Sentence examples for double marriage from inspiring English sources

In 1515 Maximilian arranged a double marriage between his family and the Jagiellon line that ruled Bohemia and Hungary, thus reviving earlier Habsburg claims to these countries.

The twins' double courtship of, double marriage to and complex sleeping arrangements with the sisters Sarah and Adelaide Yates make memorable scenes that somehow never strain credulity.

One of the earliest and best English poems to mark the union of others is Edmund Spenser's Prothalamion, which was written as a "Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Ladie Elizabeth and Ladie Katherine Somerset".

To defuse tension with the Burgundians a second double marriage was arranged in 1409.

Two women recently became engaged in an adorable, surprise double marriage proposal after a romantic weekend in New York City.

His family also conducted a double marriage alliance with Boru, although he later realigned himself with the main leaders of the Leinster revolt of 1012 1014.

But the movie concludes with a happy ending in the form of a double-marriage for Nicholas and Kate; here I suspect McGrath shows how entranced he has been by the ending of Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility.

In fact, things are so lenient that, In North Carolina, it's completely legal for first cousins to get married ("Double Cousin" marriage, however, isn't okay... Whatever that is).

The daughter of a billionaire property tycoon who doubled a marriage bounty on her head has published an open letter asking her father to accept her for who she is.

Williams Institute officials also pointed to state administrative data from Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont, which showed that the number of same-sex couples who married nearly doubled in marriage equality states from 2012 to 2013.

He hoped to arrange an "exchange wedding," a double green-card marriage between two pairs of siblings from two families, for himself and his sister.