Posts Tagged ‘Medieval women’
Medieval Women, Hodierna Mother of Alexander Neckham
Another Medieval woman of some count was Hodierna, wet nurse to King Richard I (the Lionheart) or Coeur de Lion and mother of the scientist and theologian Alexander Neckham
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Eleanor of Aquitaine was the most powerful and rich women in northern Europe in the early Medieval period but what were her motivations that turned her from king to king and that made her reject one son in favour of another?
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