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4 unusual facts about Margaret Wade Labarge


Cynthia Neville

2006 Margaret Wade Labarge Prize for the book, Native Lordship in Medieval Scotland from the Canadian Society of Medievalists.

Margaret Wade Labarge

She is best known for two of her books: A Baronial Household of the Thirteenth Century is about Eleanor, wife of Simon de Montfort, detailing the time while her husband was away at war; and Medieval Travellers: The Rich and the Restless is about Mary, daughter of Edward I of England, a peripatetic nun.

Her parents had expectations of her that were no less than those for her three older brothers: Monroe became and actor and drama teacher in Princeton; Hugh became head of the Canadian Studies department at the University of Rochester and writer of The French Canadians, a history of the economy of French Canada; Philip was a World War II soldier who earned a medal of honour from France.

They moved to Canada, and she spent most of her later years in Ottawa, where the couple had two daughters and two sons.



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