What is a marchioness?

Question

Hey so in my socials class right now we are doing the renaissance and the renaissance artists and scientists. For my artist I picked a man called Botticelli also known as Alessandro Filippo. I was looking at a page about him and was bored so I went to one about women around that time. I found a woman called Catherine da Medici. Botticelli was also a memeber of the Medici family and was trying to figure out if they are both related through blood to eachother. And it says she was a marchioness?!?! What is a marchioness? SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY

Answer 1

A female marquis.

Answer 2

A Marchioness is the wife or widow of a Marquess or a woman who holds that rank in her own right. However, Marquess is also analogous to Marquis and Margrave, Marchioness can also be a word for Marquise or Margravine. Margravine is the English form of the ruling form of the title and is found in areas of the former Holy Roman Empire.

Answer 3

Marchioness could refer to:

A noblewoman with the rank of Marquess, or the wife of a Marquess.

The Marchioness, a pleasure boat that was sunk on the River Thames in 1989.

Answer 4

the wife or widow of a marquis, a marquis is a nobleman

Answer 5

I believe that it's the female equivalent of a Marquise.

Answer 6

To go with all the other answer marquise are a step above baron, baronet's, and viscounts.  Middle of the road nobility.

Answer 7

A marchioness if the wife of Marquis. A marquis is a high level of nobility only exceeded by a Duke and/or Royalty.

Answer 8

idk go look for it on google

Answer 9

A marquis/marchioness is a member of the titled aristocracy: in order of precedence it is duke,marquis,earl,viscount and baron.

For a history of the nobility visit

http://users.chinet.com/~laura/html/titl...

Answer 10

Marchioness could refer to:

A noblewoman with the rank of Marquess, or the wife of a Marquess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchioness

Also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchioness...