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Female regents are not included, see list of regents. The following is an incomplete list of women monarchs who are well known from popular writings, although many ancient and poorly documented ruling monarchs (such as those from Africa and Oceania) are omitted. Section 1 lists monarchs who ruled in their own right, such as queens regnant ...
This is a list of female hereditary monarchs who reigned over a political jurisdiction in their own right or by right of inheritance. The list does not include female regents (see List of regents), usually the mother of the monarch, male or female, for although they exercised political power during the period of regency on behalf of their child or children, they were not hereditary monarch ...
Children of female monarchs (6 C) Cihuatlatoque (4 P) Cultural depictions of female monarchs (20 C, 6 P) D. Deified female monarchs (5 C, 1 P) E. Empresses regnant (7 ...
Queen Margrethe II became the first female monarch since Queen Margrethe I (who ruled from 1376 to 1412), and because her father was King Frederik IX, she decided to be the "Christian" name cycle ...
The titles of female monarchs in East Asia are translated directly as "female king" or "female emperor" and the titles of female consorts in East Asia are translated directly as "king's consort" or "emperor's consort". So, the titles of female monarchs in East Asia are the same as those of male monarchs, just indicating that they are women. [a]
Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI, was beheaded during the French Revolution.. This is a list of the women who were queens or empresses as wives of French monarchs from the 843 Treaty of Verdun, which gave rise to West Francia, until 1870, when the French Third Republic was declared.
In contrast, a queen regnant is a female monarch who rules suo jure (Latin for, "in her own right") and usually becomes queen by inheriting the throne upon the death of the previous monarch. A queen dowager is a widowed queen consort, and a queen mother is a queen dowager who is the mother of the current monarch.
Name Father Birth Marriage Became Queen Became Empress Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse Richenza of Northeim: Henry the Fat, Margrave of Frisia c.1087–89 c.1100 30 August 1125 4 June 1133 4 December 1137 10 June 1141 Lothair III: Picture Name Father Birth Marriage Became Queen Became Empress Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse