Can you give me a name of any real life medieval maiden?

Question

By real I mean someone who actually existed at one time or other. And thank you VERY much to all those who answered my first question, unfortunately, this is VERY URGENT too!

Answer 1

Alice Perrers aka Alice de Windsor (1348-1400)
Jane Shore (1445-1527)
Katherine Swynford aka Katherine de Roet (1350-1403)

Answer 2

There are very few surviving early Mediaeval Frisian given names. Surviving texts in Old Frisian date only from the second half of the 13th century.

Try these sources:

1] Robinson, Orrin W, Old English and Its Closest Relatives (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992); p. 181. Scattered words and phrases appear in earlier texts. [2] Stark, Franz, Die Kosenamen der Germanen (Wiesbaden: Dr. Martin Sändig oHG., 1967 [1868]); pp. 8, 181.

[3] Robinson, p. 103 (map).

[4] Tiefenbach, Heinrich, Schreibsprachliche und gentile Prägung von Personennamen im Werdener Urbar A, in Nomen et Gens, Dieter Geuenich, Wolfgang Haubrichs, & Jörg Jarnut, eds. (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1997).

[5] The name Egildag may show Old Saxon influence; Egildeg would be more in keeping with the Frisian dialect. The Frisian form Tiad- could be substituted for Thiad- in any of the names beginning with that element (Tiefenbach, 273). I don't know whether the Frisians also used Thiad-.

[6] Schwarz, Ernst, Deutsche Namenforschung. I: Ruf- und Familiennamen (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1949): p. 63f.

[7] Tiefenbach, pp. 271, 272. Notheri, Frithunath, and Edulf are inferred from place-names; Raeddeg is inferred from a Latin genitive case Raeddegi.

[8] Robinson, p. 179.

Answer 3

Marie de France, A Breton poetess
Christine De Pisan, wrote The Teasure of the City of Ladies.

Answer 4

Eleanor of Aquitaine before she married King Henry.