Instances of widowed noblewomen marrying their spouse's fathers?

There have been instances (both planned and played out) in history of noblewomen marrying the fathers of their planned spouses instead of their actual planned spouses. Two examples I can think of are Manuel I of Portugal marrying Eleanor of Austria when she was initially planned to marry his son, John III, plunging John into a depression, and Philip II of Spain marrying Elisabeth of Valois when she was initially betrothed to his son, Infante Carlos.

However, just out of curiosity, has there ever been an actual hisorical case of a widowed noblewoman marrying the father of their deceased spouse? The only planned example I can think of is Henry VII Tudor planning to marry Catherine of Aragon himself after the deaths of both his son and Catherine's husband, Arthur, and Henry's wife, Elizabeth of York.

Any thoughts?
 
There have been instances (both planned and played out) in history of noblewomen marrying the fathers of their planned spouses instead of their actual planned spouses. Two examples I can think of are Manuel I of Portugal marrying Eleanor of Austria when she was initially planned to marry his son, John III, plunging John into a depression, and Philip II of Spain marrying Elisabeth of Valois when she was initially betrothed to his son, Infante Carlos.

However, just out of curiosity, has there ever been an actual hisorical case of a widowed noblewoman marrying the father of their deceased spouse? The only planned example I can think of is Henry VII Tudor planning to marry Catherine of Aragon himself after the deaths of both his son and Catherine's husband, Arthur, and Henry's wife, Elizabeth of York.

Any thoughts?
I can not think to any situation like that. Only to a couple of cases of girls marrying the father of their late fiancé (Anna of Austria to Philip II of Spain and Mariana of Austria after don Carlos’ death to Philip IV after the death of Balthasar Carlos)
 
There have been instances (both planned and played out) in history of noblewomen marrying the fathers of their planned spouses instead of their actual planned spouses. Two examples I can think of are Manuel I of Portugal marrying Eleanor of Austria when she was initially planned to marry his son, John III, plunging John into a depression, and Philip II of Spain marrying Elisabeth of Valois when she was initially betrothed to his son, Infante Carlos.

However, just out of curiosity, has there ever been an actual hisorical case of a widowed noblewoman marrying the father of their deceased spouse? The only planned example I can think of is Henry VII Tudor planning to marry Catherine of Aragon himself after the deaths of both his son and Catherine's husband, Arthur, and Henry's wife, Elizabeth of York.

Any thoughts?
Not in Europe,but there was a case in the Tang Dynasty where an emperor married his late father's widow,and then there was another case where another Tang emperor seized his daughter in law as his concubine even though said son was still alive and well.
 
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Kaze

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Needless to say, it was quite scandalous, but there is not a pope in China(the emperor is the closest thing to it) and that the two emperors were quite powerful.

And the woman were also very powerful in their own respects. The former became Empress (Huang Di), the later...was so beautiful that she nearly brought down the Tang.
 
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