LOL.. reread your message.. you do not have the bood ( 

 Anyway... yes.. I'll read more on Rosalind, the book is invaulable sourece material for further exploration. I am interested in far more then Midevial Women though )  Its is simply what has obsessed me as of late because I know now what other people said about women is not compleatly true. And there seems to be another connection... the Gnostic-inspired Cathars, under their customs, from 1000's to the Albiginian Crusade, women were more or less equal, and in the Aquitaine author Alson Wise says women could inherit and hold property and administer them automoniously from their husbands estates well into the mid 1200's. Boulonge, where Baldwin I and II and ultimatly the entire Jerusalem line, is from also was a Cathar stronghold. I would not be surprised if that was a contributing factor to Baldwin II;s ease in designating Melisende his heir.