What is "cleves"

Usage examples of "cleves".

He fell in love with a picture, and because, in his proud self-conceit, he was convinced that the fine picture which Holbein had made of him, was not at all flattered, but entirely true to nature, it did not occur to him that Holbein's likeness of the Princess Anne of Cleves might be somewhat flattered, and not altogether faithful.

For had Anne of Cleves, the sister, niece, granddaughter and aunt of all the Protestant princes of Germany, been beautiful, incalculable danger would have threatened our church.

Anne of Cleves, therefore, was virtually already married, and Henry, with his tender conscience, could not make one already married his wife.

Thus did he with Cromwell, for many years his counsellor and friend, who had committed no other crime than that of having first exhibited to the king the portrait of the ugly Anne of Cleves, whom Holbein had turned into a beauty.

The king did not see you, and since the unlucky affair with Anne of Cleves he mistrusts likenesses.

If he immediately arranges a divorce from Anne of Cleves, the king might be so wrapped up in his new marriage, that Cromwell might slip away unharmed.

Raised in the strict and penurious court of her brother of Cleves, Anne had blossomed—at least in matters of dress and enjoyment of luxury—at the lavish court of Henry VIII.

After Queen Jane died in 1537 after bearing the King his longed-for son and heir, Edward, Mary was first lady in the land until the arrival of Henry's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, who was not to his taste and whose marriage was annulled after six months, having remained unconsummated.

Her father the King could not, for a time, bring himself to see her, but the intercession of three stepmothers - Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard - made him relent, with the result that Elizabeth received the occasional summons to come to court, albeit rarely.

He had never known his own mother, and his first two stepmothers, Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard, had little to do with him.

His Uncle Thomas should marry either Anne of Cleves or 'my sister Mary, to change her opinions'.

The man accompanying him was originally from Cleves, and Nurse DeVries spoke Dutch.

In the procession to the Abbey she rode behind the Queen with Anne of Cleves, followed by Lady Katherine Grey, who wore red velvet.

Elizabeth sat with the Queen and Anne of Cleves at the high table, but Renard (whom the princess had pointedly ignored all day) later observed her deep in conversation with the French ambassador.

There were Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr.