Brewer's: Richarda

wife of Nicholas d'Este. A widow who, with her son Hercules, was dispossessed of her inheritance by Lionello and Borso. Both were obliged to go into exile, but finally Hercules recovered his lordship.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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