Aénor (also Aenora, Ainora; the spelling Aénor suggests an original trisyllabic pronunciation) was a feminine given name in medieval France.
It arose as a latinization of an earlier Germanic name, via the form Adenordis ( Aanordis, Anordis, Anor).[ Zeitschrift für namenforschung 19 (1943) p. 105.]
Use of the name seems to be mostly confined to the 12th century; before that, it would have retained its original form ( Anordis or similar), and after 1200 it had been mostly ousted by its replacement Eleanor.
The form Adenordis is recorded in the 1090s.[ Mémoires de la Société archéologique de Touraine 22 (1872), p. 260;
Mark E. Blincoe, Angevin Society and the Early Crusades, 1095–1145, 2008, p. 294.
Jean Mabillon, Ouvrages posthumes, vol. 3 (1724), p. 391.]
It may itself be a corruption of Adamardis,[ Archives historiques de la Saintonge et de l'Aunis, vol. 33 (1903), p. 291.[4]] apparently a feminine form of Ademar.
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People with the name include:
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Adenordis, a sister of Hugo of Chaumont (floruit 1090s)
[ Chartes originales antérieures à 1121 conservées en France Blois, AD Loir-et-Cher, 17 H 10 n° 1 (1096)]
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Ainora (1102–1147) daughter of Stephen, Count of Blois and Adela of Normandy, also known as Eleanor of Champagne, the first wife of Ralph I, Count of Vermandois who was displaced by Eleanor of Aquitaine's sister Petronilla of Aquitaine, leading to a two years' war (1142–44) in Champagne.
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Aenor de Châtellerault (c. 1103–1130), also Adenordis, Adamardis,
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Aenora (Eleonore) de Vermandois (b. c. 1151, d. between 1204 and 1214), a daughter of Raoul de Vermandois.
[ Zeitschrift für namenforschung 19 (1943) p. 111.]
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Aenora de Maubanc, also known as Eleanor Malbank, born c. 1172 in Norman England (Cheshire)
[Geoffrey Barraclough, The Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, C. 1071–1237, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire vol. 126 (1988), pp. 342, 393.]
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Aénor de Saint-Valery (1192–1250), wife of Robert III of Dreux.
[Nicolas Filleau de la Chaise, Histoire de Saint Louis, Coignard, 1688,
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p. 182
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