Aénor (also ''Aenora'', ''Ainora''; the spelling ''Aénor'' suggests an original trisyllabic pronunciation) was a feminine given name in
medieval France
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It is likely the origin of, and by the later Middle Ages was replaced by, the name
Eleanor
Eleanor () is a feminine given name, originally from an Old French adaptation of the Old Provençal name ''Aliénor''. It is the name of a number of women of royalty and nobility in western Europe during the High Middle Ages.
The name was intro ...
(''Alienor'').
It arose as a latinization of an earlier
Germanic name
Germanic given names are traditionally dithematic; that is, they are formed from two elements, by joining a prefix and a suffix. For example, King Æþelred's name was derived from ', for "noble", and ', for "counsel".
However, there are als ...
, via the form ''Adenordis'' (''Aanordis'', ''Anordis'', ''Anor'').
Use of the name seems to be mostly confined to the 12th century; before that, it would have retained its original form (''Anordis'' or similar), and after 1200 it had been mostly ousted by its replacement ''Eleanor''.
The form ''Adenordis'' is recorded in the 1090s.
It may itself be a corruption of ''Adamardis'',
[''Archives historiques de la Saintonge et de l'Aunis'', vol. 33 (1903), p. 29]
/ref> apparently a feminine form of ''Ademar
Ademar is a masculine Germanic name, ultimately derived from ''Audamar'', as is the German form Otmar. It was in use in medieval France, Latinized as ''Adamarus'', and in modern times has been popular in French, Spanish and Portuguese-speaking co ...
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List
People with the name include:
* Adenordis, a sister of Hugo of Chaumont (fl.
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1090s)
* Ainora (1102–1147) daughter of Stephen, Count of Blois and Adela of Normandy, also known as Eleanor of Champagne, the first wife of Ralph I, Count of Vermandois who was displaced by Eleanor of Aquitaine's sister Petronilla of Aquitaine, leading to a two years' war (1142–44) in Champagne.
* Aenor de Châtellerault (c. 1103–1130), also Adenordis, Adamardis,Eleanor of Aquitaine
Eleanor ( – 1 April 1204; french: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, ) was Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, List of English royal consorts, Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of Henry II of England, King Henry I ...
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* Aenora (Eleonore) de Vermandois (b. c. 1151, d. between 1204 and 1214), a daughter of Raoul de Vermandois.
* Aenora de Maubanc, also known as Eleanor Malbank, born c. 1172 in Norman England (Cheshire)
* Aénor de Saint-Valery (1192–1250), wife of Robert III of Dreux.[Nicolas Filleau de la Chaise, ''Histoire de Saint Louis'', Coignard, 1688]
p. 182
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See also
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References
External links
"Aenor" at behindthename.com
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French feminine given names