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Claricia
Flourished 12th century, Bavaria, GermanyClaricia, a nun living in a Bavarian convent, was a manuscript illuminator. We know of her from a signature and what may be a self-portrait in a twelve-century German psalter... Read more
Diemud
Flourished circa 1057–1130, Bavaria, GermanyDiemud, a nun at the Wessobrunn monastery in Bavaria, was a scribe and illustrator. Her illuminated manuscripts were famous in her lifetime, fetched high prices on the open market, and... Read more
Charitas Pirckheimer
b. circa 1466, Eichstätt, Bavaria; d. 1532, probably Nuremberg, GermanyAt the age of twelve, Barbara Pirckheimer entered the Klarakloster, a convent of Poor Clares at Nuremberg, Germany, where her father served as legal advisor to the city council. She... Read more
Theodelinda
b. circa 570, Bavaria; d. 628, exact location uncertainTheodelinda became queen in 588 when she married King Authari of the Lombards, a Germanic people who founded a kingdom in northern Italy. When he died two years later, she... Read more
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