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Constance ( Polish: Konstancja; died 1351) was a Polish princess from the House of Piast and sovereign Duchess of Wodzisław Śląski from 1324 until her death.
When Constance Duchess of Brittany was born on 12 June 1161, in Guingamp, Brittany, France, her father, Conan IV Duke of Brittany, was 27 and her mother, Margaret of Huntingdon, was 16. She married Geoffrey of England, Duke of Brittany in July 1181, in France.
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Constance is a character in the play King John by William Shakespeare, in which she has several very eloquent speeches on grief and death. On screen, she has been portrayed by Julia Neilson in the silent short King John (1899), which recreates John's death scene at the end of the play, Sonia Dresdel in the BBC Sunday Night Theatre version (1952 ...
Mar 10, 2023 · Judith Everard and Michael Jones, The Charters of Duchess Constance of Brittany and Her Family, 1171-1221, Boydell, 1999.
Constance in Shakespeare. Appears in: King John. Within King John, Constance is portrayed as a strong, independent woman to the point where she even seems to scare her own son at times. She has formed an alliance with Philip II of France against John in order to press Arthur's claim to the throne.
Constance (Breton: Konstanza; 1161 - c. 5 September 1201) was Duchess of Brittany from 1166 to her death in 1201[1] and Countess of Richmond from 1171 to 1201.[a] Constance was the daughter of Duke Conan IV by his wife, Margaret of Huntingdon, a sister of the Scottish kings Malcolm IV and William I.
Constance of Normandy (between 1057 and 1061 – 13 August 1090) was a Duchess of Brittany. She was one of the nine children of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders. She was born in Normandy, where her father was duke.
