Women used seal matrices (primarily rings and pendants) to authenticate documents, express status, and assert legal and familial identity. Seal matrices associated with women are well attested in Merovingian France, but they disappear almost entirely thereafter until the twelfth century when women can be seen once again using seals for official transactions. Once sealing became more common in the thirteenth century, women used personal seals in a variety of walks of life, including endowments, transfers of property, trade, and personal communication. Containing both images and text, seal matrices and seals offer scholars important sources for understanding women’s self-representation and their relationship to their written environment.