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53 matches to Mother Goose
Leda. Spartan Queen. Mother of Helen, Castor, Pollux.
Leto. Mother of Apollo and Artemis.
Livia Drusilla. 58BC-29 AD. Influential wife of Augustus. Mother of Tiberius.
Louise of Savoy. 1476-1531. Mother of Francis I. Negotiated Treaty of Cambrai.
Maia. Greek Pleiade. Mother of Hermes by Zeus.
Marie de Medici. 1573-1642. Queen consort to Henry IV, mother of Louis XIII. Regent 1610-14. Built Luxembourg Palace. Opposed Richelieu. Banished 1630. Died penniless.
Mary. Virgin mother of Jesus. Free from Original Sin. Most important Roman Catholic saint.
Mary Stuart. 1542-87. Queen of Scots 1542-67. Abdicated. Married Francis II. Queen of France 1559-60. Married Darnley 1565. Married Bothwell 1567, causing Scottish Revolt. Beheaded with Babington by Elizabeth I. Mother of James I.
Mnemosyne. Greek goddess of memory. Muses’ mother by Zeus.
Moore, Henry. 1898-1986. English semi-abstract organic sculptor. Mother and Child 1924. Reclining Figure 1951.
Motherwell, Robert. 1915-91. US Abstract Expressionist painter. Created New York school. Elegy to the Spanish Republic 1949-59.
Nero. 37-68. Cruel, licentious Roman Emperor 54-. Persecuted Christians. Killed mother, wife. Blamed for fire, 63. Golden House.
Nufer, Jacob. c1500. First successful Caesarian section on living mother.
Oedipus. Solved the riddle of the sphynx. Killed his father and married his mother.
Olympias. c175-316BC. Wife of Philip of Macedonia. Mother of Alexander the Great.
Orestes. Electra’s brother. Killed mother and her lover to avenge death of his father, Agamemnon.
Paix des Dames. Cambrai Treaty. 1529. Francis I’s mother and Charles V’s aunt negotiate halt to Italian Wars.
Parks, Rosa. 1913-. US ‘mother’ of Civil Rights Movement. Arrested, 1955, for not relinquishing her seat to a white man. King.
Pasiphaë. Greek wife of Minos, mother of Ariadne and Minotaur.
Rebecca. Biblical wife of Isaac, mother of Jacob.
Rhea. Greek fertility goddess. Mother of most gods.
Royaume, Mother. Saved Geneva 1602 by pouring hot stew (and pot) on heads of Savoy soldiers.
Sarah. Old Testament figure. Abraham’s wife. Isaac’s mother.
Semele. Dionysus’ mother. Killed, then immortalized.
Shipton, Mother. 1488-1561. Predicted 1666 Great Fire of London.