Only a few years since the widowed Margravine, the aunt of the king, married the Count Hoditz.
"Berlin and Sans-Souci"
Louise Muhlbach
An old trader, too, who sold curiosities not far from the church, had told August a little more about the brave family of Hirschvogel, whose houses can be seen in Nuremberg to this day; of old Veit, the first of them, who painted the Gothic windows of St. Sebald with the marriage of the Margravine; of his sons and of his grand-sons, potters, painters, engravers all, and chief of them great Augustin, the Luca della Robbia of the North.
"Bimbi"
Louise de la Ramee
The Margravine, a fine vigorous lady with a lively mouth and livelier eyes of a restless grey that rarely dwelt on you when she spoke, and constantly started off on a new idea, did me the honour to examine me, much as if I had offered myself for service in her corps of grenadiers, and might do in time, but was decreed to be temporarily wanting in manly proportions.
"The Adventures of Harry Richmond, Complete"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009