catholic woman in Delft, the mother of Catharina Bolnes and mother-in-law of Johannes Vermeer. Her property and household supported Vermeer’s large […]

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1641–1716

Marie Casimire, known in Poland as Marysieńka, was a French-born noblewoman who became queen consort through her marriage to John III Sobieski. Their extensive correspondence records […]

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Marie de France was a twelfth-century poet who wrote in Anglo-Norman French and is best known for the Lais of Marie de France, a collection of […]

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1791–1847

Marie Louise was an Austrian archduchess who became Napoleon’s second wife and empress of the French in 1810. She gave birth to Napoleon II and, after […]

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1761–1850

Marie Tussaud was a French wax modeller who learned the craft from Philippe Curtius and created casts associated with the French Revolution. After moving to Britain […]

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1532–1605

Marino Grimani was doge of Venice from 1595 to 1605. His rule belongs to the ceremonial, diplomatic and factional world of the late Renaissance Venetian Republic. […]

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1512–1536

Mark Smeaton was a musician in the household of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. In 1536 he was arrested and became the only accused man to […]

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40–104

Martial was a Roman poet best known for short epigrams about life under the Flavian emperors. His poems observe patrons, clients, writers, performers, sexuality and the […]

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1535–1594

Martin Frobisher was an English seafarer, privateer and explorer of the Elizabethan period. His voyages in search of a Northwest Passage and his service against the […]

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