Margaret Wade Labarge CM FRSC (1916–2009) was a Canadian historian specializing in the role of women in the Middle Ages.
Her parents had expectations of her that were no less than those for her three older brothers: Monroe became and actor and drama teacher in Princeton; Hugh became head of the Canadian Studies department at the University of Rochester and writer of The French Canadians, a history of the economy of French Canada; Philip was a World War II soldier who earned a medal of honour from France.
[1] The family moved from New York to New Canaan, Connecticut, after a physician made a recommendation for country living to help ten-year-old Wade's vision problems.
She considered English literature as a focus, but settled upon medieval history; her supervisor was Frederick Maurice Powicke.
She is best known her various books: A Baronial Household of the Thirteenth Century is about Eleanor, wife of Simon de Montfort, detailing the time while her husband was away at war; and Medieval Travellers: The Rich and the Restless is about Mary, daughter of Edward I of England, a peripatetic nun.