I’ve started posting a new series on medieval Occitan female lords on France’s Splendid Centuries. Here’s my first one on Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou. She wasn’t originally Occitan, coming from Anjou in the north, but she married with a series of Occitan lords and was regent for a couple of sons in the south. She was also (briefly) Queen of Aquitaine and played a part in the death throes of the Carolingian dynasty (the descendants of Charlemagne). She was the mother of Queen Constance of France, wife to Robert II, who was another very interesting medieval woman.