Bianca Carrega, Baroness Keudelstein.
Blanche Carrega
Baroness von Keudelsheim
the Beautiful Madame L.(by Maubreuil):
the White Queen: "
Bianca di Navarra or Bianca I of Navarra or Bianca di Evreux was queen reigning in Navarre from 1425 to 1441; previously, after marriage, she was for seven years also queen consort of Sicily from 1402 to 1409 and regent; widowed, he married the future king of Aragon, Valencia, Sardinia, Corsica, Majorca and Sicily, count of Barcelona from 1458 to 1479, John II. From the Sicilian historiographers it is simply called the White Queen." (Histouring)
the Fair Prince: "Hetoum I, King of Armenia, came to this most powerful lord; he came into his land before Hulegu set out, and became his man. He strongly suggested and counselled him to commit himself to come with a great host, as you shall hear, and the good king of Armenia did this and arranged it because of the evil of the Saracens and by the good offices of Prince Bohemond VI of Antioch, who was called the Fair Prince and was very much in favour with this great lord Hulegu, for the prince was the son-in-law of the king of Armenia." (Crawford: 34)
the Valiant: "Boleslaw I Chrobry . . . [whose] presently used form of the epithet, understood as meaning 'valiant,' is in fact of later origin. . . ." (Gallus: 30)
the Wry-mouth, Wry-mouthed (Pol. Krzywousty; Sp. el Bocatorcida):
--"Boleslas III (1102-1139) was surnamed Krzywousty, or the wry-mouthed, his mouth being slightly twisted on account of a wound. . . He was a redoubtable warrior, and conquered and converted to Christianity, with the aid of St. Otho, the Pomeranians from the Oder to the Vistula. . . ." (Morfill: 34)
--" . . . Despite a formal reconciliation, Boleslaw III had Zbigniew blinded and killed in 1111. Boleslaw's nickname, 'Wrymouth', may well refer to the ease with which he broke his oaths rather than to any physical deformity. . . ." (Lukowski & Zawadzki: 8)
the Wasteful (Pol. Rozrzutny): "Bolesław's sumptuous lifestyle and constant travel . . . put him in a difficult financial situation. He continually increased taxes in his Duchy . . . Although his coffers were now reduced, Bolesław didn't give up to his lavish lifestyle. He attended the marriage of King Casimir III the Great and Adelaide of Hesse in Poznań in 1341, and the coronation of Charles IV of Luxemburg, King of Bohemia, Bolesław had to sell the town of Grodków to the Bishop of Wrocław, Preczlaw von Pogarell . . . in 1344."
the Chaste: " . . . It is reported that he made a vow of perpetual continence, and imposed the same oath on his wife, whence he acquired the epithet of the Chaste. . . ." (Ross: 114)
the Small (Pol. Maly): "Like his grandfather, King Elbow-high, Bolko II was of small stature; his nickname, "the Small" (Mały), reflects this and was used in contemporary sources."
Boniface VIII (Pope).
the Black Beast (by Dante): Pope Boniface VIII, called by Dante in his Divine Comedy, the Black Beast and the Prince of the New Pharisees, "who made war not on Saracens or Jews but on Christians at Rome. . . ." (Lansing and Barolini: 123)
the Absalom of the Age: "[Boniface] . . . was beatified by Pope Gregory XVI. in 1838 under the name of the Blessed Boniface. His festival is on the 13th of March. He was styled, when young, the Absalom of the age, on account of his personal beauty, but he early sought refuge from the seductions of the world in the Grande Chartreuse, where he took the habit of St. Bruno. He was subsequently called forth from his cell and appointed archbishop of Canterbury and primate of England. Pope Innocent IV. consecrated him at Lyons. He was noted for his charity, and was at once an able theologian and jurisconsult. He defended the rights of the church against Henry III. with energy, and showed equal zeal in supporting the royal authority amid the disaffections of the times, thereby inspiring so much confidence in the king that he appointed him regent when he went to France in 1259. Having gone to Savoy in 1270 to visit his brother, Count Philip, Archbishop Boniface fell ill and died, after an episcopate of twenty-five years, at the castle of St. Helene, in the valley of the Isere, and was buried at Hautecombe. The statue on his tomb represents him with a serpent at his feet, emblem of prudence, and a bas-relief depicts him defending the rights of the church before Henry III." (Paulist Fathers: 768)
--"Boniface was known, after his consecration, as the handsome archbishop. He was one of a family, distinguished for its beauty. His sister Beatrice, is described by Matthew Paris, as remarkable for her personal charms. . . ." (Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, Vol. 3: 230)
--"The 'Handsome Archbishop from Savoy was, in sum, neither a theologian nor a saint, but he was one of the best administrators ever to rule the medieval see of canterbury and a forceful leader of the English chuch after the death of Robert Grosseteste in 1253. Accused of corruption by his enemies, Boniface proved in the end to have been a far more effective champion of ecclesiastical reform than his predecessor, St. Edmund Rich, had been. . . ." (The Eagles of Savoy: 388)
Bonne de Pons, Marquise d'Heudicourt.
Bonne d'Heudicourt
Bonne de Pons d'Heudicourt
la Grande Louve
Mademoiselle de Pons
Madame d'Heudicourt.
la Grande Louve
Mademoiselle de Pons
Madame d'Heudicourt.
the Baptizer: " . . . In 864 he converted his court to Christianity and made the Christian religion official in the whole of his kingdom, manoeuvering between the contradictory interests of Rome and Constantinople during the entire period of his reign and achieving various advantages for his country. . . ." (Wonderland Bulgaria)
the First Saint of the Bulgarian Church: "After he died, Boris I became the first saint of the Bulgarian Church - the church he himself created."(Wonderland Bulgaria)
the Saint: Boris I of Bulgaria. "After he died, Boris I became the first saint of the Bulgarian Church - the church he himself created."(Wonderland Bulgaria)
the Terror of Jealous Husbands as well as of Watchful Mothers.
the Glorious Duke: "The Croatian Prince Branimir made further steps in strengthening the relations with Rome. During the solemn divine service in St. Peter's church in Rome in 879, Pope John VIII gave his blessing to the prince and the whole Croatian people, about which he informed Branimir in his letters. In his letter dated from 881 the Pope addressed Branimir as the `glorious prince'. This was the first time that the Croatian state was officially recognized (at that time the international legitimacy was given by the Pope). In Branimir's time Venetians had to pay taxes to the Croatian state for their ships traveling along the Croatian coast." (Zubrinik)
the Achilles of Bohemia, the Bohemian Achilles: " . . . Quarrels among the successors of Boleslav gave occasion to the Hungarian King Stephen materially to extend his frontier; but only in 1028 (when Bretislav, 'the young Achilles of Bohemia,' halted in his career of conquest to weep over the desolation of the once famous Velehrad) was it definitely settled that Bohemia should retain Moravia Proper. . . ." (Sebright and Irby: 35)
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