Berthe Arnold
Berthe Arnold, also known as Berthe Arnold Knorr (June 14, 1896 – December 30, 1968) was a suffragist and a National Woman's Party organizer from Colorado Springs, Colorado. She participated in protests for women's right to vote, during which she was attacked by mobs and arrested, until the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Early life Berthe Louise Arnold, the daughter of Louisa Calhoun and Clarence Arnold, was born June 14, 1896, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her father was a physician. She had a sister Evelyn born about 1900. Her maternal grandfather was John R. Calhoun of Philadelphia. Her paternal grandfather was William W. Arnold (ornithologist), Dr. W. W. Arnold, the pioneer physician of Colorado Springs. She graduated from Colorado Springs High School in 1917 and went to Washington, D.C. that year or the following year to protest for women's right to vote. She studied elementary education and voice at Colorado College in 1914 and by M ...
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Saint Bertha or Saint Aldeberge (c. 565 – d. in or after 601) was the queen of Kingdom of Kent, Kent whose influence led to the Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England. She was canonization, canonized as a saint for her role in its establishment during that period of England, English history. Life Bertha was a Frankish princess, the daughter of Charibert I and his wife Ingoberga, granddaughter of the reigning King Chlothar I and great-granddaughter of Clovis I and Saint Clotilde. Her father died in 567, her mother in 589. Bertha had been raised near Tours.Taylor, Martin. ''The Cradle of English Christianity''
Her marriage to the Anglo-Saxon paganism, pagan Æthelberht of Kent, in 580 AD, was on condition that she be allowed to practice her religion.
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