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Mecia is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Mécia Lopes de Haro, 13th-century Castilian noblewoman *Mecia Simson Mecia Simone Simson (; born 29 December 1989) is an English actress and model. She won the fifth series of ''Britain's Next Top Model'' (2009). She played Francesca Findabair in the Netflix series ''The Witcher'' (2021–). Early life and edu ... (born 1989), English actress and model * Mecia de Viladestes (fl. 1401–1413), Jewish cartographer of Majorca See also * Mencía (other) {{Given name ...
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Mecia Simson
Mecia Simone Simson (; born 29 December 1989) is an English actress and model. She won the fifth series of ''Britain's Next Top Model'' (2009). She played Francesca Findabair in the Netflix series ''The Witcher'' (2021–). Early life and education Simson was born in Plymouth to an English mother and a Jamaican father. She attended Dunstone Primary School, Plymstock School, and City College Plymouth. After taking a year-long foundation course at the Central School of Speech and Drama in 2016, Simson went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting from the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in 2019. Career At the age of 19, Simson competed in and won the fifth series of the Sky Living reality television competition ''Britain's Next Top Model'' in 2009. Shortly after winning, she landed her first cover photoshoot for the magazine ''Company''. She went on to have gigs with Stella McCartney, Max Factor, and Debenhams, and appear in the Olly Murs music video "Oh My Good ...
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Mecia De Viladestes
Mecia de Viladestes, also known as Mecià or Macià de Viladestes was a 15th century Jewish cartographer, one of the Mallorcan school of cartography. The name Mecia is a variant of Matias or Matthew. His birth name was Samuel Corchos. In 1401, he was conveyed to Sicily under license from the governor of Mallorca, presumably one of the Jews forcibly converted to Christianity around this time. He is mostly known for his 1413 portolan chart which shows the N.E Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the Red Sea, and parts of the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Baltic Sea. The map, which measures 1.21 X 0.87m, was discovered by Joaquín Lorenzo Villanueva in the archives of the Carthusian monastery of the Val de Cristo, near the town of Segorbe in Spain. It bears the inscription in gold letters MECIA DE VILA DESTIS ME FECIT IN ANO MCCCCXIII - ''Mecia de Viladestes made me in the year 1413''. A complete reproduction of the map was first published in 1896. The m ...
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Mécia Lopes De Haro
Mécia Lopes de Haro or Mencía López de Haro (c. 1215–c. 1270) was a Castilian noblewoman, the wife successively of count Álvaro Pérez de Castro and of King Sancho II of Portugal. The subsequent annulment of her marriage by Pope Innocent IV has led to disagreement over whether she should be counted among the queens consort of Portugal. She played a central role in the Portuguese political crisis of 1245. Birth Mécia Lopes was born in Biscay, the daughter of Lope Díaz II de Haro, lord of Biscay, and of Urraca Alfonso of León. Her mother was an illegitimate daughter of Alfonso IX of León. She was thus niece of the reigning king, Ferdinand III of Castile. First Marriage Mécia was married on 29 September 1234 to Álvaro Pérez de Castro, a magnate involved in the expansion of the Castilian kingdom into the region of Cordoba, whose first marriage to Aurembiaix, Countess of Urgell had been annulled in 1228,LA FIGANIÈRE, Frederico Francisco de, ''Memorias das rain ...
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