Isabel of Conches
Isabel of Conches, (fl. 1090)[1] wife of Ralph of Tosny, rode armed like a knight during a conflict in northern France during the late 11th century [2] and was born in Montfort sur Risle, Eure, Normandy, in 1057.
Family
She was the daughter of Simon I de Montfort.[3] Isabel married Raoul II of Tosny, they had:
- Roger, died young.[4]
- Raoul IV de Conches,[4] married Alice of Huntingdon, daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, and Judith of Lens.
- Godehilde married Baldwin I of Jerusalem[5]
References
- Pennington, Reina (2003). Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 541. ISBN 0-313-29197-7.
- Edgington, Susan, and Sarah Lambert, Gendering the Crusades, Columbia University Press, 2002, p. 53- 54. ISBN 978-0-231-12598-7
- Châtelain 1983, p. 86.
- Mason 1979, p. 125.
- Murray 2000, p. 31.
Bibliography
- Johns, Susan M. Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm. Manchester University Press, 2003, p. 14.
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