Aénor (also ''Aenora'', ''Ainora''; the spelling ''Aénor'' suggests an original trisyllabic pronunciation) was a feminine given name in
medieval France.
It is likely the origin of, and by the later Middle Ages was replaced by, the name
Eleanor (''Alienor'').
It arose as a latinization of an earlier
Germanic name, via the form ''Adenordis'' (''Aanordis'', ''Anordis'', ''Anor'').
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.
It may itself be a corruption of ''Adamardis'',
[''Archives historiques de la Saintonge et de l'Aunis'', vol. 33 (1903), p. 29]
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List
People with the name include:
* Adenordis, a sister of Hugo of Chaumont (fl.
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1090s)
* 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.
* Aenor de Châtellerault (c. 1103–1130), also Adenordis, Adamardis,Raoul de Vermandois
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* Aenora de Maubanc, also known as Eleanor Malbank, born c. 1172 in Norman England (Cheshire)
* Aénor de Saint-Valery (1192–1250), wife of Robert III of Dreux.[Nicolas Filleau de la Chaise, ''Histoire de Saint Louis'', Coignard, 1688]
p. 182
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See also
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References
External links
"Aenor" at behindthename.com
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French feminine given names