Matilda Penne (died 1393), was an English businessperson of the fourteenth century, whose will survives.[1]
She inherited a skinning business from her late spouse, who died in 1379.[2] She belonged to the elite of her craft and was described as one of the most prominent skinners in the city of London.[3] She enjoyed great respect among her colleagues, who referred apprentices to her, and she is registered to have educated many student skinners in her trade.[4] She is one of few women skinners of the period of whom there are any significant amount of information. She left money to several churches and religious institutions.[5]
References
edit- ^ Barron, Caroline (2004). "Women traders and artisans in London". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52233. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 20 March 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Barron, Caroline; Sutton, Anne; Veale, Elspeth (1994). "Chapter 3. Matilda Penne, Skinner (d. 1392–3)". Medieval London Widows, 1300-1500. Bloomsbury. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
- ^ David Nicholas (17 June 2014). The Later Medieval City: 1300-1500. Routledge. pp. 266–. ISBN 978-1-317-90188-4. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
- ^ Marjorie Keniston McIntosh (2 June 2005). Working Women in English Society, 1300-1620. Cambridge University Press. pp. 234–. ISBN 978-0-521-84616-5. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
- ^ Louise J. Wilkinson (6 January 2015). Women in Thirteenth-century Lincolnshire. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-86193-334-1. Retrieved 20 March 2021.