Sansa Stark and Anne Neville

Game of Thrones: Young Sansa Stark is a prize bride as the heir to the North and has lost most of her family to war. She was betrothed to tyrannical Joffrey before being married to Tyrion and then to the monstrous Ramsay.

Historical parallel: Anne Neville, daughter and heir to the Earl of Warwick, was first married at the tender age of 14 to Henry VI’s son Edward of Lancaster. Months after the wedding, both her father and husband were killed in battle. She was then married by the future Richard III in 1472 in order to secure her wealth and land for House York.