*Four* Women to Know: Marguerite, Sanchia, Eleanor and Beatrice
The most celebrated and powerful women of their time. — Nancy Goldstone
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Sanchia, Eleanor, Margaret and Beatrice -- these four sisters would go on to rule half of 13th century Europe.
Margaret, the eldest daughter, married King Louis IX of France at age 12, when she left her sisters behind in Provence and changed her name …
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