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Isabel of Conches
Isabel of Conches, (fl. 1090) wife of Ralph of Tosny, rode armed like a knight during a conflict in northern France during the late 11th century.
Orderic Vitalis described Isabel of Conches, daughter of Simon I de Montfort, as brave as "several Amazons and the legendary Camilla, who fought as ally of the Italian king Turnus in the Aeneid."
References.
References Bibliography.
- Johns, Susan M. "Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century Anglo
, a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France, in the Midi-Pyrénées region, where is located the famous abbey
People.
- Raoul IV de Conches born Ralph de Tosny (before 1080 – 1126), a Norman nobleman
- Isabel of Conches, wife of Ralph of Tosny
- William of Conches (c. 1090 – after 1154), French scholastic philosopher who sought to expand the bounds of Christian humanism by studying secular works of the classics and fostering empirical science
- Peter of Courtenay,