Brief lives of women who reigned or ruled in their own right or by marriage by providing their a) personal and family background; b) proprietary titles; c) patrimony and properties; d) persona or personality;e) powers exercised, f) patronages and g) partner(s) and progeny.
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Salisbury, 1196ELA OF SALISBURY (c1187-1261)
Parents/Pedigree: "Ela, the only child of William, Earl of Salisbury, and Alianore (or Eleanor) de Vitrei, was born at Amesbury, in Wiltshire, in the year 1189. When Ela was seven years old, her father, 'through the weakness of age, departed to Christ.' From this expression being employed concerning Earl William, his little daughter seems to have been 'the child of his old age.'. . . Ela was thus left alone, with great wealth, vast estates, and the title of Countess of Salisbury in her own right." (Holt. Memoirs of Royal Ladies, Vol 1: 7)
Partner/Progeny: " . . . King Richard I gave Ela, who was born about 1191, to his bastard brother, William Longespee, with the Earldom of Salisbury. When Longespee died, 7 Mar 1225/26, his widow was required to surrender Salisbury Castle, but about two weeks later, on 23 March, she was granted the county of Wiltshire at the king's pleasure. In 1229 she founded Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire, taking the veil there in 1238. She was Abbess of Lacock from 1240 to 1257, and died there 24 Aug 1261."
"William de Longespee was the son of the celebrated Ela countess of Salisbury, who served the office of Sheriff of the county of Wilts for several successive years, being the only female to whom such a public office and active charge had ever before bee committed. . . ." (Phelps. The History and Antiquities of Somersetshire, Vol 1, Parts 3-6: 326)
Persona: "...Her contemporaries considered her a great beauty; she was tall, with an oval face, a long slender neck, and thick luxuriant hair---of what colour no chronicler has recorded." (Connolly. Heroines of the Medieval World)
ELEANOR D'AQUITAINE
a.k.a. Alienor d'Aquitaine, Eleanor of Aquitaine
"Two other disasters followed. Quiet unexpectedly, both Eleanor's mother and her brother, William Aigret, became ill and died. This, of course, left Eleanor, age eight, as the heiress to her father's extensive lands. His lands consisted of a quarter of present-day France. Eleanor must have been increasingly aware of just how important she had become---arguably, the most important girl in Europe." (Hilliam, p. 13)
ELEANOR DE BRITTANY (1184-1241)
a.k.a. Alienor de Bretagne, Eleanor of Brittany, Eleanor Plantagenet
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Richmond.
ELENA DE GALLURA
Proprietary Titles: Judge of Gallura, 1203-1217.
a.k.a. Elianora Cappai de Bas, Elionor d'Arborea, Elionor de Molins de Rei
Proprietary Titles: Judge of Arborea, 1383-1404.
Parents/Pedigree: Eleonora was the daughter of Marianus IV of Arborea and of his wife Timbora de Rocaberti.
Power Exercised: Regent of Arborea, 1383-1387, for her son Federico di Arborea, and, 1387-1392, for her younger son Marianus V.
" . . . The code called 'Sa Carta de Logu,' was promulgated by Eleanor, Giudicessa of Arborea, in 1395, and is, indeed, a remarkable proof of the administrative capacity of that extraordinary woman, who could thus not only maintain her independence against the incessant attacks of the Aragonese, but likewise provide for the internal regulations of her own dominions. . . ." (Greatheed: 239)
Partner/Progeny: She was married to Brancaleone Doria,a Genoese nobleman.
ELEONORA DI RODDI
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Roddi, 1588-1620.
ELEONORE DE BOURBON(1410-1463)
Proprietary Titles: Duchess of Nemours, 1425-1462; Countess of La Marche and Castres, 1435-1462.
ELIZABETH SENN
" . . . Elizabeth Senn, heiress to the counts of Bucheck, also sold to the town of Soleure the castles of Bucheck, Teufelsburg and Balmeck." (Vieusseux: 77)
ERMENGARDE DE TONNERRE (1032-1082)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Tonnerre, 1045-1082
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Renaud of Tonnerre (d.1039).
Partner/Progeny: Married in 1045 Guillaume I of Nevers (1029-1100), in right of his wife, Count of Tonnerre, 1045-1100, with whom she had 6 children.
" . . . The heiress of Tonnerre, Ermengarde, eldest sister of Humberge, wife to Bernard, Count of Montbard (father of Aleth and Andre de Montbard), married Guillaume I of Nevers and their line would culminate with the eastern Latin emperors of Constantinople, the imperial house of Courtenay. . . ." (Albany and Salhab: 87)
ESCLARMONDE DE MASSAS (d.1487)
a.k.a. Florimonde de Massas
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Proprietary Titles: Dame de Lestangue, Ausan and Blanquefort
Parents/Pedigree: Pierre de Massas, Seigneur de Lestangue, Ausan and Blanquefort.
Partner/Progeny: Married, in 1463, as his 1st wife, Antoine de Montlezun (1435-1484), Seigneur de Meilhan and Castin, with whom she had a son, Bernard de Montlezun.
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