Heloise Heloysa
abbess · Paris, France · the Paraclete · 1100?–1164
In Paris she fell in love with her teacher Abelard and bore his child, but they were forced apart and she became a nun. The Latin letters she sent him after she became an abbess survive.
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To her lord, or rather her father; to her husband, or rather her brother; from his handmaid, or rather his daughter; his wife, or rather his sister: to Abelard, Heloise.
Domino suo, immo patri; coniugi suo, immo fratri; ancilla sua, immo filia; ipsius uxor, immo soror, Abaelardo Heloysa.The salutation of her first letter to Abelard
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