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DEVORGUILLA OF GALLOWAY (1210-1290)
a.k.a. Devorgild
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Proprietary Titles: Lady of Galloway.
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter and heir of Alan, Lord of Galloway, and of Margaret of Huntingdon.
Partner/Progeny: Married in 1223, John, 5th Baron de Balliol (d.1269). She's the mother of John I of Scotland.
Note: "The most outstanding female patron of the thirteenth century was, however, Devorgild of Galloway. The Chronicle of Lanercost described her as 'a woman great in wealth and estates in England as well as in Scotland, but much greater in nobility of heart, in as much as she was the daughter and heir of the magnificent Alan, formerly Lord of Galloway. She was also a co-heiress to the earldom of Chester and on the death of her sister, Christina, inherited her share also... Devorgild founded a house for the Blackfriars at Wigtown, probably in 1267, and it is probable that she was also the founder of Greyfriars' houses at Dumfries... and at Dundee in 1284... Devorgild died in 1290...." (Gee, p. 19)
DIANA DE VERE
a.k.a. Diana Beauclerk
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter and heiress Aubrey de Vere, 20th and last Earl of Oxford
Progeny/Posterity: Married Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St. Albans
Persona: Diana...was a well-known beauty who became lady of the bedchamber to Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales...." (Icon, p. 363)
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| Diane de Poitiers Duchess of Valentinois |
Proprietary Titles: Duchess of Valentinois, Countess of Albon, Lady of Saint-Vallier.
Note: " . . . She was herself a major political presence in the province as the widow of the late governor and grand senechal Louis de Breze (d.1531). Diane remained in control of the large affinity and landholding interest which had made Louis an important provincial nobleman, last head of a lineage important in Normandy since the Valois reconquest. The marriages of their two daughters were used to extend her authority. . . ." (Carroll: 20)
Proprietary Titles: Duchess of Sagan and Lady of Nachod, 1845-1862, (succeeded her sister, Pauline of Courland)
Note: "The Duchess of Sagan-Talleyrand, Dorothe, Duchess of Courland, married to the nephew of the old Prince Talleyrand. She lived with the old Prince, as, as Duchesse de Dino, did the honours of his home in Vienna and London. She inherited the duchy of Sagan from her sister. She was a very distinguished woman." (Weigall, p. 321) (See also)
DOROTHEA VON MEDEM
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Lobichau, 1795
DOUCE I OF PROVENCE (1090-1127)
Dulcia, Dulce, Dolca
Douce of Rouergue
Douce of Gevaudan
Proprietary Titles: Marquise and Countess of Provence, 1112-1127; Viscountess of Millau, of Gevaudan and of Carlat.
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Gilbert of Gevaudan, Viscount of Gevaudan, Millau and Carlat & Gerberge of Provence, Countess of Provence.
Partner(s): Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona, mar 1112.
Patrimony/Properties: "Berengar III of Barcelona married Douce, "the heiress to much of Provence, the county of Gevaudan, the Viscounty of Millau, half of the viscounty of Carlat, and honours in the Rouergue. Her lands formed a reasonably coherent block for the younger son of their marriage, who increased them by marrying the heiress of Melgueil. . . ." (Dunbabin: 300)
Note: "It is the time of Raymond I des Baux (1095-1150) that marks the family's great struggle for power in Provence. Raymond married Eriennette, daughter of Gilbert, count of Provence. Gilbert's elder daughter, Douce, had married Raymond Berenger IV, count of Barcelona. Gilbert died without a male heir in 1109, and Douce inherited eastern Provence, assigning control in 1113 to her husband, who already ruled the western part of Provence. . . ." (Northern Europe: International Dictionary of Historic Places: 84)
Note: " . . . By the mid-eleventh century, a clearer picture of the ascendancy of the viscounts in the Gevaudan emerged in the diplomatic record. . . Through a series of marriages, the viscounts of the Gevaudan came to hold multiple titles. Hence, when, in 1112, Douce, the granddaughter of Berenger and the sole heir of his son Gilbert, married Raymond Berenger III, the count of Barcelona, she was the viscountess of Millau, Gevaudan, and Carlat, and marquise of Provence. Because she was the last of her indigenous line, the marriage made the viscounty of Gevaudan a possession the counts of Barcelona. . . ." (Bulman: 18)
DOUCE II OF PROVENCE (d.1172)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Provence, 1166-1167
Parents/Pedigree: Only child and heiress of Raymond Berenger II of Provence and Ryksa of Silesia, widow of Alfonso VII of Castile and Leon.
Note: "...Douce (was) the only daughter and sole heir of Raimon-Berenger II; however, Douce, who died in 1172, seems ot have held the title only technically, since it was usurped from her while she was still a girl, and she lived out her life in virtual seclusion, far from the centers of troubadour culture...." (Bogin, p. 171)
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