Brief lives of women who reigned or ruled in their own right or by marriage by providing their a) proprietary titles, b) parents/pedigree, c) patrimony and properties, d) persona or personality, e) powers exercised, f) patronages and g) progeny or posterity.Gabrielle d'Estrées (1571-1599)
Proprietary Titles: Marquise of Monceaux & Duchess of Beaufort & Duchess of Etampes, 1598-1599
GARSENDA DE BIGORRE (986-1032/34)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Bigorre
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter and heiress of Garcia Arnaud (d.1025/1046)
Partner/Progeny: She married Bernard Roger of Carcassonne (981-1036/38). (See) Garsende de Sabran
Gersinde II of Sabran
GARSENDE DE FORCALQUIER (c1180-c1242
Proprietary Title: Countess of Forcalquier, 1209
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Renier of Sabran, Lord of Caylar & Ansouis, and Garsende who inherited Forcalquier from her grandfather, Guillaume IV of Forcalquier.
Power Exercised: Countess of Provence; Regent of Provence, 1209/13-1217/20, for her son Raymond Berengar IV of Provence.
Partner/Progeny: Married in 1193 Alphonse II of Provence
Garsenda de Urgel
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Forcalquier, Lady of La Tour d'Aigues and Ansouis
Patrimony/Properties: (See Map of the County of Forcalquier)Garsende de Provence
Power Exercised: Regent, 1229-1240 for Gaston VII of Bearn
Gauze of Nimes
Proprietary Title: Viscountess of NimesPartner/Progeny:"...Bernard's grandson, also Bernard, acquired the viscounty of Nimes through his marriage to the heiress, Gauze, in the mid-tenth century...." (Graham-Leigh, p. 42)Gentile Brancaleoni (d.1459)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Mercatello sul Metauro, Lady of Massa TrabariaGerarde de Navailles (c1330-?)
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Navailles and Sault
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Garcie Arnaud V of Navailles and Bernarde of Miramont
Partner/Progeny: Married in 1350 Roger Bernard II of Foix, Viscount of Castelbon, with whom she had 2 sons and a daughter.
GERAUDE DE BIRAN
[Tree1]
Proprietary Titles: Dame de Biran and d'Ordan
Parents/Pedigree: Barthelemi de Biran, Seigneur d'Ordan
Partner/Progeny: Married in 1303 Arnaud-Guilhem III de Montlezun (1270-1340), Comte de Pardiac. Gerberge deProvence (1060-1115)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Provence and Arles, 1093-1112Parents/Pedigree: Eldest daughter of Geoffroy II of Provence, Marquis and Count of Provence, and Etienette
Partner/Progeny: Married in 1058 Gilbert of Gevaudan, Viscount of Gevauan, of Millau and of Carlat, with whom she had 2 daughters.
Notes: "...When Gerberga, heiress to the county of Provence, married the viscount of Millau, he took the title count of Provence alongside his wife, and his portion of the familial lands of Millau and the Gevaudan fell to her, through whom they passed in 1112 to their daughter Douce and her husband Ramon-Berenguer of Brcelona. The Barcelonese now bore the title 'count of Provence,' but Provence remained a separate territory and the countship a separable title." (Evergates, pp. 154-155)
Gersende de Bigorre (d.1032/34)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Bigorre
Gersende de Maine (1030-1074)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Maine
Gersende II de Sabran (1180-1242)
a.k.a. Garsenda of Forcalquier
Proprietary Title: Countess of Forcalquier, 1209Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Rainon II of Sabran (d.1209), Lord of Caylar and of Ansouis, 1155-1209, and Garsinde of Forcalquier
Partner/Progeny: Married in 1193, Alfonso Berenguer of Aragon who succeeded his father as Alfonso II, Count of Provence, Millau and Razes.
Gersende de Urgel
Proprietary Title: Lady of Forcalquier, 1209-?
Gertrud von Nordheim (c1090-1154/65)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Bentheim, Countess of Rheineck
Parents/Pedigree: She was the youngest daughter of Heinrich of Nordheim, Margrave of Frisia, and Gertrud of Brunswick.
Properties/Patrimony: She inherited Bentheim and Rheineck.
Partners/Progeny: Married (1) Siegfried I of Weimar-Orlamunde (d.1113), Count Palatine of Lorraine; (2) married @1115/20 Otto I of Salm, with issue (d.1150), Count of Rheineck, with issue.
GERTRUD VON SACHSEN (c1080s-1117)
a.k.a Gertrud von Meissen
Proprietary Title: Heiress of Brunswick.
Notes: "Henry the Fat, Duke of Saxony, on the Weser, married Gertraut, daughter of Egbert II last Margrave of Saxony and Thuringia, descended from Henry Rixosus, eldest son of Henry Duke of Bavaria. She was heiress of Brunswic (sic). He died in 1101, having had by her [several issue]....." (Collins, p. 15)
GERTRUDE DE NESLE (d.1239)
[Gen1]
Proprietary Title: Lady of Nesle
Parents/Pedigree: Elder daughter of Jean I de Nesle (d.c1200), and of Elisabeth van Peteghem (d.1204).
Partner/Progeny: Married (1) Renaud de Mello (d.1201); (2) Raoul de Clerment (d.1226), Lord of Ailly.
Giordana di Sanseverino
Proprietary Title: Lady of Solofra
GIOVANNA I DI NAPOLI (1328-1382)
a.k.a. Jeanne d'Anjou, Giovanna d'Angio
the Mary Stuart of Italy, the Sad Queen
[Bio1] [Bio2]
Proprietary Titles: Queen of Naples, 1343-1383;Countess of Provence and Forcalquier, Princess of Achaea, 1373/75-1381.
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Carlo, Duke of Calabira, and of Marie de Valois.
Partners/Progeny: Married (1) Endre of Hungary (d.1345); (2) Luigi of Taranto (d.1362); (3) in 1363, Jaime IV of Mallorca (d.1376); (4) Otto von Brunswick-Grubenhagen.
Notes: "...The territory inherited by Joanna, queen of Naples, as countess of Provence, comprised the greater and the richer part of the ancient kingdom of Aries, which in the ninth century had been separated from the empire of Charlemagne by the marriage of Hermengarde, daughter of Louis the Debonnaire, with Bozon, count of Ardennes, and which, on the death of his descendant, Rodolph the Slothful, was again subdivided into the sovereign fiefs of Vienne or Dauphine; the Maurienne or Duchy of Savoy; the Lyonaois ; Piedmont, from the Var to the Taglia; the county of Arles or Eastern Provence, south and east of the Durance, from the Rhone to the Var ; the county of Fourcalquier or Western Provence, between the Rhone and the Durance; the Venaissin or county of Avignon ; the principality of Orange, which gave title to William of Nassau, to whom Britain owes so much, and a few other unimportant baronies, dependant on Provence." (Historical Life of Joanna of Sicily, pp. 2-3)
Giovanna II of Naples
Giovanna III of Naples
Giovanna de Fessima
Patrimony/Properties:"...brought in her dowry the barony of Raddusa when she married Giovanni Francesco who was invested in 1500 with lower Imbacarri and Mirabella in Catania.
Giovanna Carafa
Proprietary Title: Countess of Roddi, 1525-1534.
Gisela Agnes von Rath (1669-1740)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Nienburg, 1694-1740 [65]
GIUSTIANA DONNA ORSINI
[Ref1]
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter and heiress of Don Giovanni Antonio Orsini, 1st Principe de Scandriglia, 2nd Duca di San Gemini, Conte di Nerola
Partner/Progeny: Married Ferdinandi, 4th Duca di Bracciano (d.1660)
Grapella dalle Carceri
Proprietary Title: Princess of Euboea, 1262-1264 [66]
Guglielma Pallavicini (1311-1358)
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Thermopylae, Marchioness of Bodonitsa, 1311 [67]
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter and heiress of Alberto Pallavicini and Maria della Carceri
Progeny/Posterity: Niccolo I Giorgio.
Notes: "...was a true descendant of the first Marquess. Of all the rulers of Boudinitza, with his exception, she was the most self-willed, and she might be included in that by no means small number of strong-minded, unscrupulous, and passionate women, whom Turkish Greece produced and whom classic Greece might have envied as subjects for her tragic stage.)."
Notes: "...On the death of her Genoese husband, she considered that both the proximity of Boudinitza to the Venetian colony of Negroponte and her long-standing claims to the castle of Larmena in that island required that she should marry a Venetian, especially as the decision of her claim and even her right to reside in the island depended upon the Venetian bailies. Accordingly, she begged the Republuc to give her one of its nobles as her consort, and promised dutifully to accept whomsoever the Senate might choose. The choice fell upon Nicolo Giorgio, or Zorzi, to give him the Venetian form of the name, who belonged to a distinguished family which had given a Doge to the Republic and had recently assisted young Walter of Brienne in his abortive campaign to recover his father's lost duchy from the Catalans. A Venetian galley escorted him 1335 to the have of Boudonitza, and a Marquess, the founder of a new line, once more ruled over the castle of the Pallavicini." (Essays on the Orient, p. 251)
Guillemette von Neuchatel (1270-1317)
a. k. a. Guillemette of Neuenburg
Proprietary Title: Lady of Montbeliard
GUILLERMA DE MONCADA
"...Sancho, the second son of Alfonso the Wise, king of Castile,...had previously been contracted to Dona Guillermina de Moncada, daughter of Gaston, Viscount of Bearn, niece of Don Lope de Haro, and the richest heiress of Castile, though as deficient in beauty as in temper. Fortunately, both for the domestic happiness of Sanche, and the welfare of the nation, the match was broken off...." (George, p. 232)
Guillerma I de Pallars-Sobira (d.1250)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Pallars-Sobira, 1199-1229
Guillermina de Pallars-Soubira
Proprietary Title: Countess of Pallars-Soubira
Guinidilda de Rousillon
Proprietary Title:
Parents/Pedigree: Heiress of Miron I, Count of Rousillon. [68]
Guinodeon de Porhoet
Proprietary Title: Countess of Porhoet
Proprietary Titles: Marquise of Monceaux & Duchess of Beaufort & Duchess of Etampes, 1598-1599
GARSENDA DE BIGORRE (986-1032/34)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Bigorre
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter and heiress of Garcia Arnaud (d.1025/1046)
Partner/Progeny: She married Bernard Roger of Carcassonne (981-1036/38). (See) Garsende de Sabran
Gersinde II of Sabran
GARSENDE DE FORCALQUIER (c1180-c1242
Proprietary Title: Countess of Forcalquier, 1209
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Renier of Sabran, Lord of Caylar & Ansouis, and Garsende who inherited Forcalquier from her grandfather, Guillaume IV of Forcalquier.
Power Exercised: Countess of Provence; Regent of Provence, 1209/13-1217/20, for her son Raymond Berengar IV of Provence.
Partner/Progeny: Married in 1193 Alphonse II of Provence
Garsenda de Urgel
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Forcalquier, Lady of La Tour d'Aigues and Ansouis
Patrimony/Properties: (See Map of the County of Forcalquier)Garsende de Provence
Power Exercised: Regent, 1229-1240 for Gaston VII of Bearn
Gauze of Nimes
Proprietary Title: Viscountess of NimesPartner/Progeny:"...Bernard's grandson, also Bernard, acquired the viscounty of Nimes through his marriage to the heiress, Gauze, in the mid-tenth century...." (Graham-Leigh, p. 42)Gentile Brancaleoni (d.1459)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Mercatello sul Metauro, Lady of Massa TrabariaGerarde de Navailles (c1330-?)
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Navailles and Sault
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Garcie Arnaud V of Navailles and Bernarde of Miramont
Partner/Progeny: Married in 1350 Roger Bernard II of Foix, Viscount of Castelbon, with whom she had 2 sons and a daughter.
GERAUDE DE BIRAN
[Tree1]
Proprietary Titles: Dame de Biran and d'Ordan
Parents/Pedigree: Barthelemi de Biran, Seigneur d'Ordan
Partner/Progeny: Married in 1303 Arnaud-Guilhem III de Montlezun (1270-1340), Comte de Pardiac. Gerberge deProvence (1060-1115)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Provence and Arles, 1093-1112Parents/Pedigree: Eldest daughter of Geoffroy II of Provence, Marquis and Count of Provence, and Etienette
Partner/Progeny: Married in 1058 Gilbert of Gevaudan, Viscount of Gevauan, of Millau and of Carlat, with whom she had 2 daughters.
Notes: "...When Gerberga, heiress to the county of Provence, married the viscount of Millau, he took the title count of Provence alongside his wife, and his portion of the familial lands of Millau and the Gevaudan fell to her, through whom they passed in 1112 to their daughter Douce and her husband Ramon-Berenguer of Brcelona. The Barcelonese now bore the title 'count of Provence,' but Provence remained a separate territory and the countship a separable title." (Evergates, pp. 154-155)
Gersende de Bigorre (d.1032/34)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Bigorre
Gersende de Maine (1030-1074)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Maine
Gersende II de Sabran (1180-1242)
a.k.a. Garsenda of Forcalquier
Proprietary Title: Countess of Forcalquier, 1209Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Rainon II of Sabran (d.1209), Lord of Caylar and of Ansouis, 1155-1209, and Garsinde of Forcalquier
Partner/Progeny: Married in 1193, Alfonso Berenguer of Aragon who succeeded his father as Alfonso II, Count of Provence, Millau and Razes.
Gersende de Urgel
Proprietary Title: Lady of Forcalquier, 1209-?
Gertrud von Nordheim (c1090-1154/65)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Bentheim, Countess of Rheineck
Parents/Pedigree: She was the youngest daughter of Heinrich of Nordheim, Margrave of Frisia, and Gertrud of Brunswick.
Properties/Patrimony: She inherited Bentheim and Rheineck.
Partners/Progeny: Married (1) Siegfried I of Weimar-Orlamunde (d.1113), Count Palatine of Lorraine; (2) married @1115/20 Otto I of Salm, with issue (d.1150), Count of Rheineck, with issue.
GERTRUD VON SACHSEN (c1080s-1117)
a.k.a Gertrud von Meissen
Proprietary Title: Heiress of Brunswick.
Notes: "Henry the Fat, Duke of Saxony, on the Weser, married Gertraut, daughter of Egbert II last Margrave of Saxony and Thuringia, descended from Henry Rixosus, eldest son of Henry Duke of Bavaria. She was heiress of Brunswic (sic). He died in 1101, having had by her [several issue]....." (Collins, p. 15)
GERTRUDE DE NESLE (d.1239)
[Gen1]
Proprietary Title: Lady of Nesle
Parents/Pedigree: Elder daughter of Jean I de Nesle (d.c1200), and of Elisabeth van Peteghem (d.1204).
Partner/Progeny: Married (1) Renaud de Mello (d.1201); (2) Raoul de Clerment (d.1226), Lord of Ailly.
Giordana di Sanseverino
Proprietary Title: Lady of Solofra
GIOVANNA I DI NAPOLI (1328-1382)
a.k.a. Jeanne d'Anjou, Giovanna d'Angio
the Mary Stuart of Italy, the Sad Queen
[Bio1] [Bio2]
Proprietary Titles: Queen of Naples, 1343-1383;Countess of Provence and Forcalquier, Princess of Achaea, 1373/75-1381.
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Carlo, Duke of Calabira, and of Marie de Valois.
Partners/Progeny: Married (1) Endre of Hungary (d.1345); (2) Luigi of Taranto (d.1362); (3) in 1363, Jaime IV of Mallorca (d.1376); (4) Otto von Brunswick-Grubenhagen.
Notes: "...The territory inherited by Joanna, queen of Naples, as countess of Provence, comprised the greater and the richer part of the ancient kingdom of Aries, which in the ninth century had been separated from the empire of Charlemagne by the marriage of Hermengarde, daughter of Louis the Debonnaire, with Bozon, count of Ardennes, and which, on the death of his descendant, Rodolph the Slothful, was again subdivided into the sovereign fiefs of Vienne or Dauphine; the Maurienne or Duchy of Savoy; the Lyonaois ; Piedmont, from the Var to the Taglia; the county of Arles or Eastern Provence, south and east of the Durance, from the Rhone to the Var ; the county of Fourcalquier or Western Provence, between the Rhone and the Durance; the Venaissin or county of Avignon ; the principality of Orange, which gave title to William of Nassau, to whom Britain owes so much, and a few other unimportant baronies, dependant on Provence." (Historical Life of Joanna of Sicily, pp. 2-3)
Giovanna II of Naples
Giovanna III of Naples
Giovanna de Fessima
Patrimony/Properties:"...brought in her dowry the barony of Raddusa when she married Giovanni Francesco who was invested in 1500 with lower Imbacarri and Mirabella in Catania.
Giovanna Carafa
Proprietary Title: Countess of Roddi, 1525-1534.
Gisela Agnes von Rath (1669-1740)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Nienburg, 1694-1740 [65]
GIUSTIANA DONNA ORSINI
[Ref1]
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter and heiress of Don Giovanni Antonio Orsini, 1st Principe de Scandriglia, 2nd Duca di San Gemini, Conte di Nerola
Partner/Progeny: Married Ferdinandi, 4th Duca di Bracciano (d.1660)
Grapella dalle Carceri
Proprietary Title: Princess of Euboea, 1262-1264 [66]
Guglielma Pallavicini (1311-1358)
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Thermopylae, Marchioness of Bodonitsa, 1311 [67]
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter and heiress of Alberto Pallavicini and Maria della Carceri
Progeny/Posterity: Niccolo I Giorgio.
Notes: "...was a true descendant of the first Marquess. Of all the rulers of Boudinitza, with his exception, she was the most self-willed, and she might be included in that by no means small number of strong-minded, unscrupulous, and passionate women, whom Turkish Greece produced and whom classic Greece might have envied as subjects for her tragic stage.)."
Notes: "...On the death of her Genoese husband, she considered that both the proximity of Boudinitza to the Venetian colony of Negroponte and her long-standing claims to the castle of Larmena in that island required that she should marry a Venetian, especially as the decision of her claim and even her right to reside in the island depended upon the Venetian bailies. Accordingly, she begged the Republuc to give her one of its nobles as her consort, and promised dutifully to accept whomsoever the Senate might choose. The choice fell upon Nicolo Giorgio, or Zorzi, to give him the Venetian form of the name, who belonged to a distinguished family which had given a Doge to the Republic and had recently assisted young Walter of Brienne in his abortive campaign to recover his father's lost duchy from the Catalans. A Venetian galley escorted him 1335 to the have of Boudonitza, and a Marquess, the founder of a new line, once more ruled over the castle of the Pallavicini." (Essays on the Orient, p. 251)
Guillemette von Neuchatel (1270-1317)
a. k. a. Guillemette of Neuenburg
Proprietary Title: Lady of Montbeliard
GUILLERMA DE MONCADA
"...Sancho, the second son of Alfonso the Wise, king of Castile,...had previously been contracted to Dona Guillermina de Moncada, daughter of Gaston, Viscount of Bearn, niece of Don Lope de Haro, and the richest heiress of Castile, though as deficient in beauty as in temper. Fortunately, both for the domestic happiness of Sanche, and the welfare of the nation, the match was broken off...." (George, p. 232)
Guillerma I de Pallars-Sobira (d.1250)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Pallars-Sobira, 1199-1229
Guillermina de Pallars-Soubira
Proprietary Title: Countess of Pallars-Soubira
Guinidilda de Rousillon
Proprietary Title:
Parents/Pedigree: Heiress of Miron I, Count of Rousillon. [68]
Guinodeon de Porhoet
Proprietary Title: Countess of Porhoet
Regent-Viscountess of Béarn, 1136-1147
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