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Alys of France: The Princess Kept for Gisors
She was eight years old when they sent her across the Channel with no dowry. For the next twenty six years she would have no husband and no freedom either.
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The Death of Henry II at Chinon and the Release of Eleanor of Aquitaine, 1189
A king died at Chinon, broken by the first name on a list of rebels. When the news reached his wife's gaolers they did not wait for permission. They let her go.
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Matilda, Daughter of Henry II: Sent to Saxony at Eleven
She was eleven years old when they sent her to Saxony to marry a thirty-eight-year-old duke. Her father was Henry II of England. She was just a daughter, nobody asked her.
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Brehon Law: The Rights of Women in Gaelic Ireland
Sometime in the fifth century, in a country that Rome never reached, a woman could divorce her husband for hitting her.