The Lady as Lord: The Exercise of Lordship by the Wives, Widows, and Heiresses of Territorial Lords of All Ranks and the Problems It Presented, ca. 1070-ca. 1500
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Seigneurie: The International Society for the Study of the Nobility, Lordship, and Knighthood
Organizer Name
D'Arcy Jonathan D. Boulton
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Notre Dame/Univ. of Toronto
Presider Name
D'Arcy Jonathan D. Boulton
Paper Title 1
Formal and Informal Expressions of Power in Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-Century Flanders: The Public Roles of Mathilda of Portugal, Wife of Philip of Alsace, Count of Flanders (1183-1218)
Presenter 1 Name
Els de Paermentier
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. Gent
Paper Title 2
Isabella of Lennox after the 1425 Executions: Successes and Failures of Female Power in Late Medieval Scotland
Presenter 2 Name
Shayna Devlin
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Guelph
Paper Title 3
The Lady as Lord in the Fifteenth-Century Duchy of Bourbon
Presenter 3 Name
Maureen B. M. Boulton
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Notre Dame/Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Start Date
11-5-2019 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 2345
Description
This session examines the experiences of four women — one countesses and three duchesses — who acquired and successfully exercised high lordly powers in three countries and three centuries: Flanders in the twelfth and early thirteenth century, and Scotland and France in the fifteenth. Their quite different experiences cast considerable light on the range of problems ladies confronted in their capacity as territorial lords, and how they could be dealt with. D'Arcy Jonathan D. Boulton
The Lady as Lord: The Exercise of Lordship by the Wives, Widows, and Heiresses of Territorial Lords of All Ranks and the Problems It Presented, ca. 1070-ca. 1500
Schneider 2345
This session examines the experiences of four women — one countesses and three duchesses — who acquired and successfully exercised high lordly powers in three countries and three centuries: Flanders in the twelfth and early thirteenth century, and Scotland and France in the fifteenth. Their quite different experiences cast considerable light on the range of problems ladies confronted in their capacity as territorial lords, and how they could be dealt with. D'Arcy Jonathan D. Boulton