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Teresia Sampsonia (baptismal first name also written as Teresa; born as Sampsonia; full name after marrying Robert Shirley; Lady Shirley; 1589–1668) was a Safavid Iranian noblewoman and later the wife of noted Elizabethan English adventurer Robert Shirley, whom she accompanied in his many travels and embassies across Europe in the name of the ruling Safavid emperor, king Abbas the Great. Following the death of her husband and mainly due to further impediments brought upon her by the grandees at the court and eventually the authorities, she decided to leave her country of birth, namely Safavid Iran. Having endured many hardships during these years, she eventually settled in a convent in Rome for the rest of her life, where she devoted her later years to charity and religion. Due to the love for her husband and being a pious Christian, she had his remains transported to Rome from Isfahan and reburied there, in the same grave that she herself would later be buried in. Teresia was noted and received by many of the Royal houses of Europe, as well as famed contemporary writers and artists such as Thomas Herbert and Anthony van Dyck. ==Early life and marriage== Teresia was born in 1589 as Sampsonia into an Orthodox〔of either the Greek or Georgian schisms〕 Christian Circassian noble family in the Safavid Empire, ruled at that time by king (Shah) Abbas the Great. She was the daughter of Ismail Khan, a Circassian noble who was the brother of one of the Shah's wives, who was therefore Teresia's paternal aunt. She grew up in Isfahan at the Iranian Royal Court, and by all accounts she was of handsome presence, a fine horsewoman, and took pleasure in the feminine arts such as embroidery and painting. On the 2 February 1608, with the approval of her aunt and the connivance of Abbas himself, she married Sir Robert Shirley in Safavid Iran, an English adventurer who was sent to the Safavids after a Persian embassy several years earlier had been sent to Europe in order to create an alliance against the arch rivals of the Safavids (and also known by Abbas to be an enemy of several European empires), namely the neighbouring Ottoman Empire. In Robert Shirley's attendance at Court she had got to know and fall in love with him. Following their marriage, she acquired her husbands surname ''Shirley'' from this time and on and being baptized by the Carmelites around the same time as her marriage in February 1608, she adopted the name ''Teresia'' as well. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Teresia Sampsonia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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