He portrayed himself in 1493, just betrothed, holding sea holly (the betrothal flower) and with fashionable slashed sleeves; he painted himself, most famously, in 1500, gazing full-face at the viewer from a nimbus of long flowing hair (see the first illustration of this piece).
It is unlikely that your betrothed will scarper on horseback, as Julia Roberts did in "Runaway Bride", and most insurers wouldn't cover that anyway.
Survivors of self-burning often explain that they felt trapped in traditional, arranged marriages, which in some cases means they were betrothed at birth to cousins or tribal kinsmen.
When she finds that her Albrecht is a poseur, actually betrothed to a princess, she goes mad and dies.
Since the Spanish infanta Mariana, to whom Louis had been betrothed in 1721, was too young to produce a royal heir, Condé cancelled that engagement and married the King in September 1725 to the 21-year-old Maria Leszczyńska, daughter of a dethroned Polish king.
When the survivor entered Rome in triumph, his sister recognized among his trophies a cloak she had made for one of the Curiatii to whom she was betrothed.
Menshikov installed the young emperor in his own household and arranged for his daughter and Peter to become betrothed.
He attempted to strengthen his rulership through new court officials, and he twice contracted an important marriage alliance with members of the Salian dynasty, rulers of the Holy Roman Empire: he was betrothed to Conrad II's niece, who died before the marriage could be formalized, and married Henry III's daughter.
In 1721 Orléans betrothed Louis to the infanta Mariana, daughter of King Philip V of Spain.
During that period Amadeus' daughter Margherita was betrothed to Louis III of Anjou, pretender to the throne of Naples. Louis III died suddenly in 1434, and Amadeus briefly claimed Naples for Margherita but in the end abandoned the kingdom to Alfonso V of Aragon.
While still young he was betrothed to his cousin's daughter.
