Constance seized her dower lands and refused to surrender them.

In Sweden, she took control over her dower lands, for which she was to show great interest and strict control during her life.

"I suppose you have just such a daughter with dower lands in La Marche?"

Jacquetta had been granted dower lands following her first husband's death on condition that she did not re-marry without a royal licence.

You can not tell me Jean-Pierre would have wed me without the dower lands!

If we had been wed, and then he had lost his holdings in England, we would still only have had the dower lands!

When he died in 1260 part of his estates (her "dower lands") were granted to her.

She paid 5,000 marks for her inheritance, her dower lands, and 'that she be not distrained to marry'.

Until 1275, when he recovered Chartley, the family appeared to have lived on his mother's dower lands in Northamptonshire.

Had he died as God, she was mre had intended, Bertha would have gone to her dower lands charge of the castle.