Henrietta Maria of France along with her sisters, in riding, dancing, and singing, and took part in French court plays. Although tutored in reading and writing, she was not known for her academic skills; the princess was heavily influenced by the Carmelites at French court. By 1622, Henrietta Maria was living in Paris with a household of some 200 staff, and marriage plans were being discussed. Henrietta Maria first met her future husband in Paris, in 1623, while he was travelling to Spain with the Duke of Buckingham to discuss a possible marriage with the Infanta Maria Anna of Spain – Charles first saw
Maria, wife of Constantine V Maria, wife of Constantine V Maria (Greek: Μαρία; died 751) was the second Empress consort of Constantine V of the Roman Empire. Constantine was Emperor since 741 and his first wife, Tzitzak, gave him his only known son, Leo IV the Khazar, on 25 January 750. There is no further mention of her and, by the following year, Constantine was already married to Maria. Lynda Garland has suggested Tzitzak died in childbirth. Maria married Constantine between 750 and 751 and, according to the "Chronographikon syntomon" of Ecumenical Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople, her untimely death occurred at about the same