Chapter Mardonius to Margiana of M by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Margherita di Valois, daughter of Catherine de Medicis and Henri II. of France. She married Henri le Bearnais (afterwards Henri IV. of France). It was during the wedding solemnities of Margherita and Henri that Catherine de Medicis carried out the massacre of the French huguenots. The bride was at a ball during this horrible slaughter.—Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots or Gli Ugonotti (1836).

Marguerite des Marguerites (“The Pearl of Pearls”) was not Marguerite di Valois wife of Henri IV., but Marguerite the wife of Henri d’Albert, mother of Henri IV.

Margiana (Queen), a mussulman, the mortal enemy of the fire-worshippers. Prince Assad became her slave, but, being stolen by the crew of Behram, was carried off. The queen gave chase to the ship; Assad was thrown overboard, and swam to shore. The queen with an army demanded back her slave, discovered that Assad was a prince, and that his half-brother was king of the city to which she had come; whereupon she married him, and carried him home to her own dominions.—Arabian Nights (“Amgiad and Assad”).