Dame Claramunda combined two successful businesses and made them even.
Twice widowed Dame Claramunda held and lived in “Ronceval” a magnificent 13th century tenement on Western Esplanade. Her entrepreneurial skills enabled her to amass a great fortune. While in the following century, Petronilla le Fleming, the widow of John le Fleming bravely and successfully, sued for her inheritance rights, and continued with the family trading business becoming a wealthy and independent woman.
Why was dame claramunda called a feme sole? She was a femme sole - a single woman who was wealthy and owned property in her own right.
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