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.
Heiress of Jarald Gulskeg, Jarl of Sogn who brought her father's territory to her husband Halfdan the Black Gudrodsson (808-848. [140]
a.k.a. Reine of Got or Goth
Heiress to Lomagne & Auvillars
Renee of Anjou (d.1597)
Duchess of Saint-Fergau, 1568-?
Marquise of Mezieres, 1568-?.
Renee of France (1510-1575)
Duchess of Chartres
"In 1560, Renée left the duchy and returned to France, to her dower town of Montargis. She then undertook a legal action against the crown to recover at least partially her maternal and paternal inheritance, a law suit which occupied her unsuccessfully for ten years. . . ."
Countess of Dunois, Tancarville & Montgomery, 1513-1515
Renee of Savoy (1535-1587)
Countess of Tende.
Ricciarda Malaspina (1497-1553)
Duchess of Carrara, Duchess of Massa
Richilde of Hainaut (c1031-1086)
Countess of Hainaut, 1040-1051
Countess of Flanders, 1067-1070
" . . . [Richilde] spent eleven years as countess of Hainaut (1040-51), then sixteen years with her second husband, Baldwin of Flanders, before he succeeded his father as count Baldwin VI of Flanders (1067-70). From the beginning of her marriage to Baldwin, Richilde actively sought to retain her first husband's inheritance in her own hand... As countess of Hainaut Richilde built a castle at Beaumont, one of the three most important castles of the counts, and erected and endowed a chapel there in honor of St. Venantius. With her son Baldwin she acted against the abuses of advocates or 'protectors' of churches and monasteries, who often usurped lands and income from churches instead of protecting them. Together they built the monastery of Saint-Denis-en-Broque-roie. And by installing hereditary household officials in Hainaut similar to the ones in Flanders, they began the task of dominating the unruly nobles of Hainaut. Richilde acted as regent until 1083, when she retired to the abbey of Messines, and died the following year. . . ." (Evergates: 116)
Lady of Dyck
Heiress of Tecklenburg-Ibbenburen
She was the only daughter of of Otto IV of Tecklenburg and his wife Beatrice of Cuyk-Rietberg. She inherited Tecklenburg--Ibbenburen when her younger brother, Otto V, died in 1328 without any children. She married Gunther VI (d.1327), Count of Schwerin-Wittenburg-Boizenburg by which Tecklenburg passed to the family of the Counts of Schwerin. (GenWiki)
Richenza of Nordheim (1087-1141)
German Empress
"...Richenza, the female parent of an heiress, was herself an heiress, and the daughter of an heiress. From her father, Duke Henry, she claimed the county or principality of Nordheim in the southern part of the Electorate of Hanover; from her mother, Gertrude, she derived the city and country of Brunswick, which had been enjoyed by four successive generations of her ancestors...." (Gibbon, p. 144)
Richenza of Nordheim (1087-1141)
German Empress
"...Richenza, the female parent of an heiress, was herself an heiress, and the daughter of an heiress. From her father, Duke Henry, she claimed the county or principality of Nordheim in the southern part of the Electorate of Hanover; from her mother, Gertrude, she derived the city and country of Brunswick, which had been enjoyed by four successive generations of her ancestors...." (Gibbon, p. 144)
Rixinde de Narbonne (d.1079)
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Berenger, Viscount of Narbonne, and Gersende of Besalu
Progeny/Posterity: Married her cousin Richard (d.c1050), Viscount of Millau and of Gevaudan, with whom she had 6 children.
Roberte of Beaumez
Lady of Croisilles
Roscie of Caylar (d. after 1192)
Roscie of Caylar (d. after 1192)
Lady of Uzes
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Uzes & of Caylar
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Renier I Decaen of Uzes (1110-1156), Lord of Caylar and Beatrice (1115-?), Lady of Caylar
Partner/Progeny: Married c1155 Rostaing I of Sabran (c1130-c1208), Lord of Uzes, with whom she had Reinier of Sabran (c1160-c1224), Lord of Caylar.
Rotruda of Barcelona (d.844)
Countess of Empúries
Daughter of Berà I, Count of Barcelona and Rasés, and Ramil·la. Wife of Count Alaric d'Empúries. Inherited several important freeholds from her father, such as Canavelles, Tresvalls and Ocènies (Conflent). These properties were inherited by her daughter Anna, and an abbot known as Albert, who gave them all to Protasi, founder of Eixalada. Count Salomó of Cerdanya made a groundless attempt to claim them as his own in 868."
a. k. a. Rozala of Provence and Susannah of Italy
Countess of Montreuil and Ponthieu
She was the daughter of Berengar II, King of Italy, and Willa of Tuscany. She was married to Arnulf II of Flanders (d.988), with whom she had 3 children. She acted as regent, 988, for their son, Baldwin IV of Flanders. After Arnulf's death, she married Robert "the Pious," who became king of France and to whom she brought Montreuil and Ponthieu as dowry.
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