Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
EUROPEAN QUEENS
AND EMPRESSES
from BCE 1200
Regents of kingdoms and female rulers of principalities, duchies, counties, baronies are not included
| Before 512 Queen Hypsipyle of Lemnos (Greece) Circa 480 Queen and Admiral Artemisia I of Caria-Harlikarnassos and Kos (Turkey) Circa 353-50 Queen Artemisia II of Caria, Rodhos and Harlikarnassos (Turkey) Also Satrap of Asia Minor or Vice-Reine of the Persian King. 340-35 and 334-20 Queen Ada I of Caria (Turkey) Co-ruler with her brother and husband Idrieus in succession to their sister, Artemissa II. After his death she ruled alone for three years until her younger brother, Pixadarus (341-335), deposed her. Until early the 300's Queen Regnant Tirghetau of Circassia (Russia) 285-281 Ruler Arsinoe II Piladelphos of Herakleia, Pontica, Kassandria and Ephesos (Turkey) 281-279 Resided in Kassandreia 277-70 Co-Regent Queen of Egypt Circa 215-175/76 Co-Reigning Queen Kamasayre Philoteknos of the Bosporanian Realm (Crimean) (Georgia) 200's Queen Martia Proba of a Celtic Tribe (United Kingdom) 130 De Facto Ruler Queen Laodike of Cappadocia (Greece) 100s Queen Larthia Seianti of the City State of Caere in Etruria (Italy) Around 100 Ruler Aba of Olbe (Turkey) Until BCE 13 and BCE 8-7/8 CE Reigning Queen Dynamis of the Bosporanian Realm (Georgia) BCE 10-5, 4-2 and BCE 6-12 CE Queen Regnant Erato of Greater Armenia BCE 8-23 CE Queen Regnant Pythodorida of Pontus (Turkey) Around year 1 Queen Medb of Connaught (Ireland) 7/8-23 Queen Pythodoris I Philometer of Pontus (Turkey) |
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Circa 40-60 Queen Regnant Cartimandra of The Brigants (Brigantia) (United Kingdom) Around 60 Queen Regnant Phytodoris of Colchis (Georgia) 60-61 Queen Regnant Boudicca of the Iceni-Tribe in Norfolk (United Kingdom) 130-? Reigning Dowager Queen Laodike II Nysa of Cappadocia (Turkey) 378 Queen Regnant Zarmandukht of Greater Armenia 400-04 De-facto Ruler Empress Eudoxia of The Byzantine Empire (Covering what is now Greece and Turkey) 414-55 De-facto Ruler Augusta Pulchera of The Byzantine Empire (Covering what is now Greece and Turkey) 518-65 Co-Ruler Empress Theodora of The Byzantine Empire (Covering what is now Greece and Turkey) 526-34 Regent Princess Amalasuentha of the Ostrotoths (Italy) 534-35 Joint Reigning Queen 565-572 and 574-578 Co-ruler Empress Sophia of The Byzantine Empire (Covering what is now Greece and Turkey) 572-574 Sole Regent 590 Reigning Dowager Queen Theodolina of the Lombards (Italy) 615-25 Regent of the Kingdom 672-74 Queen Regnant Seaxburh of Wessex (United Kingdom) 780-90 Regent Dowager Empress Eirene of The Byzantine Empire (Covering what is now Greece and Turkey) 787 Presiding over the 7th Ecomenical Synod (Council) 792 Joint Ruler of the Empire 797-802 Reigning Empress Until 931 Co-Regent Margravine Ermengard di Lucca of Ivrea (Italy) 945-59 Co-ruler Empress Helena Lecapena of the Byzantine Empire (Covering what is now Greece and Turkey) 973-75 Joint Ruler Queen �lfthryth of England 978-84 Regent Dowager Queen 978-94 Queen Gurandukht of Abkhazia (Georgia) 1014-72 Queen Dearbforgail of Munster and Ireland |
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1028-41 and 1042-50 Joint Reigning Empress Zo� Porphyrogenita of The Byzantine Empire 1037-65 Co-Queen Regnant Sancha of Le�n (Spain) 1042 and 1050-55 Joint Empress Theodora Porphyrogenita of The Byzantine Empire 1055-56 Sole Empress 1042-66 Joint Ruler Queen Edith of Wesex of England (United Kingdom) 1066 De facto Regent 1109-29 Queen Regnant Urraca I Alfonsez of Castilla and L�on (Spain) 1117-18 Presiding over the Hearings of the Royal Court Mathilda of England of the Holy Roman Empire 1119 Stadtholder in Italy and Superme Commander of the Army and Presiding over Courts 1125 Holder of the Imperial Insignia of the Holy Roman Empire 1135-50 De-facto Sovereign Duchess of Normandie (France) 1141 Queen Regnant (Lady Domina) of England (United Kingdom) (02.02-01.11) 1137-63 Queen Regnant Petronilla I of Arag�n (Spain) 1163-69 Regent of Ar�gon and Barcelona 1178-84 Joint Ruler Queen Tamar of Georgia 1184-1213 The Most High Queen, by the will of our Lord, King and Queen of Queens of the Abkhazis, Kartvelians, Ranians, Kakhetians and the Armenians, Shirvanshah and Shahanshah and Master of all the East and West, Glory of the World and Faith, Champion of the Messiah 1191-94 Queen Regnant Berenguela of Navarra (Spain) 1194-98 Queen Regnant Constanza of Sicily (Italy) 1195-97 Regent of Sicily 1197-98 (28.98-17.05) Sole Ruer of Sicily 1214-15 Regent Princess Bergenguela of Castilla (Spain) 1215-19 Queen Regnant of Asturias-Le�n and Castilla 1219 Regent 1230 Regent in Le�n |
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1341-42 and 1343-82 Queen Regnant Giovanna I d'Angi� of Napoli and Sicilia and Sardegna, Sovereign Duchess of Pouilles and Calabre, Princess of Capua, Sovereign Countess of Province, Forcalquier and Pi�mont (Italy and France) Around 1400-42 Titular Queen Yolande de Arag�n of Sicily, Napoli, Jerusalem, and Arag�n (Italy) |
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1409-15 Vice-Reine Blanca de Navarra of Sicilia (Italy) 1414-35 Queen Regnant Giovanna II d'Angi� of Napoli (Italy) and Titular Queen of Jerusalem Cyprus and Armenia, Sicily, Hungary, Dalmatia, Croatia, Ramia, Serbia, Galicia, Lodomeria, Cumania and Bulgaria 1437-40 Queen Elisabeth von Luxemburg of Bohemia and of Croatia-Dalmatia, Soverign Duchess of Luxembourg 1461-64 Titular Queen Blanca II of Navarra (Spain) 1473-74 Regent Dowager Queen Catherine Cornaro of Cyprus 1474-1504 Queen Isabel I de Trastamara of Castilla and Le�n (Spain) 1479-80 Queen Leonor Trastmara of Navarra (Spain) 1483-1512 and 1512-17 Queen Regnant Catalina de Grailly of Navarra, Co-Princess of Andorra, Duchesse de Gandie, Montbauc, Pegnafiel, Countess de Foix, Bigorre, Ribagorza and Viscomtesse de B�arn (Spain) 1504-55 Queen Juana la Loca of Castilla, Des Asturias and Galicia 1552-67 HM Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots 1553 Jane, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Supreme Head on Earth of the Church of England and Ireland 1553-58 HM Mary I Tudor, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith 1555-1572 Queen Regnant Juana III d�Albert of Navarra and Co-Princess of Andorra, Duchess d'Albert, Comtesse de Foix (etc.) and P�rigod, Viscomtesse de Limoges, Comtesse de Rodez, d'Armagnac, Perche, Fezensac, de L'Isle-Jourdain, Porho�t, Pardiac, Viscomtesse de Lomagne, Fezenzaguet, Brulhois, Cressey, d'Auvillars, Baroness de Castelnau, Caussade, Montmiral and Dame de La Fl�che and Baug� (France and Spain) 1558-1603 Elizabeth I Tudor, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Supreme, Head on Earth of the Church of England and Ireland 1575-86 Rex Poloniae Anna Jagiellonka of Poland 1682-86 Tzarevna Regnant Sofiya Aleksyevna Romanova of Russia 1689-94 HM Mary II Stuart, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Supreme Head on Earth of the Church of England and Ireland 1702-1714 H.M. Anne Stuart, Queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Supreme Head on Earth of the Church of England and Ireland 1711-37 Sovereign Duchess Anna Ivanovna in Livonia of Kurland and Semigallia (Latvia) 1714-41 Member of the Council of State Princess Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden 1725-27 Imperatitsa Regnant Catherina I of Russia 1731 Sovereign Princess Louise-Hippolyte Grimaldi of Monaco , Duchesse de Valentinois, d'Estouteville, de Mazarin et de Mayenne, Princesse de Ch�teau-Porcien, Marquise des Baux, de Chilly et de Guiscard, Comtesse de Carlades, de Ferrette, de Belfort, de Thann, de Rosemont, de Thorigny et de Longjumeau, Baronne de Buis, de Saint-L�, de la Luthumi�re et de Hambye, d'Altkirch et de Massy, Dame de Saint-R�my,de Matignon, d'Isenheim 1697-1731.1740-80 Empress Maria Theresia, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess Moravia and Schlesia, Queen of Croatia and Dalmatia, Princess of Transylvania and Grand Duchess of Siebenb�rgen, Duchess of Gelders, Limburg, J�lich, Luxembourg, Brabant, Quilon, Bar and Franche-Comt�, Margravine of Higher-Elsass, Breisgau, Lower-Elsass and Antwerpen, Countess of Flanders, Hainault, d'Artois, Boulonge, Namur, Ponthieu, Picardie, d'Eu, Vermand�is, Charolais, Macon, Montbeliard, Zutphen, Nevers and Rethel and Baroness d'Il�s, Bar-sur-Seine etcShe was ruler of most of Central Europe, large parts of the Balkans and Belgium and Luxembourg. 1741-62 Imperatitsa Regnant Elisabeth Petrovna of Russia, Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsarisa of Moscow, Kiev, Wladimir, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, Poland, Siberia, the Chersonnese Taurics, and Georgia, Lady of Pskov, Grand Duchess of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia and Finland, Princess of Estonia, Livonia, Courland and Semigallia, Samogitia, Bielostock, Carelia, Tver, Yongoria, Perm, Vlatks, Bolgaria, and of other lands, Lady and Grand Duchess of Lower Novgorod, Tchernigov, Riasan, Polotsk, Rostov, Yaroslav, Belosero, Oudoria, Obdoria, Condia, Vitebsk, Mstislav, and all the Northern Region, Lady and Sovereign of the lands of Iveria, Cartalinia, Kabardinia and the Provinces of Armenia, Lady of the Circassian and Mountain princes, Lady of Turkestan, Supreme Defender and Guardian of the Dogmas of the (Russian Orthodox) Church. 1762-96 Imperatitsa Catharina II the Great of Russia, Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsarisa of Moscow, Kiev, Wladimir, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, Poland, Siberia, the Chersonnese Taurics, and Georgia, Lady of Pskov, Grand Duchess of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia and Finland, Princess of Estonia, Livonia, Courland and Semigallia, Samogitia, Bielostock, Carelia, Tver, Yongoria, Perm, Vlatks, Bolgaria, and of other lands, Lady and Grand Duchess of Lower Novgorod, Tchernigov, Riasan, Polotsk, Rostov, Yaroslav, Belosero, Oudoria, Obdoria, Condia, Vitebsk, Mstislav, and all the Northern Region, Lady and Sovereign of the lands of Iveria, Cartalinia, Kabardinia and the Provinces of Armenia, Lady of the Circassian and Mountain princes, Lady of Turkestan, Supreme Defender and Guardian of the Dogmas of the (Russian Orthodox) Church |
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1833-68 Her Catholic Majesty Isabel II, by the Grace of God, Queen of Spain and the IndiesHer other titles were Queen of Castile, Leon, Aragon, the Two Sicilies, of Jerusalem, Navarra, Granada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Mallorca, Menorca, Sevilla, Carde�a, C�rdoba, C�cega, Murcia, Ja�n, the Algarve, Algerias, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, the East and West Indies, , and the Oceanic Colonies, Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Burgundy, Brabant and Milano, Countess of Habsburg, Flanders, Tirol and Barcelona, Lady of Vizcaya and Molina 1837-1901 H.M. Victoria, By the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith and Supreme Head on Earth of the Church of England and Ireland (20.6.1837 - 22.01.1901) 1890-1948 H.M. Wilhelmina, By the Grace of God Queen of the Netherlands, Princess of Oranje-Nassau etc, etc, etc. Netherlands at the time included Oostindia (Indonesia), Dutch Guyana (Suriname) and The Nederlanse Antillen. 1912-19 H.G.H. Marie-Ad�lhe�de, By the Grace of God Grande Duchess of Luxembourg, Duchess of Nassau, Countess-Palatine and Electress of the Rhine, Countess of Sayn, Hadenburg, Königstein, Krazenborgen and Dietz, Burgravine of Hammerstein, Dame of Mahlberg, Wiesbaden, Idstein, Merenberg, Limburg and Eppstein 1919-64 HRH. Charlotte, By the Grace of God Grande Duchesse of Luxembourg, Duchess of Nassau, Countess-Palatine and Electress of the Rhine, Countess of Sayn, Hadenburg, Königstein, Krazenborgen and Dietz, Burgravine of Hammerstein, Dame of Mahlberg, Wiesbaden, Idstein, Merenberg, Limburg and Eppstein.
1972- H.M. Margrethe the Second, by the Grace of God, Denmark's Queen Supreme Commander of the Defence Forces and Head of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church. T 1980-2013 H.M. Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, By the Grace of God, Queen of the Netherlands, Princess van Oranje-Nassau, Princess van Lippe-Biesterfeld etc, etc, etc. Last update 02.02.13 |