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Impacts of Women In History

Starring Famous Women

Women Of Trade

Rosa de Burford (?-1329):

Rose Romeyn, she was the daughter of Juliana Hautyn and Thomas Romayn, a wealthy London wool and spice merchant and alderman of the City of London. She married her father's business partner, John of Burford. When John died around 1322, Rose assumed full management of the business and also gained a lot of property. She is known to have owned tenements in London and country estates in Surrey, Kent and Sussex. Her own country home was at Cherletone in Kent. She had a son, James, and daughter Katherine.

Women of Science and Medicine

Peretta Peronne (15th Century):

Peretta Peronne was one of Paris's most successful women surgeons. Her success led to her prosecution in 1411 due to the fact that she was assumed to have medical powers. She was denied access to her patients for the duration of the trial, and her medical books were confiscated. Her fate is unknown, but it is likely that she defied the court's order as she had previously.

Women of War

Joan of Arc (-1431):

She was born to a peasant family at Domrémy in north-east France. Joan said she received visions of the Archangel Michael, Saint Margaret and Saint Catherine telling her to support Charles VII and recover France from English arms late in the Hundred Years' War. The uncrowned King Charles VII sent Joan to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief mission. Joan of Arc has been a popular figure in literature, painting, sculpture, and other cultural works since the time of her death, and many famous writers, filmmakers and composers have created works about her.

Women of Politics

Women of Religion

Eleanor of Aquitaine (?-1204):

Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in western Europe during the Late Middle Ages and a member of the Ramnulfid dynasty of rulers in southwestern France. She became Duchess of Aquitaine while she was still a child. Henry and Eleanor eventually became estranged. Henry imprisoned her in 1173 for supporting her son Henry's revolt against her husband, and she was not released until 1189 when Henry died. By the time of her death, she had outlived all her children except for King John and Queen Eleanor of Castile.

Marguerite Porete (?-1310):

Porete's life is recorded only for accounts of heresy of having relationships with God, which she was condemned to be burnt at the stake for. Her life story is probably biased and incomplete. She was said to come from Hainaut in northern France, though this is uncertain. Her high level of education means she is most likely born from upperclassmen. She was associated with the Beguine movement, and was then able to travel freely.

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