Petronilla de Meath, Irish suspected witch (born c. 1300)

Petronilla de Meath

Irish woman burnt for heresy

Petronilla de Midia (of Meath) (c. 1300 – 3 November 1324) was an alleged follower of Dame Alice Kyteler, a wealthy woman of Flemish ancestry who lived in the English colony of Ireland in what is now County Kilkenny. After the death of Kyteler's fourth husband, Kyteler was…