Dionisie de Anesty

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The Moth of Anstey Caslte, the castle of Dionisie's father Nicholas of Anesty

Dionisie de Anesty (also Denise de Munchensi ) († uncertain: 1304) was an English noblewoman.

Dionisie was born to Nicholas of Anesty of Anstey Castle in Hertfordshire . She eventually became her father's heir. Her first marriage was the country nobleman Walter Langton , who was believed to be a brother of Archbishop Stephen Langton and Archdeacon Simon Langton . Her husband must have been old when they married, after his death in 1234 she married the nobleman Warin de Munchensi around November 1234 , who already had two children from his first marriage. In 1251 her husband had to answer to Bishop Robert Grosseteste of Lincoln because he was accused, presumably wrongly, of mistreating Dionisie. Munchensi died in 1255. In 1257 Dionisie acquired the right to marry another husband of her choice for 200 marks . In her third marriage she married Robert Butyller , whose identity is unclear and whom she probably survived. In 1281 she received permission from King Edward I to convert her Waterbeach estate in Cambridgeshire into a monastery, but the priory was probably not founded by Franciscan nuns until 1293 .

From her marriage to Warin de Munchensi she had a son, William de Munchensi , who died in 1287. Dionisie became his executor and guardian of his daughter Denise, who married Hugh de Vere, a son of Robert de Vere, 5th Earl of Oxford , but died childless in 1314. Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke , a son of Dionisie's stepdaughter Joan de Munchensi, became the heir to William de Munchensi . He died without any legitimate offspring; his widow Marie de Saint-Pol moved Waterbeach Priory to nearby Denny in 1347 .

Walter of Bibbesworth probably dedicated around 1235 to Dionisie the collection of poems written in Anglo- Norman Le Tretiz , which was intended as a language textbook for her stepchildren and her son and later became widely known.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Houses of minoresses: Abbey of Waterbeach . In: A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely. Volume 2. Salzman, London 1948, p. 292 online
  2. ^ HW Ridgeway: Munchensi, Warin (c.1195–1255). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
  3. ^ Andrew Dalby, The Treatise (Le Tretiz) of Walter of Bibbesworth. Prospect Books, Totnes 2012, ISBN 978-1-903018-86-6 , p. 9
personal data
SURNAME De Anesty, Dionisie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langton, Dionisie; De Munchensi, Denise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobles
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1304