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Noble women, the Glossary

Noble women form a disparate group, which has evolved over time, the noble women having the main point in common of being linked to the nobility by a man: the father or the husband.^[1]

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Abbess

An abbess (Latin: abbatissa) is the female superior of a community of nuns in an abbey.

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Abbey

An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess.

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Alexander von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.

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The ancien régime was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France that the French Revolution overturned through its abolition in 1790 of the feudal system of the French nobility and in 1792 through its execution of the king and declaration of a republic.

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Balthild of Chelles

Balthild (c. 626 – 30 January 680) (Bealdhild, 'bold sword' or 'bold spear), also spelled Bathilda, Bauthieult or Baudour, was queen consort of Neustria and Burgundy by marriage to Clovis II, the King of Neustria and Burgundy (639–658), and regent during the minority of her son, Chlothar III.

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Bibliothèque nationale de France

The ('National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as Richelieu and François-Mitterrand.

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Book of hours

Books of hours (horae) are Christian prayer books, which were used to pray the canonical hours.

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Canoness

A canoness is a member of a religious community of vowed women, historically a stable community dedicated to the celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours in a particular church.

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Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan or Pisan (born Cristina da Pizzano; September 1364 –), was an Italian-born French poet and court writer for King Charles VI of France and several French dukes.

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Clergy

Clergy are formal leaders within established religions.

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Clovis II

Clovis II (633 – 657) was King of the Franks in Neustria and Burgundy, having succeeded his father Dagobert I in 639.

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Disibodenberg

Disibodenberg is a monastery ruin near Staudernheim in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Doctor of the Church

Doctor of the Church (Latin: doctor "teacher"), also referred to as Doctor of the Universal Church (Latin: Doctor Ecclesiae Universalis), is a title given by the Catholic Church to saints recognized as having made a significant contribution to theology or doctrine through their research, study, or writing.

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Dower

Dower is a provision accorded traditionally by a husband or his family, to a wife for her support should she become widowed.

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Editis

Editis is a French group of publishing companies, subsidiary of Czech Media Invest.

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Ennoblement

Ennoblement is the conferring of nobility—the induction of an individual into the noble class.

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Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne

Ermengarde (Occitan: Ermengarda, Ainermada, or Ainemarda) (b. 1127 or 1129 – d. Perpignan, 14 October 1197), was a viscountess of Narbonne from 1134 to 1192.

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Estates of Brittany

The Estates of Brittany was the States Provincial for the province of Brittany.

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Female order of the Band

The Female order of the Band is a female honorific order founded in 1387, bestowed upon the women of Palencia, in Castile and León (Crown of Castile, current Spain).

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Fontevraud Abbey

The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud or Fontevrault (in French: abbaye de Fontevraud) was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near Chinon, in the former French Duchy of Anjou.

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Hagiography

A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions.

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Hersende of Champagne

Hersende of Champagné (1060 – 1 December 1114) was the founder and first Abbess of Fontevraud Abbey.

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Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen (Hildegard von Bingen,; Hildegardis Bingensis; 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages.

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Imperial, royal and noble ranks

Traditional rank amongst European imperiality, royalty, peers, and nobility is rooted in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Jane Frances de Chantal

Jane Frances de Chantal, VHM (born Jeanne-Françoise Frémyot, Baroness of Chantal; 28 January 1572 – 13 December 1641) was a French Catholic noble widow and nun who was beatified in 1751 and canonized in 1767.

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Marie-Elisabeth von Humboldt

Marie-Elisabeth von Humboldt was born on December 8, 1741 in Berlin and died on November 19, 1796 at Tegel Castle.

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Narbonne

Narbonne (Narbona; Narbo; Late Latin:Narbona) is a commune in Southern France in the Occitanie region.

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Nobility

Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy.

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Occitania

Occitania (Occitània,, or, Occitanie) is the historical region in Southern Europe where the Occitan language was historically spoken and where it is sometimes used as a second language.

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Order of the Ermine (France)

The Order of the Ermine (L'Ordre de l'Hermine) was a chivalric order of the 14th and 15th centuries in the Duchy of Brittany.

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Order of the Hatchet

The Order of the Hatchet (Orde de l'Atxa; Orden del Hacha) is a female honorific order supposedly founded in 1149, bestowed upon the women of the town of Tortosa, in Catalonia (Spain).

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Order of the Ladies of the Cord

The Order of the Ladies of the Cord (French: L'Ordre des Dames chevalières de la Cordelière or Ordre de la Cordelière), was a ladies order founded by the French queen Anne of Brittany in 1498.

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Order of the Starry Cross

The Order of the Starry Cross (also known as Order of the Star Cross or Star Cross Order; German: Sternkreuz-Orden) is an imperial Austrian dynastic order for Catholic noble ladies, founded in 1668.

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Robert of Arbrissel

Robert of Arbrissel (1045 – 1116) was an itinerant preacher, and founder of Fontevraud Abbey.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_women

Also known as Noble woman, Noblewoman, Noblewomen.

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