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Agnes, Countess of Aix-en-Berry (fl. 1080–1120) was a medieval healer and the first prioress of the Orsan Priory. Agnes was the first wife of Alard de Guillebaud, lord of Châteaumeillant; when the marriage was dissolved by reason of consanguinity, Agnes retired to Fontevraud Abbey. In 1107, Alard donated lands for the foundation of a ...
Agnes of Ponthieu (c. 1080 – aft. 1105) was ruling Countess of Ponthieu from 1100. She was the daughter of Count Guy I of Ponthieu and Adela. [1] Enguerrand, her brother, died at a youthful age. Her father, Guy, then made her uncle Hugh heir presumptive, but he also died before Guy (died 1100).
Agnes (before 1260 – after 1279) was a natural daughter of Bohemian king Ottokar II with his mistress Agnes of Kuenring.. She married Bohemian nobleman Bavor II of Strakonice.
Agnes (Aragonese: Agnés) was a Queen of Aragon, the second wife of Ramiro I of Aragon. She is speculated to have been daughter of either William VI, Duke of Aquitaine or William VII, Duke of Aquitaine, and perhaps remarried to Peter I, Count of Savoy. Following the death of his wife Ermesinda of Bigorre, Ramiro I of Aragon next appears with a ...
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On 13 January 1338,when Patrick Dunbar was away, the English laid siege to Dunbar Castle, where the Countess was in residence with her servants and guards. However, she was determined not to surrender the fortress and is said to have declared: During the Middle Ages, it was the norm for a wife to take charge of a castle and manor business in her hu...
Some accounts describe her as Countess of Moray, on the assumption that she inherited the earldom when her brother John was killed at the Battle of Neville's Cross in 1346. However, the earldom actually reverted to the crown. But in 1371/2, Agnes' nephew, John Dunbar, was created Earl of Moray by Robert II, his father-in-law.Agnes's family was acti...
Chicago, Judy. (2007). The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation. London: Merrell. ISBN 1-85894-370-1.Vian, Alsager Richard (1888). "Dunbar, Agnes". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 150-151. This article incorporates text from this s...Douglas and Wood's Peerage of Scotland, ii. 169, 170;Boece and Stewart's Buik of the Croniclis of Scotland (Rolls Ser.), ed. Turnbull, iii. 341;
