Dowager

Term of old right (conventional or usual) designating a widow of an aristocratic medium enjoying on the one hand goods its late husband which constitute its Douaire.

The fate of the dowager is to be distinguished from that of a prince prerogative who has for its part a Apanage created to provide for his needs. This douaire is distinguished from the Dot which is made up with the profit of the wife at the time of her Mariage.

If the late husband reigned or carried a title, one will speak about Impératrice dowager, of Reine dowager, Duchesse dowager… A queen dowager is called queen mother when it is the case. The term does not have whereas little relationship with possible a douaire and constitutes a useful precision when two women carry the same title.

History

Chronological list of some empresses dowagers

China :
  • Cixi became empress dowager of China in 1861, date on which his/her son goes up on the throne, which gives him preeminence on all the others wife S and Concubine S left by the preceding monarch and justifies this title that the historians give him.
Russia :

Chronological list of some queens dowagers

Chronological list of some princesses dowagers

Chronological list of some duchesses dowagers

Chronological list of some countesses dowagers

Disputed without success, in 1119, the designation of Charles Ier of Flanders as count de Flandre.
  • Bérangère de Navarre, countess dowager of Maine, widow of Richard Lion-hearted
Yielded, after 1199, some of its rights (of which those on Castle-of-Dormouse) in Guillaume of the Rocks, Sénéchal. Disputed without success with others, in 1606, the heritage of Claude of Trémoïlle.
  • Marie Therese de Broglie, countess dowager of Lameth
Was godmother, in 1768, of the bell of the church of Bresle (village of the Somme).

Literature

The term of " dowager " appears, inter alia, at:
  • Malherbe, which uses it in the title of a poem:
" has Madam the princess dowager , Charlotte of Trémouille "
  • the Fountain, which uses it in the title of one of its poetic parts:
" For Nice, Dog of S.A.R Madam the Duchess Dowager of Orleans ". the word douairière is employed 2 times in " 3 low masses ".

See too

Internal bonds

dowager

External bonds

  • History

    • Master's paper of Medieval History, by Karine GIRARD

  • Literature

    • Text of MALHERBE
    • Text of the FOUNTAIN
    • Text of DAUDET

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