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baronissa

baronissa , baroness, tenant in chief (f.) or wife of baron. barones ‥ et ~e et eorum superiores non affidabunt sed plegios invenient Bracton 351b; 1270 quia ipsa [M. Lungespee] ~a nostra est, cui ‥ sicut nec aliis fidelibus regni nostri ‥ deesse non possumus Cl 294; s1344 fuerunt ‥ ibidem ‥ comitisse, ~e, necnon domine et domicelle Ad. Mur. app. 231; 1496 Eleanore Dowdale baronesse de Novan (Comp. Subthes. Hib.) L. & P. Ric. III–Hen. VII 309.

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