Knee Bareniece Maxwelton
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Jump to navigationJump to search- née (French) formerly, born, indicating a woman's surname before marriage
- Berenice a name common in both the Herod family and the Ptolemaic dynasty. The most famous one is the subject of the tragedy Bérénice by Jean Racine (1670). She is the queen of Palestine, the sister of Herod Agrippa II, who is rejected by the Roman Emperor Titus, in spite of his love for her.
- Berenice the title of a Gothic horror tale by Edgar Allen Poe (1835), in which the hero is obsessed with his dead fiancée's teeth.
- Baroness
- bare knees
- bare niece would fit with the Herod family in which many incestuous marriages occurred. Emperor Claudius also married his niece.
- Bernicia: 6th-7th century Anglo-Saxon kingdom (modern-day northeastern England and southeastern Scotland)
- Maxwelltown formerly a burgh in the Scottish county of Kirkcudbrightshire, now merged with Dumfries
- Maxwelton: Location mentioned in the Scottish ballad Annie Laurie, which begins: Maxwelton braes are bonnie. → annie lawrie promises
