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Born in 1350 in the castle of present-day Old Trakai (Senieji Trakai), Vytautas was the son of Kęstutis and his wife Birutė. Vytautas was a cousin and childhood friend of Jogaila (Władysław II Jagiełło), who became King of Poland in 1386.
Anna, Grand Duchess of Lithuania. Anna (Lithuanian: Ona Vytautienė; died on 31 July 1418 in Trakai [1]) was Grand Duchess of Lithuania (1392–1418). She probably was the first wife of Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania. Anna was mother of Sophia of Lithuania, the wife of Vasily I of Moscow. [1]
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Apollonia Vitelli was 16 and Michael Corleone's first wife.
Apollonia Vitelli was born in the hills around Corleone, Sicily. Apollonia was the only daughter of a Greek mother and a Sicilian father, who were incredibly protective of her and never wanted her heritage to be confused. She was the third child, having two older brothers. Apollonia grew very beautifully.
"She was wonderful, beautiful. I loved her. And then she died. My trusted bodyguard planted a bomb in my car. She drove it before I did."
―Michael Corleone
However, after her death, he quickly moved on and married Kay, whom Michael was very in love with. Along with the murder of his brother Santino, and the attempted assassination of his father Vito, Appolonia’s death was the final tipping point that caused Michael’s transformation into the ruthless and revenge driven crime lord he became. He was particularly reminded of her by the Sicilian ballad "Brucia La Terra", which his son Anthony performed for him upon his return to Sicily in 1980.
In 1997, 49 years after her death, Michael died in the courtyard of Don Tommasino's villa, the same courtyard where her life was taken.
•In The Godfather novel, Apollonia was pregnant at the time of the explosion. This detail is not specified in the film, though it may have been true.
•In a deleted scene of The Godfather Part II (later restored in The Godfather Saga), Michael avenges Apollonia's death by killing Fabrizio with a bomb placed in his car at his pizzeria in Buffalo. In the novel, Michael loses contact with Fabrizio, taking a long time to find him again, where it is learned he has opened a pizzeria in Buffalo, NY. However, Fabrizio's endgame is slightly different. He is at work when a man walks in appearing to be a potential customer. The man, actually a member of the Corleone crime family, produces a lupara (a Sicilian short-barrelled shotgun, designed to hunt wolves, but known to be mainly used by mafiosi for executions) and says "Michael Corleone sends his regards" and opens fire. Fabrizio is hit in the chest, whereupon he bleeds to death almost immediately. The hitman identifies Fabrizio by the elaborate tattoo on his chest.
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Vytautas married Ona, the daughter of Sudimantas, a Lithuanian noble, in about 1370. Vytautas and Ona had a daughter named Sofia, who married Grand Prince Vasily of Moscow in January 1390. After Ona's death, Vytautas married her niece Julija.
Antipas had known Philip’s wife Herodias since he was a child. She was the daughter of one of his older brothers Aristobulus and they were only 5 years apart in age.
In an effort to consolidate his position and widen his power, Jogaila married the 12-year-old Polish queen Jadwiga and was crowned king of Poland in Kraków on Feb. 15, 1386, as Władysław II Jagiełło. Vytautas then waged an intermittent struggle for power with Jogaila and on occasion sought further assistance from the Teutonic Order.
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Washington is consistently ranked in the upper half of first ladies by historians. Martha Dandridge married Daniel Parke Custis on May 15, 1750, and the couple had four children, only one of whom survived to adulthood. [1] She was widowed in 1757 at the age of 26, inheriting a large estate.
