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comitissa 1 (Continental title) countess. ~a Boloniensis DB I 75; Baldwinus [comes Flandrie] ‥ habuit [filium] Robertum, qui ‥ ~am Frisie uxorem nactus Frisonis cognomen accepit W. Malm. GR III 256; s1136 ~a Andegavensis, regis H. filia G. Steph. I 22; s1140 Adela ~a Carnotensis, soror H. regis J. Hex. HR Cont. 303; hec comitem comitissa parit comiti sociata (Eleg. Waleranni) Steph. Rouen app. 767; interea Tholosa potens fossata reformat, / et comes exclusus et comitissa dolent Garl. Tri. Eccl. 83; quartus [filius Havelec] vocatus est Thoraldus, qui duxit uxorem ~am de Hertowe in Northwegia Knighton I 19. 2 (in pre-Conquest Eng.) wife of ealdorman or eorl.. Ghida ~a tenebat tempore regis Eduuardi DB I 9b; s1057 quod monasterium [de Coventreo] ‥ ipse [comes Leofricus] et uxor ejus, ‥ nobilis ~a Godgiva, ‥ construxerunt Fl. Worc. 216. 3 countess, wife of earl: a (post-Conquest Eng); b (Scot); c (W); d (Ir.). a 1085 comes Rogerus [de Lacy] ‥ et ~a (Chirog.) EHR XLIV 372; Judita ~a tenet in Meldone v hidas DB I 217 (cf. MonA III 413); c1150 teste cometissa [Cestrie] Cart. Chester 55; c1160 M. ~a Gloecestrie et W. filius ejus, Gloecestrie consul Ch. Sal. 32; p1224 R. comes Cestrie et Lincolnie: ‥ ad universitatis vestre uotitiam volo pervenire me dedisse ‥ domine H. de Quency sorori mee charissime comitatum Lincolnie, sc. quantum ad me pertinet, ut inde ~a existat Dign. Peer V 8; 1229 ego Ela ~a Sar’ Reg. S. Osm. II 118 (cf. ib. 120: commitissam predictam); 1231 eximie domine ‥, domine M. de Quinci, ~e Wintonie Gros. Ep. 5; s1396 commendata est regina duxisse Lancastrie et Glovernie et ~is Huntyndonie et Staffordie aliisque dominabus Wals. HA II 221; nec sibi dimissam solam fovet hic comitissam [de Warewyk] Gower CT II 203; hec ~a A. cowntasse WW; 1512 celebrata est missa pro Ela comatissa Reg. Merton 431; 15‥ Margaretae comitessae Richmundanae (Successio Episc.) Anglia Sacra I 382.  b c1195 Matildis ~a de Stratheryn Inchaffray 2; s1257 ~a uxor ejus [comitis de Menteth], cui comitatus ‥ ex parte patris pertinebat Plusc. VII 22; 1285 R. de Brus comes de Carryck et M. uxor ejus ejusdem loci ~a Melrose I 316; s1296 cum comes Patricius [de Dunbar], qui wlgariter dicitur Counte de la Marche, ‥ militaret, uxor ejus ~a in castro suo de Dunbar manens ‥ eos [Scotos] ‥ accersivit W. Guisb. 277; 1415 nobilis et generosa domina, domina ~a de Angus et del Marr Pri. Cold. 88.  c 1186 in perdonis Eve [de Clare] ~e de Strogoil RBExch 67; s1312 comes [de Penebroke] cum ~a sua Trokelowe 76; c1400 [filia] ultima Margareta fuit, Pembrok comitissa (Epitaph. Ed. III) Pol. Poems I 220.  d [Eva de Clare] ~a de Hybernia est de donatione domini regis RDomin 66 (cf. CurR I 4); 1244 que terre ‥ acciderunt in partem [Emeline] ~e Ulton’ Cl 277. 4 (w. Mareschalliae) countess marshal. s1358 T. ‥ episcopus ‥ feloniis ‥ maliciose ad sectam ~e de marescal’ ‥ convictus ‥ aufugit Birchington Arch. Cant. 44; 1377 quoad officium marescalli Anglie, Margareta Mareschallie ~a et Norffolchie porrexit peticionem suam MGL II 458.