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unusual facts about Suo jure



Agnes of Faucigny

Agnes of Faucigny (died 11 August 1268) was suo jure Dame of Faucigny, and countess consort of Savoy by virtue of her marriage in 1236 to Peter II, Count of Savoy.

Anne Crofton, 1st Baroness Crofton

Anne Crofton, 1st Baroness Crofton (11 January 1751 – 12 August 1817) was an Irish suo jure peeress.

Beatrice of Savoy, Dame of Faucigny

Beatrice of Savoy (c.1237-21 April 1310) was suo jure Dame of Faucigny through the inheritance from her mother Agnes of Faucigny.

Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange

Queen Beatrix abdicated on 30 April 2013, and Princess Catharina-Amalia, as the heiress apparent to her father, assumed the title of Princess of Orange, becoming the first to do so in her own right (Suo jure) since Mary of Baux-Orange.

Constance of Béarn

Constance (died 1310) was suo jure Viscountess of Marsan as well as titular Countess of Bigorre, daughter of Gaston VII, Viscount of Béarn and his first wife Martha of Marsan.

Marie I, Countess of Boulogne

Marie I or Mary (1136 – 25 July 1182 in St Austrebert, Montreuil, France) was the suo jure Countess of Boulogne from 1159 to 1170.


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Anne de Beauchamp

Anne de Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick, daughter of Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick, suo jure Countess of Warwick

Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville

Her mother Jeanne of Lusignan was part of one of the most illustrious French families, daughter of Hugh XII of Lusignan, Count of La Marche and of Angoulême, and sister of Yolanda of Lusignan, the suo jure Countess of La Marche.

Joan de Munchensi

Joan de Munchensi or Munchensy (or Joanna), Lady of Swanscombe and Countess of Pembroke (c. 1230 – aft. September 20, 1307), was the daughter of Joan Marshal and granddaughter of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke suo jure.