Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Royal Women in Power L

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.

LAURE DE CHABANAIS (1245-1316)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Bigorre, 1283-1292.
Parents/Pedigree:  Jordan Eschivat III, Lord of Chabanis and Confolens, and of Alix de Montfort, Countess of Bigorre.
Partners/Progeny:  (1) Simon de Rochechouart, Lord of Availles, with whom she had 1 son and 2 daughters; (2) Raymond VI (d.1304), Viscout of Turenne, but had no children.

LAURE DE MONTFORT (1240-1270)
[Fam1]
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Épernon and Gambais.
Parents/Pedigree:  Amaury IV (1192-?, Count of Montfort, and of Beatrix de Viennois.
Partner/Progeny:  Married in 1256, Fernando de Castilla (1238-?), Count of Aumale, with whom she had Jean I de Castille (1265-?), Count of Aumale.

Proprietary Titles: Countess of Saarbrücken, 1252-1271

Proprietary Titles: Heiress of Urgel 

Leonore of Rohan (1539–83)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Rochefort 

Proprietary Titles: Duchess of Burgundy 

Proprietary Titles: Countess of Falkenstein 

Proprietary Titles: Viscountess of Limoges 

Proprietary Titles: Countess of Valangin, 1518–1519 

Louise d'Aumont (1759–1826)
Proprietary Titles: Duchess of la Meilleraye, Mayenne & Rethel, 1781-1789 


LOUISE DE CHAULNES
Proprietary Title:  3rd Comtesse de Chaulnes
Parents/Pedigree: Charles d'Ongnies, 2nd Comte de Chaulnes
Partner/Progeny: Philibert Emmanuel d'Ailly (d.1617), 26th Sire de Raineval, etc., and 25th Vidame d'Amiens and Sire de Picquigny. [Ruvigny, 2000, p. 343]

Louise de Montpensier (1483–1561) 
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Mortain, 1530–1561, Countess of Montpensier, 1538–1539, Duchess of Montpensier, 1522–1561, Dauphine of Auvergne, 1538–1561, Duchess of Auvergne, 1538–1561 

Proprietary Titles: Lady of Baux, 1403–1421.
Louise de Clermont
Countess of Tonnerre 
LOUISE DE CLERMONT (1504-1596)
Proprietary Titles:  Countess of Tonnerre, 1546-1596.
Parents/PedigreeBernardin de Clermont and of Anne de Husson, Countess of Tonnerre.
Partners/Progeny:  (1) 1539, Francois du Bellay (1539-1554), with whom she had a son; (2) 1556, Antoine de Crussol.

Proprietary Titles: Countess of Brienne, 1608–1647 

Louise de Savoy (1476–1531)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Beaumont-en-Anjou, 1515–1516, Countess of Maine, 1515–1531, Countess of Beaufort, Countess of Gien, Duchess of Beaufort, 1515–1518, Duchess of Angoulême, 1515–1531; Duchess of Anjou, 1515–1531, Duchess of Nemours, 1524–1531, Duchess of Bourbon, 1527-1531.

Proprietary Titles: Countess of Brienne, 1647-?. 

Proprietary Titles: Duchess of Étampes, 1718–1752 

Louise Jean de Durfort (1735–1781)
Proprietary Titles: Duchess of la Meilleraye, Mayenne, Mazarin & Rethel, 1738-1781 

Proprietary Titles: Duchess of Étampes, 1752–1759 

Proprietary Titles: Princess of Monaco, 1731 

a.k.a. Louise Marie Adélaïde of Bourbon-Penthièvre 
Proprietary Titles:Duchess of Aumale, 1814–1821; Countess of Eu, 1793-1821 

Proprietary Titles: Baroness of Petersfield, Countess of Fareham, 1st Duchess of Portsmouth & 1st Duchess of Aubigny.

LUCIE DE MATIGNON
Proprietary Title:  Dame de Matignon.
Properties:  See History of Matignon.
Notes: "...The family of Goyon had acquired the title to the lordhip of Matignon (in Brittany) in 1209 when Etienne Goyon had married the heiress Lucie de Matignon...."  (Busby, p. 206)

LUCIE DE TRIPOLI (1265-1299)
a.k.a. Lucie de Poitiers
[Bio1] [Fam1] [Gen1]
Proprietary Title:  Countess of Tripoli, 1287–1289, succeeding her brother Bohemund VII.
Parents/Pedigree:  Daughter of Bohemund VI of Antioch, and of Sibylla of Armenia.
Partner/Progeny:  Mariied in 1275/1278, Narjot de Toucy (d.1292), Lord of Terza, with whom she had a son, Philippe de Toucy, Lord of Terza. 

Lucrezia Pignatelli (1704–1760)
Proprietary Titles: 4th Princess of Strongoli, 6th Countess of Melissa, Duchess of Tolve 

Proprietary Titles: Duchess of Najera, 1558–1585

Lukarde von Leiningen
Proprietary Titles: Heiress of Leiningen 

Lady of Gex

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REFERENCES
Busby, Keith (1993).  The Manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes.  Amsterdam: Rodopi B.V.

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