Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 6676
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Caille , Jacqueline.
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  • Title: Ermengarde, Vicomtesse de Narbonne (1127/29-1196/97): Une grande figure feminine du Midi aristocratique [focuses on Ermengarde's youth and old age when, despite long years of skillful rulership, she was forced out of power by her nephew, Pierre de Lara].
  • Source: La Femme dans l' histoire et la société méridionales (IXe-XIXe S.): Actes du 66e congrés..  Fédération historique du Languedoc méditerranéen et du Roussillon, 1995.  Pages 9 - 50.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Edition of Text;Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne Narbonne, Aude, France Noble Women Politics Rulers Women in Active Roles
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 12
  • Primary Evidence: Will; Barcelona, Archives de la Couronne d' Aragon, Fonds du Grand Prieuré de Catalogne de l' Ordre de l' Hôpital, Armoire 28, parchment 66. Transcription and French translation of Ermengarde's will. Barcelona, Archives de la Couronne d' Aragon parchment 673 fr
  • Illustrations: Copy of Ermengarde's will from the municipal archives of Narbonne.
  • Table: Two genealogical charts. The vicounts of Narbonne in the tenth through the end of the fifteenth century, and the genealogy of Bernard d' Anduze (died around 1153), only husband of Ermengarde, vicountess of Narbonne.
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  • Author's Affiliation: Université Paul Valêry, Montpellier
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  • Year of Publication: 1995.
  • Language: French
  • ISSN/ISBN: 2900041198