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A woman with the rank of a marquess or the wife (or widow) of a marquess is a marchioness (/ m ɑː (r) ˈ ʃ ə n ɛ s / [3]) or marquise (French: ⓘ). These titles are also used to translate equivalent Asian styles, as in Imperial China and Imperial Japan. A portrait of William Kerr, 4th Marquess of Lothian, wearing his British Army uniform.
Includes French women who have held the rank of marchioness or "marquise". ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
Françoise-Athénaïs as a child, by unknow painter. Portrait of Françoise-Athénaïs, c. 1660, when Mademoiselle de Tonnay-Charente. Françoise-Athénaïs was born in October 1640 [2] [page needed] and was baptised on 5 October 1640 at the Château of Lussac-les-Châteaux, [3] [page needed] today's Vienne department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in France. [4]
A marchioness (marquise) is a noblewoman with the rank of marquess (marquis), or the wife of a marquess. Marchioness may also refer to: Marchioness, a brigantine which sailed between Nelson, New Zealand and Melbourne, Australia in the 1850s; Marchioness disaster, the 1989 disaster that struck The Marchioness, a pleasure boat on the River Thames
Gabrielle d'Estrées, Duchess of Beaufort and Verneuil, Marchioness of Monceaux [1] (French: [ɡabʁijɛl dɛstʁe]; 1573 [2] [3] – 10 April 1599) was a mistress, confidante and adviser of Henry IV of France. She is noted for her role in ending the religious civil wars that plagued France for more than 30 years.
Marquess or Marchioness. A coronet of four strawberry leaves and four silver balls (known as "pearls", but not actually pearls), slightly raised on points above the rim, of which three leaves and two balls are seen. Earl or Countess. A coronet of eight strawberry leaves (four visible) and eight "pearls" raised on stalks, of which five are visible.
Marchionesses of Saluzzo (4 P) Pages in category "Marchionesses" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
In medieval Europe, a march or mark was, in broad terms, any kind of borderland, [1] as opposed to a state's "heartland". More specifically, a march was a border between realms or a neutral buffer zone under joint control of two states in which different laws might apply.