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... husband.71 Cases of multiple dower were not uncommon in England , where a widow had remarried more than once . Elizabeth Talbot ( b . 1518 ) or ' Bess of Hardwick ' survived four husbands and ended life as a countess with an annual ...
... husband.71 Cases of multiple dower were not uncommon in England , where a widow had remarried more than once . Elizabeth Talbot ( b . 1518 ) or ' Bess of Hardwick ' survived four husbands and ended life as a countess with an annual ...
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... husband's name or revert to their maiden name.12 In the case of Alice it can be assumed , as there is no evidence to the contrary , that like some London widows , 13 she reverted to her maiden name after the death of her husbands . The ...
... husband's name or revert to their maiden name.12 In the case of Alice it can be assumed , as there is no evidence to the contrary , that like some London widows , 13 she reverted to her maiden name after the death of her husbands . The ...
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... husband , sometime before 1302,27 Alice would have received her dower . The right to dower , enshrined in Magna Carta , was the entitlement of the widow to the use of one third of the prop- erty of her husband for the rest of her life ...
... husband , sometime before 1302,27 Alice would have received her dower . The right to dower , enshrined in Magna Carta , was the entitlement of the widow to the use of one third of the prop- erty of her husband for the rest of her life ...
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 6 |
some cases from late medieval Lucca | 43 |
She was usually placed with the great men and leaders of | 67 |
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