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.
Hatshepsut
Proprietary Title: Pharaoh of Egypt
Hawise d'Aumale (1165-1214)
a.k.a. Havoise, Hadwide
[Bio1]
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Aumale and Lady of Holderness, 1179-1194, Lady of Skipton
Properties: Bytham Castle [Brown: 77]. "At the death of her father, she inherits the entire family heritage, and the barinies of Skipton and Copeland from her mother." "...After his (William le Gros) death in 1189 his daughter and heiress, Hawise, eventually brought his lands and lordships to William de Forz... and their descendants; but meanwhile the lady's first husband, William de Mandeville earl of Essex, had granted Bytham to his tenant, William de Coleville, to be held of the Lords of Holderness for the service of 2 1/s knights' fees...." (Brown, p. 77)
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter and heiress of William le Gros (d.1179), Count of Aumale, Earl of Yorkshire and Lord of Holderness, and Cicely Fitz-Duncan (a.k.a. Cecily de Rumigny), Lady of Skipton, daughter and co-heir of William Fitz-Duncan and Alice le Meschin, Lady of Skipton.
Progeny/Posterity: Married (1) in 1180 William de Mandeville (d. 1189), 3rd Earl of Essex, 1166-1189, with whom she had no issue. "...His son, William de Mandeville, was Henry's leading counsellor in later years, and was made mightier still by his marriage to Hawisia, heiress of Holderness and Skipton in England and Aumale in Normandy." (Carpenter, p.202); married (2) Geoffroi, Lord of Les Forts in Normandy; (3) married in 1195 Baudouin, Lord of Choques or Baldwin de Bethune (d.1212); and (4) married in 1190 William de Forz (d.1195), with whom she had issue, William de Forz, 3rd Earl of Albemarle. "Before his departure on the crusade, William was married to a rich English heiress, Hawise, widow of William de Mandeville, earl of Essex...." (American Philosophy Society, p. 223);
Persona: "...Evidently, William's (William de Forz) bride was a strong-willed woman, for a chronicler describes her as 'a woman who was almost a man, lacking nothing virile except the virile organs.' She showed her strength of will by refusing to marry the man whom the king had chosen for her, and she did not marry until he seized her lands in Yorkshire and sold her livestock...." (American Philosophical Society, p. 223)
Hawise de Blois
Proprietary Title: Countess of Aumale, 1179-1194
Hawise of Chester (1180-1243)
a.k.a. Hawise de Kevelioc
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Bolingbroke and Countess of Lincoln, 1232 (succeeding her brother Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester).
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter and youngest child of Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester and Bertrade de Montfort. Her paternal grandparents were Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, and Maud of Gloucester, granddaughter of Henry I of England. Her maternal grandparents were Simon III de Montfort and Mahaut.
Progeny/Posterity: Married in 1206 Robert de Quincy (d.1217), with whom she had a daughter Margaret de Quincy.
Hedwig von Bentheim (d. c1371)
Proprietary Title: Heiress of Bentheim [71]
Hedwig von Ravensberg
Proprietary Title: Heiress of Lordship of Dale, 1166
Heilwig von Kyburg (d.1260)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Kyburg
HELENE D'ANJOU (1236-1314)
a.k.a. St. Helene (1317)
[Bio1]
Proprietary Title: Ruler of Zeta, Travunia, Plav & Poibarje, 1276-1309
"Dragutin pleaded with her and received her blessing "assigning her a part of his state". This included the regions in the Littoral – from Shkoder to Ulcinj and Dubrovnik and, in the interior, Konavli and the Mountainous Nahija (regional unit), Plav on the Lim River, Gusinje and Brnjaci on the Ibar River. All these became "Lands of the queen mother"." (Tasic)
Helissende du Perche
Proprietary Title: Countess of Perche
Helvig von Ravensberg
Proprietary Title: Countess of Ravensberg
Helvis de Catheu
Proprietary Title: Lady of Catheu
Helvise of Ramleh
Proprietary Title: Lady of Ramleh
Hemma of Gurk
Henrietta Churchill (1681-1733)
Proprietary Title: 2nd Duchess of Marlborough, 1722-1733
HNERIETTE VON KLEVE (1452-1601)
[Bio1]
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Rethel & Duchess of Nevers, 1564-1601.
Properties: "...Franacois de Cleves, duc de Nevers (1516-62), was one of the wealthiest nobles in France. His Duchy of Nevers abutted the extreme southwest corner of Champagne, and he possessed a number of important seineuries within the province as well: the county of Rethel, between Reims and Mezieres in the northeast, and in the vicinity of Troyes, the barony of Ervy-le-Chastel, the viscounty of Saint-Florentin and the marquisat of Isle. This latter title and seingeurie would go to his second son, Jacques, who would become known as baron de Jaucourt, d'Ervy, de Chaource, de Villemaur aet de Maraye and marquis de l'Isle. With the extinction of the male line of the Cleves-Nevers family upon the death of Jacques in 1564, the inheritance passed through the female heir Henriette de Cleves to her husband Louise de Ganzague, who now became duc de Nevers." (Konnert, p. 29)
Henriette de Grandson (d.1322)
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Grandson and la Sarraz
Hennriette of Montbeliard (1387-1444)
a.k.a. Henriette de Montfaucon
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Montbeliard, 1397-1444.
Parents/Pedigree: She was a daughter of Henri of Orbe (d.1396) who predeceased his father, Etienne of Montbeliard, and of Marie of Chatillon, Viscountess of Blaigny.
Patrimony/Properties: "...As the eldest daughter, she carried with her the county, town, and castle of Monbeliard, and the lordships of Bruntrut, Granges, Eslebon, Saulnot, Clerval and Passavant. The fief of La Roche...paid homage to Montbeliard, as did several other small fiefs...." (Higgins, p. 329). Henriette inherited her sister Marguerite's lands when the latter died without heirs; however, her father-in-law, the Count of Wurttemberg, sold them to the Count of Savoy in 1414.... "
HENRIETTE DI SAVOIE (1541-1611)
Proprietary Titles: Marquise of Villars, Countess of Tende
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Honorat II of Savoy, marquis of Villars, count of Trente and baron of Pressigny, and Jeanne of Foix, countess of Castillon.
Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse (1585-1654)
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Roches, Countess of Bouchage, Duchess of Joyeuse, 1608-1647; Princess of Joinville, 1641-1654
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Henri of Joyeuse and Catherine de Nogaret
Progeny/Posterity: Married (1) in 1597, Henri of Bourbon (1573-1608), Duke of Montpensier, with whom she had an only child and sole heiress, Marie of Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, and (2) in 1611 Charles of Lorraine (1571-1640), 4th Duke of Guise, with whom she had 5 sons and 2 daughters.
"...Henriette-Catherine de Joyeuse had been ranked as princesse du sang when married to her first husband, the duc de Montpensier. Her personal favour with the Queen enabled her to retain this rank, exceptionally, as duchesse de Guise, as seen in orders of processions for the funeral of Henri IV and the lit de justice of 1614, at which Mme de Guise occupied a position in the seating arrangements equal to the two pricesses du sang (Conti and Soissons)...." (Spangler, p. 156)
HERMESEND DE BAR-SUR-SEINE
"...Hermesend of Bar-sur-Seine...was the fifth child and only daughter of Elizabeth of Chancenay and Guy, count of Bar-sur-Seine, one of the most powerful barons of southern Champagne... An infant of perhaps one year when her father died, Hermesend was raised by her widowed mother until 1159, than was married to Anself II of Trainel, the thirty-three-year-old butler of Champagne who...was jilted out of his first marriage... [S]he had two children... Hermesend's familial connections made her one of the most prominent women of southern Champagne under count Henry the Liberal and countess Marie." (Evergates, p. 100)
"...'I, Hermesend, lady of Trainel,' proclaimed the divorced countess of Bar-le-Duc, who had returned to the dower lands of her first husband and resumed the title domina of Trainel while her son was dominus of Trainel...." (Evergates, p. 133)
HILDIGARDE D'OISY (d. c1177)
Proprietary Title: Viscountess of Meaux
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Simon d'Oisy (d. 1164), Chatelain of Cambrai, and of Ada de la Ferte-Ancoul
Progeny/Posterity: Married Andre de Montmirail (d. c1180), Lord of Ferte-Gaucher, with whom she had, among others, Andre de Montmirail, who inherited the Chatellanie of Cambrai.
HORTENSE MANCINI (1646-1699)
[Bio1]
Proprietary Titles: Duchess of Mayenne, Mazarin & Rethel, 1661-1669 [74]
Hatshepsut
Proprietary Title: Pharaoh of Egypt
Hawise d'Aumale (1165-1214)
a.k.a. Havoise, Hadwide
[Bio1]
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Aumale and Lady of Holderness, 1179-1194, Lady of Skipton
Properties: Bytham Castle [Brown: 77]. "At the death of her father, she inherits the entire family heritage, and the barinies of Skipton and Copeland from her mother." "...After his (William le Gros) death in 1189 his daughter and heiress, Hawise, eventually brought his lands and lordships to William de Forz... and their descendants; but meanwhile the lady's first husband, William de Mandeville earl of Essex, had granted Bytham to his tenant, William de Coleville, to be held of the Lords of Holderness for the service of 2 1/s knights' fees...." (Brown, p. 77)
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter and heiress of William le Gros (d.1179), Count of Aumale, Earl of Yorkshire and Lord of Holderness, and Cicely Fitz-Duncan (a.k.a. Cecily de Rumigny), Lady of Skipton, daughter and co-heir of William Fitz-Duncan and Alice le Meschin, Lady of Skipton.
Progeny/Posterity: Married (1) in 1180 William de Mandeville (d. 1189), 3rd Earl of Essex, 1166-1189, with whom she had no issue. "...His son, William de Mandeville, was Henry's leading counsellor in later years, and was made mightier still by his marriage to Hawisia, heiress of Holderness and Skipton in England and Aumale in Normandy." (Carpenter, p.202); married (2) Geoffroi, Lord of Les Forts in Normandy; (3) married in 1195 Baudouin, Lord of Choques or Baldwin de Bethune (d.1212); and (4) married in 1190 William de Forz (d.1195), with whom she had issue, William de Forz, 3rd Earl of Albemarle. "Before his departure on the crusade, William was married to a rich English heiress, Hawise, widow of William de Mandeville, earl of Essex...." (American Philosophy Society, p. 223);
Persona: "...Evidently, William's (William de Forz) bride was a strong-willed woman, for a chronicler describes her as 'a woman who was almost a man, lacking nothing virile except the virile organs.' She showed her strength of will by refusing to marry the man whom the king had chosen for her, and she did not marry until he seized her lands in Yorkshire and sold her livestock...." (American Philosophical Society, p. 223)
Hawise de Blois
Proprietary Title: Countess of Aumale, 1179-1194
Hawise of Chester (1180-1243)
a.k.a. Hawise de Kevelioc
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Bolingbroke and Countess of Lincoln, 1232 (succeeding her brother Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester).
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter and youngest child of Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester and Bertrade de Montfort. Her paternal grandparents were Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, and Maud of Gloucester, granddaughter of Henry I of England. Her maternal grandparents were Simon III de Montfort and Mahaut.
Progeny/Posterity: Married in 1206 Robert de Quincy (d.1217), with whom she had a daughter Margaret de Quincy.
Hedwig von Bentheim (d. c1371)
Proprietary Title: Heiress of Bentheim [71]
Hedwig von Ravensberg
Proprietary Title: Heiress of Lordship of Dale, 1166
Heilwig von Kyburg (d.1260)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Kyburg
a.k.a. St. Helene (1317)
[Bio1]
Proprietary Title: Ruler of Zeta, Travunia, Plav & Poibarje, 1276-1309
"Dragutin pleaded with her and received her blessing "assigning her a part of his state". This included the regions in the Littoral – from Shkoder to Ulcinj and Dubrovnik and, in the interior, Konavli and the Mountainous Nahija (regional unit), Plav on the Lim River, Gusinje and Brnjaci on the Ibar River. All these became "Lands of the queen mother"." (Tasic)
Helissende du Perche
Proprietary Title: Countess of Perche
Helvig von Ravensberg
Proprietary Title: Countess of Ravensberg
Helvis de Catheu
Proprietary Title: Lady of Catheu
Helvise of Ramleh
Proprietary Title: Lady of Ramleh
Proprietary Title: 2nd Duchess of Marlborough, 1722-1733
[Bio1]
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Rethel & Duchess of Nevers, 1564-1601.
Properties: "...Franacois de Cleves, duc de Nevers (1516-62), was one of the wealthiest nobles in France. His Duchy of Nevers abutted the extreme southwest corner of Champagne, and he possessed a number of important seineuries within the province as well: the county of Rethel, between Reims and Mezieres in the northeast, and in the vicinity of Troyes, the barony of Ervy-le-Chastel, the viscounty of Saint-Florentin and the marquisat of Isle. This latter title and seingeurie would go to his second son, Jacques, who would become known as baron de Jaucourt, d'Ervy, de Chaource, de Villemaur aet de Maraye and marquis de l'Isle. With the extinction of the male line of the Cleves-Nevers family upon the death of Jacques in 1564, the inheritance passed through the female heir Henriette de Cleves to her husband Louise de Ganzague, who now became duc de Nevers." (Konnert, p. 29)
Henriette de Grandson (d.1322)
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Grandson and la Sarraz
Hennriette of Montbeliard (1387-1444)
a.k.a. Henriette de Montfaucon
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Montbeliard, 1397-1444.
Parents/Pedigree: She was a daughter of Henri of Orbe (d.1396) who predeceased his father, Etienne of Montbeliard, and of Marie of Chatillon, Viscountess of Blaigny.
Patrimony/Properties: "...As the eldest daughter, she carried with her the county, town, and castle of Monbeliard, and the lordships of Bruntrut, Granges, Eslebon, Saulnot, Clerval and Passavant. The fief of La Roche...paid homage to Montbeliard, as did several other small fiefs...." (Higgins, p. 329). Henriette inherited her sister Marguerite's lands when the latter died without heirs; however, her father-in-law, the Count of Wurttemberg, sold them to the Count of Savoy in 1414.... "
Proprietary Titles: Marquise of Villars, Countess of Tende
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Honorat II of Savoy, marquis of Villars, count of Trente and baron of Pressigny, and Jeanne of Foix, countess of Castillon.
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Roches, Countess of Bouchage, Duchess of Joyeuse, 1608-1647; Princess of Joinville, 1641-1654
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Henri of Joyeuse and Catherine de Nogaret
Progeny/Posterity: Married (1) in 1597, Henri of Bourbon (1573-1608), Duke of Montpensier, with whom she had an only child and sole heiress, Marie of Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, and (2) in 1611 Charles of Lorraine (1571-1640), 4th Duke of Guise, with whom she had 5 sons and 2 daughters.
"...Henriette-Catherine de Joyeuse had been ranked as princesse du sang when married to her first husband, the duc de Montpensier. Her personal favour with the Queen enabled her to retain this rank, exceptionally, as duchesse de Guise, as seen in orders of processions for the funeral of Henri IV and the lit de justice of 1614, at which Mme de Guise occupied a position in the seating arrangements equal to the two pricesses du sang (Conti and Soissons)...." (Spangler, p. 156)
HERMESEND DE BAR-SUR-SEINE
"...Hermesend of Bar-sur-Seine...was the fifth child and only daughter of Elizabeth of Chancenay and Guy, count of Bar-sur-Seine, one of the most powerful barons of southern Champagne... An infant of perhaps one year when her father died, Hermesend was raised by her widowed mother until 1159, than was married to Anself II of Trainel, the thirty-three-year-old butler of Champagne who...was jilted out of his first marriage... [S]he had two children... Hermesend's familial connections made her one of the most prominent women of southern Champagne under count Henry the Liberal and countess Marie." (Evergates, p. 100)
"...'I, Hermesend, lady of Trainel,' proclaimed the divorced countess of Bar-le-Duc, who had returned to the dower lands of her first husband and resumed the title domina of Trainel while her son was dominus of Trainel...." (Evergates, p. 133)
HILDIGARDE D'OISY (d. c1177)
Proprietary Title: Viscountess of Meaux
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Simon d'Oisy (d. 1164), Chatelain of Cambrai, and of Ada de la Ferte-Ancoul
Progeny/Posterity: Married Andre de Montmirail (d. c1180), Lord of Ferte-Gaucher, with whom she had, among others, Andre de Montmirail, who inherited the Chatellanie of Cambrai.
[Bio1]
Proprietary Titles: Duchess of Mayenne, Mazarin & Rethel, 1661-1669 [74]
Hortense was born in Rome on June 6 1646 to Hieronyma and Lorenzo Mancini, in 1653 Hortense moved to France with her mother, brother, and two of her sisters, at the invitation of her maternal uncle Cardinal Jules Mazarin, the French Prime Minister. In Paris, Hortense and her sisters were given a convent education and introduced at court. A marriage was arranged for Hortense, who in February 1661, at age fourteen, married Charles-Armand de la Porte, Marquis of Meilleraye. By arrangement with Hortense's uncle, her husband assumed the title Duke of Mazarin and became the principal heir of the Mazarin fortune. The Prime Minister died ten days after the wedding.
Humberge de Limoges
Humberge de Limoges
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