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From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <>
Subject: Re: A line from the present back to775
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 23:37:00 +0100
References: <F178EMzAUor03u9PH3I00006187@hotmail.com>, <000f01c1037c$53e48dc0$da490404@hppav>


In message <000f01c1037c$53e48dc0$>
(Ford Mommaerts-Meulemans-Browne) wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "A Tsar Is Born" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, 02 July, 2001 08:45 PM
> Subject: Re: A line from the present back to775
>
>
> >
> > "Stephen Higginson" <> wrote in message
> > news:...
> > > 21 Constance (Princess) 1374-1416 + Edmund De Holand 1382/83 -140
> > >
> > > 22 Edmund of Langley, Prince of England 1341-1402 + Isabel 1355-1392
> >
> > Constance was not a princess. She was a Duke's daughter, hence Lady
> > Constance Plantagenet (though I'm not sure the surname was in use yet).
>
>
> The daughter of a Duke who is the son of a king is still a princess.
>

They may well be "princesses" these days but in medieval times I am no
so sure; I have not seen any evidence to say that they were called
"princess" and I have seen some to say they were calle either "Lady" or
something like "Constance of England". The latter perhaps was only used
for daughters of kings.

Now who's got some Real Manuscripts!

--
Tim Powys-Lybbe
For a patchwork of bygones: http://powys.org


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