Constance may refer to:

Places

Constance, Kentucky Constance is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community in Boone County, Kentucky, Boone County, Kentucky, United States. Constance is located on the Ohio River and Kentucky Route 8, north of Florence, Kentucky, Florence. A ...

, United States, an unincorporated community * Constance, Minnesota, United States, an unincorporated community * Mount Constance, Washington State, United States * Lake Constance (disambiguation), in several countries *

Konstanz Konstanz ( , , , ), traditionally known as Constance in English, is a college town, university city with approximately 83,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the Baden-Württemberg state of south Germany. The city ho ...

, Germany, sometimes written as Constance in English *

Konstanz (district) Konstanz (or ''Constance'') is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the south of Baden-Württemberg on the German-Swiss border, situated along the shores of Lake Constance. Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Schwarzwald-Baar, Tuttlingen, ...

, Germany

People

Constance (given name) Constance is a primarily feminine given name in use since the Middle Ages that is derived either from Constantia, a Late Latin name, or from the term meaning Loyalty, steadfast. In medieval England, diminutives of the name included Cust or Cussot. ...

, female given name, also includes list of people with the name *

Andrew Constance Andrew James Constance (born 31 October 1973) is an Australian politician who represented Electoral district of Bega, Bega for the Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division), Liberal Party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly ...

(born 1973), Australian politician *

Angela Constance Angela Constance (born 15 July 1970) is a Scottish politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs since 2023. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Alm ...

(born 1970), Scottish politician * Ansley Constance (born 1966), Seychelles politician * Lincoln Constance (1909–2001), American botanist * Nathan Constance (born 1979), English actor

Fictitious characters

*The protagonist of a story in

Nicholas Trivet Nicholas Trivet (or Trevet, as he himself wrote) (c. 1258 – c. 1328) was an English Anglo-Norman chronicler. Life Trivet was born in Somerset and was the son of Sir Thomas Trevet (died 1283), a judge who came of a Norfolk or Somerset family. ...

's ''Les chronicles'' retold both as ''

The Man of Law's Tale "The Man of Law's Tale" is the fifth of the ''Canterbury Tales'' by Geoffrey Chaucer, written around 1387. John Gower's "Tale of Constance" in ''Confessio Amantis'' tells the same story and may have been a source for Chaucer. Nicholas Trivet's ...

'' (by

Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer ( ; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for ''The Canterbury Tales''. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He w ...

) and as the ''Tale of Constance'' (in

John Gower John Gower (; c. 1330 – October 1408) was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and the Pearl Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. He is remembered primarily for three major works—the ''Mirour de l'Omme'', ''Vox ...

's ''

Confessio Amantis ''Confessio Amantis'' ("The Lover's Confession") is a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower, which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems. Accor ...

'').

Arts and entertainment

* ''Constance'' (album), a 2000 album by Southpacific * ''Constance'' (1984 film), a New Zealand film * ''Constance'' (1998 film), an erotic film * ''Constance'' (novel), 1982 novel by Lawrence Durrell * Constance Billard School for Girls, a fictional private school in ''Gossip Girl'' * ''Constance'' (magazine), arts and literature magazine based in New Orleans

Other uses

* HMS ''Constance'', six ships of the British Royal Navy *, later USS ''YP-633'', a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1922 * Hotel Constance, Pasadena, California, United States * Constance railway station, a former locomotive depot and stop in New South Wales, Australia

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