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Staircase in the Brinvilliers home. The Marquise was born in 1630 to the relatively wealthy and influential household of d'Aubray. [1] Her father, Antoine Dreux d'Aubray (1600–1666), held multiple important governmental and high-ranking positions such as the Seigneur of Offémont and Villiers, councillor of State, Master of Requests, the Civil Lieutenant and prévôt of the city of Paris ...
A noblewoman is a female member of the nobility. Noblewomen form a disparate group, which has evolved over time. Ennoblement of women has traditionally been a rare occurrence; the majority of noblewomen were linked to the nobility by either their father or their husband. However, women of the nobility assumed political functions, participated ...
Section two reviews the case of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, a noblewoman accused of murder and sadistic practices. It also recounts the case of a woman known to Seabrook who felt an urge to drink blood due to pernicious anaemia, and a couple of incidents from Africa that showed a belief in humans turning into animals. He also recounts an ...
Reginald de Braose (died between 5 May 1227 and 9 June 1228), married, firstly, Grace, daughter of William Briwere, and, secondly, in 1215, Gwladus Ddu, daughter of Welsh Prince Llewelyn the Great. He had issue by his first wife, including William de Braose, who married Eva Marshal. [1] Giles de Braose, Bishop of Hereford (died 13 November 1215 ...
She was a concubine of Emperor Go-Fukakusa from 1271 to 1283, and later became a Buddhist nun. [1] After years of travelling, around 1304–07 she wrote a memoir, Towazugatari ("An Unasked-For Tale", commonly translated into English as The Confessions of Lady Nijō ), the work for which she is known today, and which is also the only substantial ...
Elizabeth FitzGerald, Countess of Lincoln (1527 – March 1590), also known as "The Fair Geraldine", was an Irish noblewoman and a member of the celebrated FitzGerald dynasty. She became the second wife of Sir Anthony Browne and later the third wife of English admiral Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln .
The Black Raven — A noblewoman of the false king's clan with dweomer talent has cursed Prince Maryn. Her daughter rebels and becomes Nevyn's apprentice. In the present, the daughter has been reincarnated as Jahdo's older sister, while the noblewoman herself is reincarnated as the dweomer-talented priestess of the false goddess.
Nodjmet may have been a daughter of the last ramesside pharaoh, Ramesses XI, and likely even Piankh's wife, if the latter really was Herihor's predecessor as supported by Karl Jansen-Winkeln. [1] Early in her life, she held titles such as Lady of the House and Chief of the Harem of Amun .