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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY

an accommodation with Guelph and his adherents was the consequence of this act of female heroism. This affecting incident happened in the year 1141.




JAND BIBI, Queen of Deccan, in Hindostan, in the 16th Century,

Was a wise and able princess. She maintained her dominions in peace and prosperity, and repulsed, with success, the attacks of the Moguls, who wished to subjugate them to their emperor.

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JANE, Daughter of Henry I, King of Navarre, married 1284, at the Age of 13, to Philip the Fair, King of France. Died 1304, aged 33.

This prince had the same good fortune as his rival, our Edward the First, in being tenderly and faithfully attached to his wife, and in possessing a woman of courage, sense, and virtue, "who held," says Mezeray, "every one chained by the eye, ear, and heart, being equally beautiful, eloquent, and generous." The count de Bar, kinsman to the king of England, invaded Champagne, the patrimony of Jane, who went in person to defend it, gave battle to the enemy, delivered orders herself in the midst of the combat, vanquished and took prisoner the count de Bar, whom she brought in triumph to Paris. She governed Navarre and Champagne, the administration of which the king always left to her, with wisdom, as she defended them with bravery. She founded, with royal magnificence, the college of Navarre, a long time the school of the French

nobility,