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King's Daughters and Founding Mothers: The Filles du Roi, 1663-1673, Peter J. Gagné, 2 volumes, Quintin, 2000; King's Daughters, The, Joy Reisinger and Elmer Courteau (Sparta, 1988) Alone in an Untamed Land: The Filles du Roi Diary of Hélène St.Onge, Maxine Trottier (fiction) Bride of New France, Suzanne Desrochers (fiction)
Ingegerd Knutsdatter of Denmark also called Ingerta [1] and Ingerd [2] (born between 1080 and 1085 – year of death unknown), was a Danish princess, daughter of King Canute IV of Denmark and Queen Adela. [3] She is regarded as the founding mother of the House of Bjälbo of subsequent Swedish and Norwegian kings (beginning with two great-great ...
Established in New York City, New York in 1886 with a membership of ten founding women who were active with Episcopal, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches in the area, the International Order of The King's Daughters and Sons held its first meeting on January 13 of that year at the New York City home of Margaret McDonald Bottome (1825–1906), a leader in the Methodist church who had become ...
Peter Gagné, author of the 2-volume Kings Daughters and Founding Mothers (listed under "Further Reading") is also the author of Before the King's Daughters: The Filles à Marier, 1634-1662, an excellent work on that group.
André's wife was one of the Filles du Roi, the King's Daughters, sent to Quebec to promote marriage, family formation, birth of children and therefore expansion of population. The date of their marriage is 7 June 1667 in the city of Quebec. We know from her marriage record that her mother was still living in Paris but her father was not.
Maria of Portugal (aged 14/15), eldest daughter of King Afonso IV of Portugal and his first wife Beatrice of Castile, was married to the Alfonso XI of Castile (aged 16/17) in 1328. Agnes Mortimer (aged about 11/12) was married to Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke (aged about 9/10), in 1328 or 1329.
After the founding of the Ashanti Empire, she also obtained a black and silver stool. [8] This seat comes from the previous Queen Mother of Oyoko and is integrated into the hierarchical restructuring carried out by Osei Tutu and Okomfo Anokye. [9] Nyaako was killed during the attack on Kumasi by King Eibirimoro of Aowin in 1717 or 1718. [10]
Daughter of King Malcolm III of Scotland and the Anglo-Saxon princess Margaret of Wessex, Matilda was educated at a convent in southern England, where her aunt Christina was abbess and forced her to wear a veil. [2] In 1093, Matilda was engaged to an English nobleman until her father and her brother Edward were killed in the Battle of Alnwick ...