Worldwide
Guide to Women in Leadership
WOMEN IN
POWER
1350-1400
Female
leaders
and women in other positions of political authority
of independent states and
self-governing understate entities
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Around 1350 Queen Argoye of Zamfara (Nigeria) |
Also known as Algoje, she was succeeded by Karafau. The state was
created before 1200. 1764-1804, Zamfara was annexed by Gobir and in
1902 it was split between France and the British protectorate of
Northern Nigeria. |
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1350 Princesse-Abbesse Simonetta de Vara of Remiremont
(France) |
Another version of her name was Symonate de Varre. |
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1350-66 Princesse-Abbesse Eléonore de Châlon of Remiremont
(France) |
Also known as Aliénor, she was the 10th child of John II de Chalon and Alix de Bourgogne.
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1350 Reigning Abbess
Gerhild von Krenkingen
of Wald,
Lady
of the Offices of Wald, Vernhof and Ennigerloh (Germany) |
Apart from a number of estates and villages, the
chapter also owned vineries in Wald Aufkirch,
Goldbach, Sipplingen und Bermatingen, am Untersee auf der Insel Reichenau and in Allensbach. |
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1350-65
Reigning Abbess
Isabelle I de Herzelles of Bourbourg,
Lady
of Oxelaere, Noordpeene, Faumont and Coutiches (France) |
The Abbey was in constant dispute with the local bishop over supremacy
over the internal affairs. |
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1350-57
Politically Influential
Queen Maria of Portugal of Castile (Spain) |
After the death of her husband, king Alfonso XI,
she was very influential in the government of her son, king Pedro
the Cruel, who began to reign at the age of sixteen. She controlled
him, but emancipated himself with the encouragement of the minister
Juan Alfonso de Albuquerque (her favourite) and became attached to
María Díaz de Padilla, marrying her in secret in 1353. She turned
him against Albuquerque and joined the rebellion against her son,
but when it collapsed, she returned to Portugal in 1357. She lived
(1313-57). |
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1351 Reigning Abbess Anna Boller of Rottenmünster (Germany) |
Since 1227 the Abbey had been place directly under the Emperor as a
Realm of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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1351-80 Princess-Abbess Mathilde van Leeuwenberg of Nivelles, Dame Temporaire and Spirituelle of Nivelles (Belgium) |
Member of a Dutch noble family. |
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1351-61
Reigning Abbess-General Urraca
Fernández de Herrera
of
the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria la Real de Las Huelgas in Burgos (Spain)
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The abbess held the right to grant letters dismissorial for
ordination, and issued licenses authorizing priests, within the limits
of her abbatial jurisdiction, to hear confessions, to preach, and to
engage in the cure of souls. She was privilege also to confirm
Abbesses, to impose censures, and to convoke synods. |
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1352-54 Regent Princess Constanza of Sicily (Italy) |
Unmarried daughter of Pietro II of Sicily (1337-42) and Elisabeth of
Carinthia and Tirol (regent in 1342), she was regent during the reign of her brother
Luigi, who was king 1342-55. Her sister Eufemia was regent for their
other brother, Federico from 1355.
Constanza lived
(1324-55). |
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1352-58 Sovereign Princess Simona Fadrique de Aragón of Tinos (Thenos)
(Greek Island-State) |
Succeeded her husband, Giorgio Ghisi, Lord of Tinos and Mykonos. She
was daughter of Alfonso Fadrique de Aragon, Count of Malta and Gozzo,
Lord of Salona and of certain territories in Greece, (d. 1335/39) -
the son of King Federico of Sicily (1299-1337), and Lady Marulla of
Aegina et cetera, the daughter of Bonifacio da Verona, Lord of Negroponte. |
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1352-58 Dowager Duchess Katharina Subić of Brieg and Ohlau (Brzeg-Oława)
(Then Germany, now Poland) |
The Polish version of her name is
Katarzyna Subić. Held the duchy as her dowry after
the death of her husband, Bolesław III. She was daughter of the
Croatian ban Mladen II. |
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1352-56 Regent Jeanne de Bar of Bar (France) |
The daughter of Count Henri III of Bar, she was
regent for her nephew Robert. She fought for the regency with her
sister-in-law, Jolanta van Flanders-Cassel. She had been married to
John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey until an annulment in 1315.
Her mother was Eleanor of England, daughter of king Edward I of
England, and she lived (1295-1361). |
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1352-54 Sovereign Lady Philipotte van Kleef of Valkenburg
(Belgium) |
Also known as Philippa, she succeeded brother, and reigned jointly
with husband, Hendrik van Vlaanderen, Lord van Ninove, as vassal of
the Duke of Brabant. |
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1353-71 Reignign Abbess Adelheid II von Lupfen of Buchau
(Germany) |
Daughter of
Count Konrad von Lumpfen and Elisabeth von Liebenstein, and was a nun
in Rottenmünster around 1346. |
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1353-73 Reigning Abbess Jeanne de Mangey of the
Royal Abbey of Fontevraud (France) |
The
chapter was founded in 1101, and was unique in the way that the
community was placed directly under the Pope and the King of France. A
Prior under the control of the Abbess commanded the monks in the
double-convent. |
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Circa
1353-90 Sovereign Lady Maria van Wesemaele of Bergen op Zoom
(The Netherlands) |
Succeeded her distant relative, Mathilde, and her husband Hendrik van
Boutershem was joint lord until his death 1371 after which her son,
Hendrik II was joint lord, until he was succeeded by his
granddaughter, Johanna, in 1419. Maria lived (circa 1330-90). |
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1354-59 Acting Governor Jelena Subica of Bosnia |
Regent for the ban (governor) Tvrtko I (1353-77/91), who succeeded
her husband, Stjepan II Kotromanic, initially with Prince Vladislav as regent. After his death she took over as
regent. |
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1354 Acting Duchess Margareta von Bayern of Croatia |
After the death of her husband, Stephen, Duke of Transylvania,
Slavonia, Croatia and Dalmatia (1332-1354), she held the principality
shortly until his relative, Carlo Dancki of Napoli, took over the
reigns.
1357/58 she married Gerlach von Hohenlohe.
She
was daughter of Emperor Ludwig IV of the Holy Roman Empire, Duke of
Upper and Lower Bavaria, King of Italy, King of Germany and his second
wife, Margaret of Hainault, Countess of Hainault, Holland and Zeeland
(1311-1356), she did not have any children and lived (1325-1374). |
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1354/5-1357 Reigning Dowager Duchess Małgorzata Morawska in
Beuthen (Bytom)
(Poland) |
Following the death of her husband, Bolesław of Bytom, she held the Duchy
as her dowry, though her reign was disputed. Also known as Margaret of
Moravia, she was daughter of Johan von Sternberg. |
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1354-62 Princess-Abbess Agnes III von Schrapelau of Quedlinburg
(Germany) |
Daughter of Edlen (the noble) Buchard von Schrapelau and Luitgard Gans
von Wittenberge und Pereberg. Resigned in 1362, died two years later. |
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1355-1404 Sovereign Duchess Jeanne III of Brabant, Limbourg,
Derby and Larche (Belgium) |
Johanna van Brabant succeeded her father, Jan III
van Brabant and had to confirm the
privileges of the large citys of the Duchies. She engaged in a war over the succession with her brothers-in-law,
Lodewijk II van Male, Count of Flanders, and Duke Reinoud III van Gelre, which hit the territories hard financially. 1371 her second husband, Wenceslaus I of Luxembourg was taken prisoner. She had first been married to Willem IV of Holland, Zeeland and Hainalut. Her
sister Marguerite de Brabant-Limbourg was Dame of Mechelen and
Antwerpen, and she abdicated in favour of her daughter, Marguerite
III of Flanders, who died shortly after. Jeanne
lived
(1322-1406). |
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1355-1401 Sovereign Princess
Maria Palaiologina of Lesbos (Greek Island State) |
Her
brother, Emperor Ióannés V Palaiologos, Emperor of Byzantium, gave her
the island as dowry when she married Baron Francesco Gattilusio,
patrician of Genoa, Archon of Lesbos. In 1384 her husband and two
oldest sons were killed by an earthquake and. Their only surviving
son, Jacopo, reigned under the name of Francesco II until his death
1403. She lived (circa 1330/35-circa 1401). |
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1355-57 Regent Princess Eufemia of Sicilia (Sicily) (Italy) |
The
unmarried daughter of Pietro II (1337-42) she was regent for brother,
Federico III, Duke of Athens and Neopatras (1341-55-77), who was
succeeded by daughter Maria in 1377. Their mother, Elisabeth von
Kärnthen was regent 1342 and their sister, Constanza had acted
as regent 1552-54 for their brother King Ludovico.
Eufemia lived
(1330-59). |
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1355-58
Sovereign Lady
Juana Núńez de Lara I of Vizcaya and Lara
(Spain) |
Assumed the title after the death of her brother, Núńo, who had succeeded their
mother, María Díaz de Haro II and their father Juan Núńez de
Lara, and. After she was assassinated during the civil war between
Pedro I the cruel and Enrique II de Trastámara, her husband, Tello
de Castilla, Lord of Aguilar y Castaneda, kept the lordship until 1370. Her sister,
Isabel claimed the position as titular sovereign Lady, but Pedro
I de Castilla usurped the territory 1358-66 and then her husband, Tello of
Aragón was seigneur until 1370, when he was succeeded by her father's sister,
Juana II. Juana I was murdered, and lived (circa 1333-59).
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1355-56
Regent Dowager Tsarina Helena of Bulgaria of Serbia
1355-59 Reigning Dowager Lady of
The Ser Region (between the
lower Vardar and the Mesta) and the Chalcidic Peninsula |
On the death of her
husband, Stefan
Uroš IV Dušan, she was regent and reigned her dowries in the Southeastern part
of the former Serian Empire until she became a nun under the
religious name Elisaveta in 1359, but continued to play an active role in
politics.
She was the daughter of Sratsimir of Kran and Petritsa and the sister of Tsar
Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria. She (d. 1374). |
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1355/56
Acting Governor Irina of
Serbia of Thessaly (Croatia)
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After the death of her first husband, the
Serbian Governor of the Province, Gregorios
Preljub, she attempted to retain control of
Thessaly in the name of her minor son Tomo Preljubović, but in 1356 she was
displaced and forced to return to Serbia by Nikephoros II ex-Lord of Epirus.
Here she married Radoslav Hlapen, the ruler of Vodena, who took Thomas Preljubović under
his wing and in 1367-84 he was Despot of Epirus.
She was the daughter of tsar Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia and Helena
of Bulgaria.
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1355-81
Princess-Abbess Gertrud I von Hanau of
Göss bei Leoben
(Austria)
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Member of a noble family from Hessen in Germany.
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Around
1355 Reigning Abbess Elisabeth von Leiningen of Königsfelden (Switzerland)
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As
Abbess of the Chapter, she was Lady of possessions in Aargau, Swabia and Alsace, but did
apparently not have the dignity of Princess. |
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1356-57 Regent Princess Caima Cam Todorita Bals of Moldova
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Bogodan was The Gospotar - ruler - of the principality of Moldova
(1356-74). |
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1356-60 Sovereign Countess Isabella de Brienne
of Brienne, Lecce and
Conversano, Dame de Ramerupt and Titular Duchess of
Athens, Claimant of the Kingdom of Jerusalem et cetera (France, Italy and Greece) |
After brother, Gautier de Brienne, was killed in the battle by
Poitiers, she and her husband, Gautier IV d'Enghien, Seigneur de
Tubize et Lembeek, the family possessions in France and Italy. She was
the only daughter of Duke Gautiers V de Brienne and Jeanne de
Châtillon, who had ruled the Duchy in 1311. She divided her numerous
possessions among her numerous sons during her lifetime, and 1384 her
granddaughter, Maria d'Enghien inherited some of the possessions.
Isabella lived (ca.1300/05-60). |
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1356-58 Sovereign Countess Clara von Freiburg of Freiburg,
Lady
of Lichteneck und Nimburg (Germany) |
Only daughter and heir of Count
Friedrich von Freiburg and Anna von Baden. She succeeded her father,
but resigned the county after two years of succession-war with her
uncle, Egino IV. Married to Gottfried II von Tübingen, Count Palatine
of Böblingen. She lived (circa 1320-68). |
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1356-79 Princess-Abbess Margarethe I von Grünenberg of
Säckingen (Germany)
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Her election ended in a draw but she was inagurated by the Bishop of
Konstantz after the resignation of the other candidate, Anna von
Brandis. 1356 she agreed not to sell any possessions of the Chapter
without the accept of the other canonesses. The
new Gothic church of the city was inaugurated 1360 and she mended
the relationship between Glarus and Säckingen in 1373. She was
possibly daughter of Freiherr Johann I von Grünenberg and Clementia
von Sigau. Her brother, Mark, was Abbot of Einsiede (1364-76). |
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1356-57 Reigning Abbess
Judenta von Hohenfels of Wald,
Lady
of the Offices of Wald, Vernhof and Ennigerloh (Germany) |
Member of the family of Counts of Hohenfels in Bavaria. |
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1357-84 Sovereign Countess Adelheid von Wittgenstein (Germany) |
Succeeded her brother, Werner IV, the last male of the
family and together with her husband, Salentin von Sayn-Homburg,
they founded the new line, and he used the title of Count von Sayn
zu Wittgenstein from 1361. He descended from the Counts of Sayn, who
owned the Offices and Lordships of Hachenburg and Altenkirchen, and
his father inherited Homburg from his mother. |
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1357-58 Countess Abbess Ermengard zu Waldeck-Schwalenberg of
Gandersheim (Germany) |
Also known as Ermengardis, she was first a nun at Mariensee, and later succeeded her sister,
Jutta, who ruled in Gandersheim 1331. |
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1357-61 Reigning Abbess Margaretha I Gösslin von Altenburg of
Niedermünster in Regensburg (Germany) |
Gössl is a town near Salzburg in Austria, not far from Regensburg in
Bavaria. |
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1358-61 Titular Lady Isabel de Lara of Vizcaya and Lara (Spain) |
Succeeded her sister, Juana I, as sovereign Lady, but Pedro I de Castilla
usurped the territory 1358-66, when her brother-in-law became Sovereign Lord.
Isabel was married to Infant Juan of Aragon, Lord of Elche (d. 1358). And like her sister, she
was murdered and lived (circa 1335-61). |
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1358...Sovereign Princess Tommasa Orsini-Angelo-Comneni of
Tessaglia (Italy) |
Confirmed as Princess the year after her father was assassinated.
She was daughter of Niceforo II, Despot of Epiros and Tessaglia, Count
of Cefalonia and Zante, Governor of Aenos and Maria Cantacuzena of
Byzantine. Married to Prince Simeon Uros of Serbia (d. 1371). |
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1358-62 Reigning Dowager Duchess Agnethe von Sagan of Brieg and
Ohlau (Brzeg-Olawa)
(At the time Germany, now
Poland) |
Also known as Agnieszka, she was daughter of Duke Henryk II Wierny of
Żagań (Sagan) and Matilda of Bavaria. Her first husband, Duke Leszek
of Racibórz died in 1336, and between 1341 and 1345 she married Duke
Ludwig von Brieg (Ludwik I of Brzeg), who gave her half of his land
and cities as her dowry in 1358. With Ludwig she had 6 children:
Henryk, Wacław, Małgorzata, Jadwiga, Katarzyna and another daughter.
She lived
(1312/1321-1362). |
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1358-70 Co-ruler Duchess Agnes von Lichtenberg of Münsterberg (Ziębice) (At
the time Germany, now Poland)
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Also known as Agnieszka, she ruled in the Slesian Principality
together with her sons Bolesław II (1358-1410) and Henryk II (1358-circa
66/85) after the death of her husband, Mikołajs. Mother of 5 children.
(d.
1370). |
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1358-98 Princess-Abbess Beatrix von Wohlhusen of Fraumünster,
Dame of Zürich (Switzerland) |
1373 she approved the second "Sworn letter of Zürich" (Dem Zweiten
Geschwornen Brief Zürichs) that limited the powers of the mayor of
Zürich after the rein of the Brunschen. |
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1359-62
Reigning Abbess
Elisabeth von Reischach
of Wald,
Lady
of the Offices of Wald, Vernhof and Ennigerloh (Germany) |
Several members of her family were heads of the chapter. |
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1359-64 (†) Regent Dowager Grand Duchess Aleksandra of Russia,
Moscow, Vladimir and Kiev |
Ruled in the name of son, Dimitri IV Donskoď (or Donskoy), who
succeeded his grandfather, Ivan II (1353-59) She (d. 1364). |
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1359-63 Sovereign Countess Marie I de Bourbon of Vestitza
(Greece)
1364 Governor of Kephallenia and Corfu (Greek Island States)
1364-70 Sovereign Princess of Achaia and Queen of
Thessalonica (Greece) |
Daughter of Louis I de Bourbon and Marie d’Avesnes of Hainault,
and succeeded the Baronesses Agnes and Guillermetta (Wilhelmina).
First married to Guido de Lusignan, Prince von Galilaea (d. 1346) and
secondly to the son of Catherine II de Valois, Robert II. d'Anjou,
Titular Emperor of Byzantine and Prince of Achaia (1333-64), whom she
succeeded as Princess of Achaia.
She sold the Baronies of
Vostitza and Nivelet to Nerio Acciaiulo,
Duke of Athens and Vicar-General in Corinth.
Mother of one son, Hugo de Lusignan
(circa 1335- 1385/86) and two daughters, and lived (1315-87). |
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1359-1402 Countess Abbess Luitgard III zu Hammerstein of
Gandersheim (Germany) |
Also known as Lutgard.
During her reign the chapter became more and more under the influence
of the Dukes of Braunschweig |
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1360-78 Sovereign Countess Mahaut de Châtillon of Saint-Pôl
(France) |
Daughter of Jean de Châtillon (1292-1334) and succeeded brother, Gui
(d. 1360). She was married to Guy de Ligny and Charles de France,
Count de Valois et cetera.
And lived (1293-1358). |
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Before 1360
Regent Al
Udar al-Karimah
Shihaab ad Din Salaah of Yemen |
In charge of the government
during the absence of her son, Sultan Sayf al-Islam al-Mujahid ‘Ali
ibn al-Mu‘ayyad Hizbir al-Din Da’ud,
who reigned 1322-63, on warfare in Egypt (at a time not known to me).
During her reign she built schools and mosques, established both
internal security, justice and administrative order. Is also said to
have gone secretly from house to house of the
poor, seeking to learn their needs and giving them generous gifts.
The translation of her title is Vice-Regent, Lordly Lady of Piety,
Goodness, Sharp Intelligence, Decisive Resolve, Calm Forbearance, and Supreme
Political Acumen Patroness of Scholars and Upright Men of Religious Piety
Champion of the Poor and Needy, and she (d. 1360). |
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1360-70 Princess-Abbess Irmgard I von Broich of Essen (Germany) |
Her
family was first mentioned in 1093 under the nobleman Burkhard von
Broich, who renovated the castle that was built around 880. Her family
inhabited the Castle in Mülheim an der Ruhr until the main line died
out. at the beginning of the 16th century. |
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Around
1360
Princess-Abbess
Margaretha
of the Royal Chapter St. Georg at the Hradschin in Prauge (Czech
Republic) |
The Abbess of was named Princess-Abbess in 1348 with the right to
crown the Queens of Bohemia. |
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1361-1405 De facto Co-Ruler Duchess Anna of Ratibor (Racibórz)
(Poland) |
In effect joint ruler with her husband, prince Jan of Racibórz,
and after his death in 1380/82; she stayed in power as Co-ruler with
her son Jan II. Daughter of prince Heinrich V of Głogów-Żagań and Anna
of Płock, mother of 3 children, and lived (before 1350-after 1405).
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Until after 1361 Heiress Hedwig of the Wildgrafschaft Dhaun und
Grimace (Germany) |
Married to Rheingraf Johann I vom Stein and Gerlach von Brunsholm and
Gerlach von Brunshorn - and the foremother of the Salm-Dhaun family. |
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1361 Reigning Abbess
Heilwig von Bentheim
of Herford
(Germany) |
Succeeded Ludgard II von Bicken, who
died in 1360, but was only in office for a short while. |
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1361-74 Reigning Abbess Elisabeth I von dem Berge of Herford
(Germany) |
Her surname
also seems to have been spelled v.d. Berghe. |
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1361-67
Reigning Abbess-General
Leonor
Rodríguez Barba
of
the Monastery of Santa Maria la Real de Las Huelgas in Burgos (Spain)
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Her
full titulature was "noble lady, the superior, prelate, and lawful
administratrix in spirituals and temporals of the said royal abbey,
and of all the contents, churches, and hermitages of its filiation, of
the villages and places under its jurisdiction, seigniory, and
vassalage, in virtue of Bulls and Apostolical concessions, with
plenary jurisdiction, privative, quasi-episopal, nullius diacesis." |
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1361-65 Reigning Abbess Margaretha II Punzinger of
Niedermünster in Regensburg (Germany) |
Member of a Bavarian noble family who lived in and around Regensburg. Perhaps her surname
was Pinzingerin and in that
case she was the second of her family to be head of the chapter and
territory. |
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1361-65
Reigning Abbess Jeanne I de Frolois of the Royal Abbey of Jouarre
(France) |
Cousin of the de Noyers' Abbesses. Perhaps her sister Alix was also Abbess. |
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1362-71 Sovereign Duchess Fiorenza I Sanduro of Naxos et de
L'Archipel (Greek Island State) |
After she succeeded her
father,
Giovanni I (1341-61),
Venice vetoed her potential second husbands, first the Genoese lord of Chios, then Nerio Acciaiuoli future Duke of Athens, anxious to increase its
influence over the duchy by arranging a suitable match for her. She was
kidnapped by Venetian agents, taken to Crete and blackmailed into marrying her
cousin Niccolo Sanudo as her second husband, and he was granted the title Duke
on his marriage and after her death, he continued to govern the duchy as avogier
on behalf of her son by her first husband, She had first been married to
Giovanni dalle Carceri, Lord of Euboea (d. 1358), Niccolo II dalle Carceri, who
was murdered in 1383. She
(d. 1271). |
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1362-75 Princess-Abbess Elisabeth I von Hackeborn of Quedlinbug
(Germany) |
Daughter
of Edlen Albrecht von H. and Countess Richza von Schrapelau. (d. 1375) |
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1362-1400 Princess-Abbess Agnes von Wildenberg of Schänis
(Switzerland)
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She
sold the church treasure of Nuolen, a parish within her jurisdiction.
Reached a compromise with the canonesses about the incomes from
Benken. The
area was under the overlorship of the Habsburg until 1388 when they
lost the majority of the possessions in the Schänis Area. Daughter of
Freiherr Heinrich II von Wildenberg. |
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From 1362 Hulufira Nilüfer Valide Sultan of Anatolia and Rumalia (Turkey) |
After the death of her husband, Sultan Orkhan Ghazi, she became
Sultana Valide during the reign of her son, Sultan Murad Hudavendigar
Han. According to some sources she had acted as regent during the
military campaigns of her husband, whom she married in 1299. She was
daughter of the Bey of Yarhisar (b. 1283). |
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1364-84
Reigning Dowager Lady Rikardis
Schwerin-Wittenburg of the Island of Als med Sřnderborg with several
shires in Southern Jutland (Sřnderjylland) in Slesvig (Denmark) |
Widow of Valdemar 3, who was King of Denmark
1326-30 and Duke of Slesvig 1325- 26 and 1330-64. He was 11 years
old when the Council of the Realm chose him as successor of the
deposed King
Christoffer 7, with his mother's brother, Count Gert 3. von Holsten-Rendsborg
as regent. This led to civil war and peasent's uprisings, and
Christoffer was reinstated and Valdemar became Duke of Slesvig. She
was mother of two sons, Valdemar (circa 1338– 60) and Henrik who
inherited the duchy. She (d. circa 1384). |
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Until 1364 Burgravine Isabeau D'Antoing, Heiress of Antoing (Belgium) |
Also known as Isabelle, she was married Infant Alfonso of Castilla e
León, de la Cerda, Lord de Lunel, Governor de Languedoc (1310-27).
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1364-70 Countess Isabelle de
Pierrepont
of Roucy (France) |
Succeeded father,
Robert II and married to Louis de Namur. 1370 she sold the County to
Louis d'Anjou en 1370, but his uncle started a process, and after a
process which lasted 20 years, the Parlement de Paris judged in her
favour. |
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1364-75 Co-Sovereign Princess Catharina Michieli of Keos (Greek
Island-State) |
Together with sister she succeeded father, who came from a Venetian
family. |
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1364-75 Co-Sovereign Princess Angelina Michieli of Keos (Greek
Island-State) |
Also known as Kea. With the fall of Constantinople to the Franks,
Michael Akominatos, the Metropolitan of Athens, took refuge on the
island in the monastery of Prodomos where he stayed until he died. The
island was captured by the Venetians and recaptured by the Byzantines
in 1278. In 1296 it fell to the Venetians again and built a castle on
the ancient acropolis of Ioulis. The two sisters were succeeded by
Maria da Coronia. |
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1365-90 Queen Regnant Nyilak of Alur (Uganda) |
Succeed her father, king Kyebambe (circa 1330-65), as ruler of the
kingdom in mountainous Alur Region. She married Opodhu and mother of
Nyipir (Giipir) (1390-1450). |
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1365-68 In Charge of the Government Queen Leonor de Gandia de
Aragón of Cyprus, Titular Queen Consort of Jerusalem (Israel)
1369 Co-Regent of Cyrus |
Her
husband, Pierre I de Lusignan, who had been away on various
expeditions since 1365, returned to Cyprus in 1368, he retaliated on
the nobles who had been her favourites during his absence, and behaved
with such haughtiness and tyranny that he alienated the sympathy of
his barons and even of his brothers. In January 1369 a body of nobles
assassinated him with the concurrence of his brothers. His son Pierre,
a boy of thirteen, succeeded to the throne under the regency of his
uncles, Jean, prince of Antiochia, and Jacques, constable of Cyprus.
She quarrelled with both of them, who had both been concerned in the
assassination of her husband. She first welcomed the invaders as a
means of avenging the murder of her husband, but when she saw that the
Genoese were bent on destroying her son's kingdom, she joined the
other royalists and took refuge with Jacques, the constable of Cyprus,
in the Kyrenia castle. It was not until 1374 her son was reinstated on
the throne. She lived (1333-1416) |
|
1365-91 Reigning Abbess Elisabeth III zu Rhein of Niedermünster
in Regensburg (Germany) |
Member of a noble Bavarian family, with alternative versions of the
name being von Rain, von Rhein or zu Rhein. |
|
1365-75 Reigning Abbess Jeanne II de Noyers of the Royal Abbey of Jouarre
(France) |
Former Treasurer of the chapter. |
|
1365-77 Abbess Nullius Constanza
II da Bari of the Royal Convent of Saint Benedetto in Conversano,
Temporal and Secular Ruler of Conversano (Italy) |
Among
the many privileges she enjoyed was that of
appointing her own vicar-general through whom she governed her abbatial
territory; that of selecting and approving confessors for the laity; and that of
authorizing clerics to have the cure of souls in the churches under her
jurisdiction. |
|
1365-77 Co-Sovereign Countess Petronelle de Thouars of Dreux
(France) |
Also known as
Perenelle de Thouars, she was daughter of Jeanne II
(1309/9-46-54/5) and succeeded her brother, Simon,
jointly with two sisters. In 1377 the three sisters sold the County to
the king of France. She was first married to
Amaury de Craon
(d. 1373) and secondly to Clément Rouault (d. 1397) . She
(d. 1397). |
|
1365-77 Co-Sovereign Countess Marguerite de Thouars of Dreux
(France) |
First married to Thomas
de Chemille and secondly to Guy Turpin, seigneur de Crisse, she (d. 1404). |
|
1365-77 Co-Sovereign Countess Isabeau de Thouars of Dreux
(France) |
Ruled jointly with two sisters and married to
Guy de Nesles (d. 1352),
Ingelger d'Amboise and finally to Guillaume d'Harcourt (d 1400). |
|
1365-73 Politically Active Queen Maria of Lesser Armenia |
In
1372 she send Pope Gregory XI a letter requesting military help
against the Moslems. The following year her husband, King Constantine
V, was murdered, and the Pope wanted Marie to marry Otto of
Braunschweig. In 1374 Levon VI was crowned king of Cillician Armenia
or Armenia Minor. Her background is not known. |
|
1365-1418 Sovereign Countess
Marguerite de Joinville of Vaudémont
(France) |
Succeeded father, Henri V and first married to
Jean I de Châlon, seigneur de Montagu, secondly to
Pierre, comte de Genčve and finally to Ferry I de Lorraine
(1368-1415). She lived (1354-1418). |
|
1365-87
Reigning Abbess Isabelle II de Ghistelle of Bourbourg,
Lady of Oxelaere,
Noordpeene, Faumont and Coutiches (France) |
Member of a Belgian seigneurial family. |
|
1366-92 Sovereign Princess Juliana Rurikova of Vitebsk
(Belarus) |
At
the time of Vitebsk was a principality within Lithuania. She was
succeeded by Jogaila Wladyslaw Gediminas. |
|
1366-71 Regent Khanum Beng Shi of China |
For
the pretender Ming Sheng of the Yuan Dyasty. |
|
1366-67, 1383 and 1391-93 Regent
Countess Bona de Borbone of Savoia, Moriana Chablais, Aosta, Ivrea, Susa, Baugé, Romont, Faucigny, Vaud,
Gex, Nice and Geneva (Italy, France and Switzerland) |
Also known as Bonne de Bourbon, she was
first in charge of the government when her husband, Count Amedeo VI
of Savoy during his absence on crusade. He then desingated her as
regent for their son, Count Amedeo VII, in 1383, who in his turn had
desingated her as regen for his son Amedeo VIII in 1391, which led
to a dispute with her daughter-in-law, Bonne de Berry, and she
renounced her role in May 1395 and retired to Mâcon. She was
daughter of Duke Pierre
I de Bourbon and Isabella de Valois. She lived (1341-1402). |
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Around 1366-74 Princesse-Abbesse Eléonore de Châlon of
Remiremont, Dame of Saint Pierre and Metz (France) |
As
sovereign of the territory she had the right to choose the mayor of
Remiremont from a list proposed by the nobles of the city. The mayor's
deputy, the Grand Eschevin, was chosen by the mayor from a list of 3
candidates presented by the bourgeois of the city with her advice. She
was the 10. child of John II de Châlon and Alix de Bourgogne. There is
a gap in the list of sovereigns of the Abbey until 1501. |
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Around
1367-74..
Princess-Abbess Elisabeth
of the Royal Chapter St. Georg at the Hradschin in Prauge (Czech
Republic) |
Mentioned
in a number of documents together with the Prioress Bohunka and custrix Agnes. In 1370
Agnes is Prioress and in 1374 Dorothea is Prioress |
|
1367-80
Reigning
Abbess-General Estefanía
de la Fuente Almexía
of
the Monastery of Santa Maria la Real de Las Huelgas in Burgos (Spain)
|
Both temporal and secular ruler of vast territories in Castilla and
Leon. |
|
Circa
1368-79 Queen Ehuatl-Ycetzin of Quauhtitlan (Mexico)
|
Ruled the Aztec state in Central Mexico. |
|
1368 Brhat Pada
Samdach Sdach Brhat Rajangsa Brhat
Parama Lambangasa Rajadhiraja Nang Keo Lot Fa Kaeng Kangya of
Lan-Xang (Laos) |
Her
husband, Samdach Brhat Agna Fa Ladhuraniya Sri Sadhana Ganahudha
Maharaja Brhat Rajadharana Sri Chudhana Negara, was King of Lan Xang
(1353-71) until he was deposed. She was a fervant Buddhist, and,
according to Siamese sources daughter of the King Sri Chandraratta of
Cambodia (d. 1368) |
|
1368-71 Regent Dowager Duchess Agnes von Braunschweig-Lüneburg
of Pommern-Stettin (Poland) |
After the death of her husband she took over the regency for her three
sons; the joint Dukes of Pommern-Stettin: Kasimir IV (circa 1351-72),
Swantibor I (circa 1351-1413) and Bogislaw VII (circa 1355-1404).
She was daugther
of Heinrich II. von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen and his first wife Jutta
von Brandenburg, and lived (1318-71). |
|
1368-92 Hereditary Countess Agnes von Habsburg of Fürstenburg
und Schweidnitz (Austria) |
Succeeded husband, Bolko II, and after her death, the country went to
Bohemia. |
|
1368-84
Reigning Dowager Lady
Dowager Countess Mechtild von Geldern of the Linner
Land (Burg Linn bei Krefeld) in Berg (Germany) |
First married to Godert von Leon, Herr
von Millen und Eyck and secondly to Johann I Graf von Kleve, and
appointed Amtmann Heinrich von Stünkede to take care of her
interests. She lived (circa 1325-84) |
|
1368-81 Territorial Countess Philippa Plantagenet of Ulster
(United Kingdom) |
Only child of Lionel of Antwerp, 1st
Duke of Clarence and Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster,
whom she succeeded as 5th Countess in 1468. Her father was the
second son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault,
and therefore she was heiress presumptive from 1477 to her cousin
until her own death, she married Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March
(circa 1351-81) in about 1368. As a result of her seniority in the
line of succession to the throne of the Kingdom of England and her
marriage into the powerful Mortimer family, her descendants
eventually succeeded to the throne as the House of York under Edward
IV. She lived (1355–82). |
|
1368-69 Reigning Abbess
Judel of Wald,
Lady
of the Offices of Wald, Vernhof and Ennigerloh (Germany) |
In the 14th Century the chapter and its vast possessions was under the
Stewardship of Württemberg which also held the higher juridstiction. |
|
1368-98 Politically Influential Empress Ma of China |
Also known as Xiao
He, she assisted her husband, Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, in both his
military activities, the management of his household and the decisions
he made in institutional matters and in managing his civil and
military subordinates. She influenced his decisions on a wide range of
issues from the punishment of senior officials and merchants whom he
suspected of treason to the treatment of prisoners forced to do corvee
labour. She took a personal interest in the welfare of the students at
the National University at Nanjing, and sponsored the setting up of
the “Red Plank Granary” to dispense grain as part of a stipend for the
students and their families. |
|
1369/73-82 Sovereign Countess Jeanne de Bourbon of Lyonnais et Forez (France) |
In 1350 she married
king Charles V of France (1338-64-80). His reign was marred by the
Hundred Years' War, but Charles' army scored some victories and
defeated the army of the King of Navarre. He declined to be drawn into
a crusade. Nonetheless, dissatisfaction with his rule was such that at
one point the Mayor of Paris, Etienne Marcel, led a revolt against
Charles that forced the king to flee the city. A strong supporter of
the arts, Charles had the Louvre restored and improved and in 1367
created the first royal library in France. Mother of three children,
and lived (1338-78). |
|
1369-1403 Princesse-Abbesse Jeanne II d'Aigremont of Remiremont
(France) |
In 1371 an act stated that there were 21 ladies in residence. Her long reign
contributed to the development and stability of the chapter. She was member
of a noble family from present day's Belgium. |
|
1369-94 Claimant to the Throne and Titular Queen Constanza of Castilla
(Spain) |
Daughter of King Pedro I of Castilla and Léon, who was murdered in
1369. Since her brother had died in 1362 and her sister was a nun, she
and her husband since 1371, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, perused
the throne of her father, though unsuccessfully.
Their
only son died as an infant and their only daughter, Catalina de
Lancaster (1372-1418), married King Enrique III of Castile (1379–1406)
of the Trastamara line and was regent 1406-18.
Constanza lived (1354-94). |
|
1370-75, 1376-77 and 1378-79 Regent Dowager Queen Elżbieta
Łokietkówna of Poland and Dalmatia |
As
regent Queen Elisabeth or Erszébet had the official title Regina
Senioris Poloniae and 1370-80, she was in fact joint ruler with her
son, Louis d'Anjou of Hungary, and officially appointed regent during
his stays in Hungary after he inherited the kingdom after her brother,
Kazimierz III of Poland (1309-33-70). She had already been very
influential since he succeeded her husband, Karol Robert, as king of
Hungary in 1342. She had gained the upper hand at court and for
several decades she acted as a sort of co-regent, and even the
Hungarian barons were afraid of her. She was a fanatical catholic and
founded countless religious churches and convents. Of her 7 children,
the second son, Andreas married his cousin, Joanna I of Napoli and was
Duke of Calabria until he was murdered by his wife in 1345. She lived
(1305-80). |
|
1370-81
Sovereign Lady Juana Mauel II of Vizcaya, Villena, Escalona, Penafiel
and Lara
(Spain) |
Had succeeded her niece Blanca, as Lady of Villena, Escalona y Penafiel in 1361 and succeeded Tello of Castilla in Vizcaya,
who was the husband of her brother's daughter, Juana Núńez de Lara I, as seńora
soberana. Juana II
was married to King Enrique II of Castile (1333-79) and after her death, the
Basque Country was incorporated into Castilla and later Spain. She
was daughter of She was the daughter of
the Infante Juan Manuel of Castile (1282-1349) and his second wife
Blanca Núńez de Lara de La Cerda, mother of several children, and
lived (1339-81). |
|
1370-73 Khanum Regnant Tulun Beg of the Golden Horde in Russia
and Serbia |
Member of the Ak Urdu Dynasty and followed Mohammed Buluq-Khan,
who only ruled in 1370 and died 1379. She was succeeded by Arab Shaykh
of the Arab Shaykh Dynasty. The Golden Horde was the Western division
of the Mongol Empire, subject to the Great Khans at Karakorum, and
ruling most of Russia. |
|
1370-1412 Princess-Abbess Elisabeth III von Nassau of Essen
(Germany) |
After her election she created uproar by demanding that the City
Council and Citizen should pay homage to her according to an old custom that
had been forgotten. In 1372 she had sovereign status of the Chapter as
a Realm in the Empire was confirmed and in 1399 she and the city
agreed on a settlement on the distribution of powers. Daughter of
Johann von Nassau-Hadamar and Elisabeth von Wied. She (d. 1413). |
|
1370-83 County Sheriff Helene Olufsdatter Lunge of the County of Bjernedegĺrd with Stormandsgĺrden, Denmark |
Helene Lunge was widow of Evert Moltke, she followed her husband as holder of the tenantcy appointed by the Bishop of Roskilde (Bispelensmand). She lived (circa 1540-83). |
|
1370-80 Politically Influential Saint Catherine of Siena in
France and Italy |
An
Italian mystic and diplomat, a member of the third order of the
Dominicans. In 1370 she began to take part in the public life of her
time in response to a vision, sending letters to the great of the day.
She went to Avignon and exerted decisive influence in inducing Pope
Gregory XI to end the “Babylonian captivity” of the papacy and return
to Rome in 1376. She helped bring about peace between the Holy See and
Florence, which had revolted against papal authority. In the Great
Schism, she supported the Roman claimant, Pope Urban VI, and worked
vigorously to advance his cause. She also advocated a crusade against
the Muslims. In 1375 she is supposed to have received the five wounds
of the stigmata, visible only to herself until after her death. She
became the centre of a spiritual revival and a formidable family of
devoted followers gathered around her. Though she never learned to
write, she dictated hundreds of letters and a notable mystic work,
commonly called in English The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena or
A Treatise on Divine Providence. She was canonized in 1461 and
declared a Doctor of the Church in 1970. The daughter of Giacomo
Benincasa, a Sienese dyer, Catherine from early childhood had mystic
visions and practiced austerities; she also showed the devotion to
others and the winning manner that characterized her life. At age 16
she entered the Dominican order as a tertiary and lived at home, and
lived (1347-80). |
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1371-79 Sovereign Duchess Mechtild of Gelders and Zutphen
1372-79 Countess of Zutphen, Regent of Over- en Neder
Betuwe, de Bommeler en Telewaarden en de Veluwe (The Netherlands) |
After her brother, Reinhald III's death she was declared Duchess in
her own right by the States of Gelders, but was deposed. She continued
to reign as Countess of Zutphen until she was deposed by her nephew in
1377, but did not resign the titles until 1379. Married to Count
Godfried van Looz en Chiney (d. 1342), count Johan I von Kleve. (d.
1368) and Jean de Châtillon, then count of Blois. She lived (circa
1325-84). |
|
1371-1402 Reigning Abbess Anna II von Rüssegg of Buchau
(Germany) |
Her
background is not clear and other versions of her name are Ruseck,
Rünsegg or Riinseck. She was elected 25.7.1371 and inaugurated by the
bishop of Konstanz at 5.9. |
|
Around
1371 Reigning Abbess Anna I von Goldenberg of Königsfelden (Switzerland)
|
Her
family had been lords of Mörsburg since 1363 and remained in charge of
the castle until 1569 when the Lords von Hallwyl auf Hegi took over.
In 1587 Zürich bought the stewardship. |
|
1371-72
Sovereign Countess Jeanne de Vendôme
of
Vendôme and
Castres (France) |
Just an infant, she succeeded her
father, Bouchard VII de Vendôme (1345-64-71), and since her mother,
Isabelle de Bourbon, had died in
childbed, she reigned under the regency of her grandmother, Jeanne de Ponthieu,
but died after a few months. Succeeded by aunt, Catherine. Lived (1371-72). |
|
1371-72
Regent Dowager Countess Jeanne de Ponthieu
of Vendôme
and Castres
(France) |
After the death of her son, Bouchard VII
de Vendôme, she was regent for her granddaughter, Jeanne de Vendôme
until her death after a year. She was widow of Jean VI de Vendôme,
comte de Vendôme (1354-64) and her daughter, Catherine de Vendôme took
over as ruler in 1372. She (d. 1376). |
|
1372-1412 Sovereign Countess Catherine de Vendôme of Vendôme and Castres
(France) |
Succeeded her niece, Jeanne, and reigned jointly with husband, Jean
VII de Bourbon-La Marche, Count de La Marche until his death in 1393.
He was the brother of Isabelle de Bourbon, who was married to her
brother, Bouchard. Her son
Louis I was count (1403-15).
Catherine (d.
1412). |
|
1372-83 Titular Duchess Maria of Gelders and Zutphen (The
Netherlands) |
Fourth daughter of Reinald II and Sofia de Berthout van
Mecheln, Countess of Mecheln. She married to Duke Willem II/VI of
Jülich (d. 1393), and was a contestant for the title after the death
of her brother, Reinald III. Her sister Mechtild was also declared
Duchess, but Maria's side prevailed and her son, Willem III, was named
duke by the Holy Roman Emperor, Karl IV in 1372. Maria's daughter,
Johanna, was heiress to the Duchy of Gelders.
Maria (d. 1397). |
|
1372-89 Dowager Princess Milica Eugenia Vratkovic of Rudnik
(Serbia)
1389-97 De-facto Ruler |
Regent for son Stefan Lazarevic both during his minority and when he
came of age. She was very wise and tactical in the difficult times
during the Turkish invasion. |
|
1372-1416 Sovereign Countess Anne d'Auvergne of Lyonnais et
Forez (France) |
The daughter of Béraud II, dauphin
d'Auvergne (1333-99) and Jeanne de Forez and
succeeded her maternal uncle, Jean II, as Countess of Forez, and was married to Louis II duc de Bourbon, Count de Forez and Prince de
Dombes (1337-1410). She lived (1358-1416). |
|
1373-94 Joint Sovereign Countess Isabelle of
Neuchâtel (Switzerland) 1375-94 Sovereign Countess of Neuchâtel
and Cerlier, Dame de Vercel, Genz, Dandans, Flangebouche,
Vernier-Fontaines, Baclains, Ballaigue,de Vuillafans-le-Neuf, de la
garde du Val de Morteau, Vannes, Balm, de Lugnorre, Jorissens
and Provence |
When her father, Louis I de Neuchatel
died, she inherited his possessions, jointly with her sister,
Varenne, but she managed to take over the whole county. Since
she did not have any children with her two husbands: Count Rodolphe IV
de Nidau and Jacques de Vergy, seigneur d'Autrey, she was succeeded by
her nephew, son of her sister Varenne.
She lived (circa 1535-93) |
|
1373-75 Joint Soverign Countess Varenne of Neuchâtel
(Switzerland) 1373-80 Baroness du
Landeron |
Inherited the county jointly with her sister, who
managed to take over most of the territory after a few years.
whose son, Conrad IV de Fribourg, called "de Furstemberg", inherited
the county. Her daughter, Anna von Freiburg (1374-1427) was married to
Rudolf III Von Baden-Hachberg von Zähringen and their grandson,
Rodolphe IV de Hochberg, became Count of Neuchatel in 1458. She lived
(1359 - 1380) |
|
1373 Reigning Abbess Adélaďde de Ventadour of the
Royal Abbey of Fontevraud (France) |
The
chapter was one of the wealthiest in Europe. |
|
1373-93 Reigning Abbess Eléonore II de Parthenay of the
Royal Abbey of Fontevraud (France) |
Held the office of
Abbess of St-Jean de Bonneval-lčs-Thouars before she came to
Fontevraud. She was daughter of Jean I, sire de Parthenay, de St-Christophe
et de Semblançay, gouverneur de Saintonge and Marie de Beaujeu (Forez). |
|
Until 1374 Princess-Abbess Agnes I von Munebach of Obermünster
in Regensburg (Germany) |
The
dates of the reigns of her two predecessors are not known, but she was
followed by Adelheid von Aerenbach, Katharina I von Murach as head of
the Territory of the Realm. |
|
1374-1400 Princess-Abbess Elisabeth I von Parsberg of
Obermünster in Regensburg (Germany) |
1315 Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian appointed the Abbess as Princess of
the Realm. Heinrich II granted the Chapter immunity and during the
reign of Konrad II, the abbess even received a royal sceptre. |
|
1374-1400 Countess-Abbess Adelheid IV von Walde of
Gernrode and Frose
(Germany) |
A
member of the family of the Lords of Walde. |
|
1374-1409 Reigning Abbess Hildgund von Oetgenbach of Herford
(Germany) |
Head of the large Benedictine convent in northwestern Germany,
just north of the Teutoburger Wald. The establishment was granted
Princely status in the 12th century, with a seat on the Imperial Diet.
Aside from the convent, the town of Herford was an Imperial Free City
and a member of the Hanseatic League. |
|
1374-83 Reigning Abbess Irmengard von Hohenberg of Königsfelden
(Switzerland) |
Member of the ancient Countly family of Zollern-Hohenberg in
Swabia. |
|
Circa 1375-circa 1400 Queen Regnant Kukaniloko of Oahau in Hawai'i (USA) |
11th Alii Aimoku - and the first Mo'iwahine or supreme female
ruler because her father, Piliwale, had chosen her as his successor rather
than let the position fall to a male of junior lineage. She married Luaia, the great-great-grandson of Hanalaa, the 4th Alii Aimolu of
Maui, and was succeeded by daughter, Kalaimanuia. |
|
1375-93 Sovereign Countess Blanche de France of Valois (France) |
Succeeded husband Philippe (1344-75). She was daughter of King Charles
IV, and lived (1328-92). |
|
1375-1426 Countess Alix de Baux of Avellino, Vicomtesse
de Turenne and Dame de Baux et cetera (France)
1404-26 Countess of Beaufort |
Reigned in
succession to her brother, Jean de Baux. She was daughter of Raymond
II de Baux, Sire de Baux, Count d'Avellino and Jeanne de Beaufort
(1351-1404), married Odon de Villars, titular Count of Geneva (d.
1413) and in 1418 she married Count Konrad IV von Freiburg und von
Neuenburg (d. 1424). She lived (circa 1367-1426). |
|
1375-... Sovereign Countess Maria da Coronia of Keos (Greece)
|
Succeeded Angelina.
|
|
1375-83 Princess-Abbess Anna IV Hundpis of Baindt (Germany) |
The first abbess to become Princesses of Empire (Fürstäbtissin or
Reichsäbtissin) in circa 1376, and thereby sovereign ruler of her
Ecclesiastical Territory with a vote in the College of the Prelates of
Swabia, whose 22 members (Abbesses and Abbots), which a joint vote in
the Council of the Princes of the Imperial Diet, where the
representative of the Prelates sat on the Ecclesiastical Bench. She
was member of the noble family of Von Hundpis, who owned castles in
Amtzell from the 14. to the 16th century. |
|
1375-83
Reigning Abbess Marguerite I de
Noyers of the Royal Abbey of Jouarre
(France) |
Succeeded by sister, Marie. |
|
1375-1403 Titular Queen Isabel of Mallorca and Ibiza,
Reigning Countess of Roussillon and Cerdeanya (Spain) |
In Catalan known as Elisabet, she was
daughter of King Jaime III of Mallorca et cetera. (1315-24-49), who was
killed fighting against the king of Aragon who had retaken Majorca
during the 1340s, labelling him as "a contumacious vassal". She
succeeded her brother, Jaime VI (husband of Queen Joanna I of Napoli
(1326-82)) to the titular dignity and lived in her family's
possessions in Southern France at Chateau de Gallargues. Her first
husband was Margrave Giovanni II of Montferrato (1313-72) and the
second Konrad von Reischach zu Jungnau. She was mother of four sons
(3 of whom became Margraves of Monferrato) and a daughter by her
first husband, and one son by the second. She
lived (1337-after 1403). |
|
1376-87 Regent Dowager Queen Margrethe I Valdemarsdatter of
Denmark and Norway
1387-1412 Reigning Queen (Master and Mistress) of Denmark,
Sweden and Norway |
Youngest daughter of King Valdemar IV of Denmark. At the age
of ten she was married to King Hĺkon VI of Norway, son of Magnus II of
Sweden and Norway. Their son Olaf, born in 1370, was elected King Olaf
II of Denmark in 1375 at the death of Margrethe's father, with her as
regent. After her husband's death shortly after her son also became
Olaf IV of Norway. After Olaf's death in 1387 the Estates in Denmark
elected her as "Full-mighty Master and Mistress of All the Real" for
life. The following year she became regent of Norway. In 1388 the
Swedish nobility dethroned their king Albrecht of Mecklenburg, and
elected Margrethe as their reigning Queen instead. She chose her
sister's daughter's son Erik of Pommerania as her successor, who
became king in 1389, but Margrethe remained the real ruler. She
founded the union of Kalmar, which in the case of Sweden would last
until 1523, and with Norway until 1814. In 1410, Margrethe tried to
reinstate Danish overlordship over Schleswig, which caused a war with
the Counts in Holstein. She travelled to the conflict area, and died
there in 1412. She lived (1353-1412). |
|
1376-1443 Sovereign Countess Marguerite of Comminges (France)
|
Married to Count Jean III d'Armagnac. |
|
1376-14.. Sovereign Lady Fiorenza Sanudo of Milos and Kimolos
(Greece Island-State) |
Succeeded father. From 1383 she reigned jointly with her sister Maria.
They were daughters of Fiorenza Sommaripa of Milos et cetera, and Jacopo I
of Naxos and of the Archipelagos, and she married Giovanni Michiel,
Co-Lord of Seriphos, and then Francesco I Crispo (+1397), Venitian
Patrician and Lord by the right of his wife of de Milos and also
inherited Naxos and the Lordships of Santhorini, Andros, Astyphalea,
Delos, Ios, Paros and Amorgos. She lived (1410-14...). |
|
1376-79 Princess-Abbess Elisabeth I von Hackeborn of
Quedlinburg (Germany) |
Daughter of Edlen Albrecht and Countess Richza von Scharpelau.
(d. 1375). |
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1377-1402 Queen Regnant Maria of Sicilia (Sicily) (Italy)
1377-79 Duchess of Athens and Neopatria and Titular Queen
of Jerusalem |
At
the age of 15 she succeeded her father, King Federico with Artale of
Alagona as regent. 1379-88 she was in-exile in Sardegna because of
civil war in Sicily. In 1390 she married Martin the Younger of Aragon
and two years later they returned together with his father, Martin the
Old, King of Aragon, and Maria received the crown by the Sicilian
Barons. As king and Queen they used the titluatures; "Nos, D. Martin, e
duenya Marya, per la gracia di Dios, roy e reyna de Sicilia, e de los
ducados de Athenes e de Neopatria duque e duquessa, e nos infante don
Martin, del mult alto D. Pedro, de buena memoria, roy d'Aragon fillo,
e per la gracia di Dios duque de Monblanc, Conte de Luna e senyor del
marquesado e de la ciutat de Sagorbe, governador general per lo mult
alt senior D.Jean, rey d'Aragon, ermano e senyor nostro muyt car, en
tut sus regnos e terras, coadjutor de la dicha reyna en lo regimento
del regno e ducados sopredichos, e padre e legitimo administrador del
dicho rey." She died without an heir, and lived (1361-1402).
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1377... Sovereign Grand Princess Juliana Rurikova of Vitebsk
(Belarus) |
Reigned in
succession to Olgerd, who was Grand Prince 1316-77 and remained in
Lithuania from 1345. Also known as Yolyana Aleksandrovna of Tver. |
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1377-88/before 94 Sovereign Countess Marie de Brienne d'Enghien
of Argos and Nauplia (Greece) |
Succeeded father Guy III de Brienne and reigned jointly with Pietro
Cornaro (d. 1388) and Pasquale Zane (d. 1392). In 1388 the county was
conquered by Venice. She (d. bf. 1394). |
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1377-1400 Sovereign Lady Herzlaude of Gross-Rappoltstein und Hohenach (Germany) |
Married to Heinrich III Graf von Saarwerden. She kept her paternal
inheritance but transferred the lordships of her husband to his
brother, the Archbishop of Köln, Friederich III von Saarwerden. She
willed her own possessions to her second husband, Count Johann I von
Lupfen-Stühlingen.
She lived (1372-1400). |
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1377-79 Princess-Abbess
Margarete von Schrapelau of Quedlinburg
(Germany) |
Her sister,
Agnes III. reigned (1354-62). Margarete (d. 1379). |
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1377-circa 88 Territorial Countess Margaret Mormaer of Mar,
Lady Garioch, Chief of the Clan of Mar in Scotland (United
Kingdom of Great Britain) |
Inherited the titles from her brother, Thomas Mormaer, 9th Earl of Mar (circa
1330-1377). She had married William, first Earl of Douglas, who was
succeeded by their son, James. 2. Earl of Douglas and Earl of Mar and
Garioch in right of his mother, and when he fell, leading the Scots at
the battle of Otterburn. he was succeeded by her daughter, Isabel, who
became owner of the Earldom of Mar and the Lordship of the Garioch and
became the owner the unentailed lands of the House of Douglas. |
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1377-85 Politically Influential
Dowager Princess Joan of Kent
of Wales in England, Hereditary Countess of Kent,
Baroness Wake de Lydell (United Kingdom) |
Her
husband, Edward, Prince of Wales died in 1376, and the following year
her son succeeded as King Richard II, who reigned under Council of
Regency until he came of age in 1390. Joan was
daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent, youngest son of Edward
I, and Margaret de Wake, 3rd. Baroness Wake of Lydell, whom she
succeeded upon her death of the plague. She early gained wide
note for her beauty and charm and became known as the Fair Maid of
Kent. Her marriage to the earl of Salisbury was annulled on the
grounds of a pre-contract with Sir Thomas Holland, whom she then
married and became mother of four children. Upon the death of her
brother in 1353 she became Countess of Kent in her own right. In 1361,
after Holland's death, she married Edward the Black Prince, by whom
she had two sons, Edward (1365–70) and Richard. In 1378 she was
instrumental in halting proceedings against John Wyclif, though there
is insufficient evidence to determine if she accepted his doctrines.
As long as she lived, she was probably the principal influence on her
son Richard II.
She lived (1328–85). |
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1379-81 Sultan Myriam Raadafati Kambadi Kilege of the Maldive
Islands |
Also known as Queen Siri Suvama Abaarana. Her sister, Sultan
Khadija, reigned three times beginning in 1337. Myriam was the last of
the Lunar Dynasty and was deposed by a Moslem cleric by the name of
Fagi Mohamed son of Kaeumani Kaulhannaa Kilege of Maakuratu, who was
succeeded by his daughter Daainu Kambaa in 1383. |
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1379/80-1422 Princess-Abbess Klaranna von Hohenklingen of
Säckingen (Germany)
|
The
territory suffered from the freedom fight of the Swiss against
Habsburg-Austria and in 1409 the she granted the cities of Säckingen
and Laufenburg as fiefs to the Duke of Austria, and thereby they came
totally under the influence of the Habsburgs, but 1417 she had King
Sigisumd confirm the rights and liberties of the chapter. She was
daughter of Freiherr Walter von der Hohenklingen, Lord zu Stein and
Countess Kunigunde von Fürstenberg, and her sister Anastasia was
Princess-Abbess of the Fraumünster 1412-29. |
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1380-1405 Princess-Abbess Irmgard II von Kirchberg of
Quedlinburg (Germany) |
1384 the City of Quedlinburg joined the
Association of Cities of Low Saxony (Niedersächsischen Städtebund). In
1396 the City Council succeeded in acquirering the Stewardship over
the Chapter from Count Ulrich von Regenstein. She was daughter of
Burggrave Albrecht von Kirchberg and Countess Elisabeth von Orlamünde.
She lived (1350-1405). |
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1380-86 Princess-Abbess Aleide II de Ligne of Nivelles,
Dame Temporaire and Spirituelle of Nivelles (Belgium) |
The
abbess of Nivelles was Princess of the Holy Roman Empire and Political
Leader of the City of Nivelles. |
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1380-96
Reigning
Abbess-General Urraca de Herrera of the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria la Real de
Las Huelgas in Burgos (Spain)
|
As Seńora Abedesa
she was also Head of the
subsidiary parishes of Bercial and Lorilla |
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1381-90 Regent Dowager Countess Katharina von Henneberg of
the
Osterland, Landsberg, Pleißnerland, Orlamünde, Kahla, Jena und
Naumburg (Saale) (Germany)
1381-97 Reigning Dowager Lady of
Coburg
and Weißenfels |
Ruled in the name of sons Friedrich, Wilhelm and Georg, who divieded
the margravates of Thüringen and Meissen with their uncles after the
death of her husband
Margrave Friederich, who had named
her as the regent in his will.
Her father
Heinrich VIII von
Henneberg-Schleusingen (d. 1347) named her heir of Coburg together with her mother Jutta von Brandenburg (d. 1453) and 3 sisters,
while the rest of the Henneberg territory went to his brother
Johann. The surviving sons, Friedrich IV (1370-1428), Wilhelm II
(1371-1425) and Georg (1380-1402) later inherited Thüringen and
Meissen from their uncles. She
lived (1334-97) |
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1381-after 98
Princess-Abbess Katharina von Truthan of
Göss bei Leoben
(Austria)
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The chapter was the only in the Austrian lands which enjoyed immunity and the status of an Imperial Immediacy. |
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1381-86 Politically Influential Queen Margherita
d'Angiň-Durazzo of Napoli (Italy)
1386-1400 Regent Dowager Queen |
Very influential during
the reign of her husband and nephew Carlo III Durazzo, who succeeded her father, Andreas of Hungary, as king and was
also king of Hungary 1386. He was killed same year and she took over
the government in the name of her son Ladislao di Durazzo (1386-1414)
who was later succeeded by his daughter, Giovanna II. Margherita was
daughter of Duke Carlo di Durazzo and the former heir to the throne of
Napels, Princess Maria of Napoli (1328-66) and her sister Giovanna,
was Duchess of Durazzo 1348-87.
She lived (1347-1412). |
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1382-85 and 1386-95 Queen Regnant Maria of Hungary, Dalmatia,
Croatia, Rama, Serbia, Galicia, Lodomeria and Cumania, Bulgaria |
Mária was crowned as rex Hungarić, and was the second of three
daughters of Louis I the Great of Hungary from the House of Angevin
(Anjou). Mary became Queen of Hungary after her father's death in 1382
(her elder sister Catherine died four years earlier). Her mother and
the Palatine Miklós Garai ruled the country. Many noblemen of Hungary
were opposed to them and they helped Charles of Durazzo (Charles III
of Naples, Charles II of Hungary) to become King of Hungary in 1385.
Sigismund to whom she was betrothed rescued her from captivity.
Sigismund took revenge on the murderers of her mother. From 1387
officially Maria and her husband were joint rulers of Hungary but in
fact he ruled alone. In 1410 Sigismund was elected Holy Roman Emperor,
two years after she married Barbara Cilli, and their daughter,
Elisabeth and her husband became Queen of King of Bohemia and Croatia-Dalmatia
in 1437. She lived circa 1372-95). |
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1382-86 Regent Dowager Queen Elisabeth of Bosnia of
Hungary |
Assumed the regency without difficulty after her husband's death, but
the political elite was divided over whom Maria should marry, She
worked for a marriage between her daughter and Louis d'Orléans of
France. The Polish nobles insisted that their ruler should reside
permanently in their kingdom. At first Elisabeth considered taking up
arms, but in March 1383 she accepted the accession of her younger
daughter, Hedwig (Jadwiga) as Queen of Poland. In August 1384 some of
the Hungarian nobles renounced their allegiance to her. She was under
threat from both Sigismund of Luxembourg - whom her husband had
designated as Maria's husband - and Carlos d'Anjou of Durazzo-Napoli,
who was offered the Hungarian throne. Elisabeth was forced to abandon
the idea of the French marriage and accepted that Maria married
Sigismund, but it was too late in December 1385 Maria abdicated and
Carlos became king, but in February the following year he was deposed,
he was wounded and died. Elisabeth again seized the reigns of power
and immediately rewarded those who had been loyal to her daughter. In
April 1386, king Wenceslas of Bohemia brought Sigismund to Hungary,
and by the Treaty of Györ the queens were forced to accept him as
prince consort. A riot had broken out in Slavonia and Elisabeth
thought that the presence of Maria would calm the situation. She was
wrong, her small army was slaughtered, and the queens were imprisoned
at the bishop of Zagreb's castle, and this marked her fall from power,
and in January 1387 Elisabeth was strangled in her prison. Elisabeth
was daughter of Stefan Kotromanić, Ban of Bosnia and Elżbieta of
Poland, and lived (ca.1340-87). |
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1382-94
Regent Dowager Countess Helena Asanina Kantakouzene of
Salona (Amphissa) (Greece) |
Also known as Helena Kantakouzena, she was regent for daughter after
the death of her husband, Louis Fadrique,
until she was killed by the Turks who had invaded the city of Salona.
She was daughter of Matthaios Asanes Kantakuzenos ex-co-Emperor of Byzantium & his wife Eirene
Palaiologina (d. 1394). |
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1382-94 Sovereign Countess Maria Fadrique de Aragón of Salona,
Burgravine of Siderokastron (Greece) |
The
daughter of Count Luis Fadrique de Aragón of Malta, Gozzo and Salona
(d. 1381/82) and Despotina Helene Asenina Cantakuzene (d. 1394), she
was engaged to Geoffroy and Bernaduc de Rocaberti, to Stefan Dukas
Nemanjic of Serbia, and to Matheu de Moncada. The Turks, under Sultan Bayezid I, besieged Salona
in early 1394. The Greek Orthodox Bishop of Salona opened the city gates to
them as he was anxious to dispossess her and her mother, whose administrative
abuses had been excessive. She was taken for the Sultan's harem, but he refused her,
and she died in prison
at Adrianople shortly after.
She lived (circa 1370-95) |
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1382-? Sovereign Dame Marie de Sully of Boisbelle-Henrichemont,
Dame de Sully et Craon (France) |
Daughter of Louis, Seigneur de Sully (d. 1382) and Isabeau, Dame de
Craon, she first married Guy VI de La Tremoille, Count de Guines in
1382. He died in Rhodesin 1398 and secondly to Sire Charles I d'Albret,
Count de Dreux, Baron de Sully, constable of France, who was killed at
Agincourt in 1415. |
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1383 Titular Queen Beatriz of Portugal |
Also known as Brites, she was married to king Juan of Castilla, and
after her father, Fernando I's death, she claimed the throne of
Portugal between 22 October and the middle of December 1383, but was deposed by the Cňrtes, who chose
her uncle as king. Her son Fernando I of Aragon and Sicily, who was married to Leonor Urraca de Castilla, Countess de Albuquerque. Beatriz lived (1372-circa
1410). |
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1383 Regent Dowager Queen Leonor Tellez de Menezes of
Portugal |
First married to Joăo Lourenço da Cunha, Lord of Pombeiro and in 1371
she married king Fernando I, which caused a war with Castilla as her
husband broke an engagement with Enrique II's daughter. During the
later years of their marriage, her husband was very ill and had to
withdraw from the government, which was left in her hands. After his
death, she was appointed regent for their daughter, Beatriz, who was
married to Juan I of Castilla. She was very unpopular because of her
pro-Castilian politics, and people did not trust the promises of
autonomy, and as she gave her lover, Juan Fernández Andeiro, Count von
Ourém, much power, she was deposed after only six weeks by a riot of
the artisans of Lisbon in favour of her husband's illegitimate
half-brother, Joăo de Avis. Mother of one son by her first husband and
two by her second, who both died as infants. She was daughter of Martim
Afonso Telo de Menezes and Aldonça Anes de Vasconcelos, and lived (circa
1350-86). |
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1383-88 Sultan Malikat Daainu Kambaa Radafati Kambadi-Kilagi of the Maldive Islands |
Also known as Fatima, she was daughter of Sultana Myriam, who was
deposed by Fagi Mohamed in 1381. Daainu was deposed by her husband who
ascended the throne as Sultan Abdulla II and reigned a month and a
half before being assassinated by Osman of Fehendu. |
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1383-1404 Judicissa Eleonora de
Capraia of Arborea and Gallura, Countess of Goceano in Sardinia
(Italy) |
Defeated
the rebels that had killed her brother, Ugone III, and she reigned as giudicessa in the name of her infant son Federigo. For the next 4 the state was at war with Aragon, which lost much of its possessions to her and was trying to reclaim the island. She obtained
almost all of the island during this war. After rallying Sardinian forces, she was able to negotiate a favourable treaty. Federigo died during this war, and was succeeded by her younger son, Mariano V. An alliance was formed with Genoa, and Arborea maintained its
independence until 1409 or 1410. She composed the Carta de Logu, a body of laws which came into force in 1395. They were considered to be far in advance of the laws of other countries, the penalty for most crimes being a fine, and the property rights of women were preserved. Many
of these laws remained in force in
Sardinia until 1713 and others until Italian unification in 1861. She was daughter of Mariano IV of Arborea and Timbora de Roccaberti, married to Brancaleone Doria, a Sardinian nobleman, in order to strengthen local alliances, and mother of a number of children. She
died of the plague and lived (circa
1347-1404). |
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1383-? Sovereign Duchess Fiorenza II Sanduro of Naxos et de
L'Archipel (Greek Island State) |
Succeeded
Niccolo II dalle Carceri, the son of her
cousin, Fiorenza, after he was murdered by her husband, Francesco Crispo, Baron
of Astrogidis in Eubśa and Duke of Naxos by the right of his wife. She had
succeeded her father, Marcolino Sanudo as Lady of Milos when he died after 1376.
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1383-1437
Sovereign Co-Baroness
Maria Crispo
of
Milos (Greece)
|
Reigned jointly with her sister, Fiorenza, whose reign began in 1376. They
were daughters of Fiorenza Sommaripa and Jacopo I of Naxos and of the
Archipelagos. Maria married Andrea Dandolo, and lived (1406-37). |
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1383-..
Sovereign Countess
Maria II Sanudo
of
The First Triarchy of Euboea
(Greece)
1389-1414 Sovereign Princess of Antipatos and Andros (Greek Island-State)
Circa
1389 Sovereign Baroness
of
Naupila |
Granted the island of Andros as a fief,
but was deprived of Andros by
Francesco Crispo who bestowed it on his son-in-law Pietro Zeno, bailie in Eubśa,
in an effort to increase his influence on the island. She was compensated by
the island of Paros on condition that she would marry Gasparo di Sommaripa. Venice
granted her 1/3 of the island of Eubśa, and here
she and Gaspar Sommarippa
reigned as heads of Parts of Euboea and
the
Barony of Naupila, an island in the central Cyclades, west of Naxos,
and south of Delos and Mykonos. Today it is known as Paros. Her descendants continuing to hold this
part under Venice until the Ottoman Turks invaded the island in 1470. She was
daughter of Duchess Fiorenza I Sanudo of
Naxos and her second husband, Niccolo Sanudo, Duke by the
right of his wife. She (d. 1426). |
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1383-92 Princess-Abbess Christina II Holbein of Baindt
(Germany) |
The
Abbey was founded 1227 it's Princess-Abbess had been Sovereign Ruler
of the Ecclesiastical Territory since around 1373. |
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1383-86/96
Reigning Abbess Marie I de
Noyers of the Royal Abbey of Jouarre
(France)
1386/90-06 Reigning Abbess of Montivilliers |
As Madame Abbesse, she exercised ecclesiastical
jurisdiction in 28 parishes in
Normandy, including Saint-Paul and Eauplet by Rouen. She (d. 1396). |
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1383-94
Reigning Abbess
Elisabeth von Hornstein of Wald,
Lady
of the Offices of Wald, Vernhof and Ennigerloh (Germany) |
Member of an ancient noble framily from Sigmaringen near Wald. |
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1384-99 Queen Jadwiga of Poland and of the Lands of Crakow,
Sandomierz, Sieradz, Leczyca, Kujawia, and
Hereditary Lady
of Pommerania
|
Her
official title was “Hedvig Rex Polonić”, and she was the youngest
daughter of king Louis of Hungary and Poland and Elizabeth of Bosnia.
She was brought up at the royal court in Buda. In 1378 she was
betrothed to Wilhelm von Habsburg and spent about a year at the
imperial court in Vienna. She was well educated and polyglot,
interested in arts, music, science and court life, and was also known
for her piety. When her father died in 1382, the Hungarian throne was
inherited by her older sister, Maria. The lords of Lesser Poland did
not want to continue the personal union with Hungary and therefore
chose her as their new monarch. After two years of negotiations with
Jadwiga's mother and a civil war in Greater Poland (1383), she finally
came to Kraków and was crowned King of Poland. As a monarch, she
probably had little actual power, but she was actively engaged in her
kingdom's political, diplomatic and cultural life. In 1387 she led a
military expedition to re-conquer the Duchy of Halych and in 1390 she
began to correspond with the Teutonic Knights. She gave much of her
wealth to charity, including foundation of hospitals; she founded the
bishopric in Vilnius and resorted the Academy of Kraków, since called
Jagiellonian University in honour of her and her husband. Her
engagement to Wilhelm of Habsburg was broken off, and instead she
married Jagiello, Gand Duke of Lithuania, in order to unite Poland and
Lithuania and to convert the Lithuanians to Christianity. She was said
to be a blonde, blue-eyed beauty, and an exhumation performed in 1976
showed that she was unusually tall for a medieval woman (180 cm). Her
only daughter, Elizabeth Bonifacia, died one month after her birth,
and Jadwiga died soon after.
She lived
(1374–99). |
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1384-1405
Sovereign Countess
Marguerite III de Mâle of
Flanders, Artois, Countess Palantine of Bourgundie (known as Franche-Comté),
Marchioness d'Anvers, Dame of Antwerpen, Mechelen and Malines (Belgium and France)
1384 Countess of
Nevers
1384-1402 Countess of Rethel,
1404 Sovereign Duchess of Brabant and Limburg |
Also known as Margaretha de Dampierre, she was daughter of Louis de Male of
Flanders - she inherited his lands and those of her grandmother,
Marguerite de France, Countess of Bourgogne and Artois, and first
married to Philippe le Hardi de Rouveres, Duke de Bourgogne, who died
after 6 months. Her second husband was Philippe, Duke de Bourbon, and
she became famous as patron of fashion, art and art crafts. She
inherited Brabant and Limburg after the abdication of her aunt,
Johanna.
Margaretha lived (1350-1405).
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1384-1414 Sovereign Countess Maria d'Enghien of Lecce (Italy)
1406-07 Sovereign Princess of Taranto
1434
Countess of Conversano
|
Her father, Giovanni d'Enghien, had received the
County of Lecce from his mother, Isabelle de Brienne, and she succeeded her brother, Pietro. A year later she was married for
political reasons to Raimondello Orsini del Balzo, Count of Soleto. It
was a serene period, during which, their government was dedicated to
commissioning architectural works and establishing, in Lecce,
“Concistorium principis”, a civil court. However the peace did not
last long, in fact in 1405 king Ladislao, worried about the power
Raimondello held, decided to invade. He was killed in 1406, and this
enabled the Princess to begin the most romantic chapter in her life.
King Ladislao tried to gain power over the city, however he had
underestimated the strength of Maria and his quest was unsuccessful.
He began to court her and tried to attain power in this way. The next
year they were married, but according to some chronicles their union
was not at all happy and she lived with the constant knowledge of his
indifference to her. Ladislao died in 1414 and his cruel sister,
Giovanna II, tried to imprison the new Queen but she was liberated by
Giacomo Della Marca. After this she returned to Lecce and passed over
power to her son, Giovanni Antonio Orsini del Balzo, and retired from
public. She
lived (1367-1446). |
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1385-91 Reigning Dowager Despotess
Komina Musaki of Valona (Vlora)
(Albania/Montenegro) |
Took over the principality after the death of her ex-husband Balsa II of Zeta. In the southern parts of the country (nowadays Northern Albania)
From 1387 as an Osman Turkish vassal. When her daughter, Rudjina,
married she retired to a convent in Ksenija. |
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1385-94 Dowager Despina Maria Angelina
Dukaina Palaiologina of
Ioannia (Greece/Albania) |
Daughter of Tomaida Orsini, daughter of Joannes Dukas Komnenos
Angelos Orsini, Despot of Epirus and Simeon Uros Palaiologos, Tsar of
the Serbs, Greeks and Albania. Her first husband Thomas
Comnenus-Preljubović, was Despot of
Ioannina, the capital of Epirus in
northern Greece, until he was murdered in 1384.
The population of Ioannina acclaimed
Maria as ruler. She used the title of basilissa, female form of
basileus. She summoned her brother John Uroš Doukas Palaiologos (now
monk under the name Joasaph) to advise her in the affairs of state.
John Uroš suggested that Maria marry Esau de' Buondelmonti, one of the
Latin noblemen captured by Thomas in 1379. There is an allegation,
that Maria was already enamoured of the captive before the murder of
her husband, and that this affair had resulted in the assassination of
Thomas.
The following year she
married Esau Buondelmonti-Acciaiuoli, who also became Despot of
Jannina (†1411). She lived (1350-94). |
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1386-1416 Sovereign Countess Marguerite of Vaudemont,
Dame
de Joinville (France) |
Succeeded father,
Henri V de Vaudemont. Her mother was Marie de Ligny de Houdanc. |
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1386-1417 Princess-Abbess Catherine van Halewyn of Nivelles,
Dame Temporaire and Spirituelle of Nivelles (Belgium) |
Her
surname was also spelled De Halluwin. |
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After 1386 Princess-Abbess
Elisabeth de Geroldseck of the Royal Abbey of Andlau, Lady
of Wagenbourg and Marlenheim etc. (France) |
Awarded Jean de Wangen with the fief of the Castle of Wangenburg.
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Until 1386/90
Reigning Abbess
Marguerite de la Rivičre of of Montivilliers
1386-1400/18 Reigning Abbess
of the Royal Abbey of Jouarre (France) |
During her second tenure, she was known as Marguerite II. She (d.
between 1400 and 1418). |
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1387-91 Countess Giacoma d'Aragona of Malta |
Also known as Giovanna she was member of the Argonese royal sideline of Farique de Aragon. Guillermo
d'Aragona
(a
grandson of king Federico of Sicily, born as Fadrique of Aragon) was
count around 1377.
She
held the county as a fief of the Aragonese ruler of Sicily, and
was succeeded by Guillermo Raimondo de Moncada. |
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Around
1387
Princess-Abbess Cunka
of the Royal Chapter St. Georg at the Hradschin in Prauge (Czech
Republic) |
The
St. Georg auf dem Hradschin zu Prag, Sankt-Georg Kloster or Sv. was
the oldest convent in the Bohmian Lands founded in 973 by Prince
Boleslav II and his sister, Mlada. |
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1387-95
Reigning Abbess Jeanne de Fiennes of Bourbourg,
Lady of Oxelaere,
Noordpeene, Faumont and Coutiches (France) |
Held semi-bishopal authority and secular jurisdiction of her territory. |
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1387-1434 Politically Influential Duchess Aleksandra of Mazowsze (Poland) |
Dominant during the rule of her husband Siemowit IV. She was sister of
Great Prince of Lithuania and king of Poland Władysław I Jagiełło, and
lived (circa 1371-1434). |
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1388-95 Lieutenant
Queen Violante de Bar of Arágon (Spain) |
Wielded
considerable administrative power during the frequent illnesses of her
husband, Juan I of Aragón. She transformed the Aragonese court into a
center of French culture, and especially cultivated the talents of
Provençal troubadours. In the face of her husband's unwillingness or
inability to act in the face of demands for reorganisation of the
royal household and other administrative reforms from urban deputies
in the Cortes which met at Monzón in Nov 1388, she made compromise
proposals which averted the crisis. Also known as Yolande de Bar, she
wa mother of 3 children: Violante of Aragon (Titular Queen of Aragon
from 1411), Jaime and Antonia. She was daughter of Robert I, Duke of
Bar and Marie of Valois and lived (circa 1365-1431). |
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1388-97 Hereditary Countess Jutta von Diez of Diez (Germany) |
Daughter and heiress of Count Gernard VII von Diez and married to
Adolf Graf von Nassau-Dillenburg (1362-1420) and mother of one
daughter, Jutta (d. 1424). |
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1388 Reigning Abbess Katharina Gieringer of Rottenmünster
(Germany) |
Head of the chapter for noble ladies, which was situated in Rottweil am Neckar in the Schwarzwald (Black Forest) in Württemberg. |
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Circa
1388-1408 Territorial Countess Isabel Douglas of Mar, Lady Garioch,
Chief of the Clan of Mar in Scotland (United Kingdom of Great
Britain) |
In
1390, Robert III. granted to his brother-in-law, Sir Malcolm Drummond,
Lord of Mar in right of his wife, the 11th Countess, a licence to
erect a tower on the lands of Castletown of Braemar. The King, in
1393, granted to Sir Malcolm by charter, forty pounds sterling per
annum from the great custom of Aberdeen, until the King shall give him
forty pounds worth of lands. In 1402 he was murdered by Alexander
Stewart. In the summer of 1404 Alexander Stewart captured her castle
and forced her to sign a charter on August 12, 1404. She revoked the
charter later that year, but on marrying him, she gave him the earldom
for life; the King confirmed her last action the next year. She lived
(c. 1360-1408) |
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From 1389 Regent Dowager Countess Margareta von Berg von Bayern
of Holland, Zeeland and Hainault (The Netherlands) |
Governed in the name of her son Willem VI of Bayern, who was governor
of Holland, Zeeland and Hainault (1389-1404) and afterwards count
after Marguerite III's death - he was succeeded by niece, Jacobäa of
Bavaria.
Margareta lived (1363-1414). |
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1389-97 Princess-Abbess Margaretha III van Horne-Perwez of
Thorn (The Netherlands) |
Sovereign of the Ecclesiastical Principality of Thorn. Not much is
known about her reign. |
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Around 1390
Princess-Abbess
Elsa of Elten
(Germany) |
Named as "Eerwoerdige und Hocgeborene vorstinne vrow Elsa" in a
document. Dispensed both high and low juridstiction and held hunting
rights in her territories. Also held the right to appoint and
dismiss clerics, and the right to excommunicate or ban clerics was
reserved to the Pope, not the Bishop of Utrecht. |
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1390-95
Abbess Nullius
Francesca
d'Angiň
of the Royal Convent of Saint Benedetto
in Conversano, Temporal and Secular Ruler of Conversano (Italy) |
A member of the ruling d'Anjou-family of Napoli. |
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1390 Guardian Dowager Countess Anna zu Mecklenburg of Holstein-Plön
(Germany) |
The
widow of Count Adolf VII of Holstein-Plön (who reigned 1358-90), she
made a treaty on behalf of King Albrecht von Mecklenburg of Sweden and
Duke Johan of Mecklenburg, which transferred the regency of Sweden,
Mecklenburg and the Counties of Mecklenburg, Schwerin and Rostock, to
king Albrecht's brother. She signed the treaty together with Abbot
Johan Doberum, 14 Mecklenburgian knights and various Mayors. |
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1390-1401 Politically Influential
Queen Anabella Drummond of
Scotland (United Kingdom) |
Very powerful during the reign of her husband, Robert Johan Stuart
of Kyle, who was partly paralyzed. In 1398 she had her son, David,
Duke of Rothsay appointed regent. Her husband was succeeded by second
son, James I. She lived (1350-1401). |
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1390-95 Politically Influential
Queen Leonor de Castilla y León of Navarra in Catilla (Spain) |
Left her
husband, Carlos II of Navarra (1361-1425), with her 4 daughters in 1390,
returning to Castile where she lived at Valladolid and played an active
political role. She opposed her nephew Enrique III King of Castile,
forming the League of Lillo together with her half-brother Fadrique de
Castilla Duque de Benevente and cousin Pedro de Castilla Conde de
Trastámara. King Enrique besieged her in her castle at Roa [mid-1394] and
obliged her to return to her husband in February 1395. Crowned Queen of
Navarre at Pamplona 3 Jun 1403. And later had one more surviving daughter,
and two sons and a daughter who died as infants. She was daughter of
Enrique II of Castile and dońa Juana Manuel de Castilla, Seńora de Villena,
Peńafiel y Escalona. She lived (circa 1363-1415/16). |
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139..-circa 1400 Sovereign Countess
Johanna van Hoogstraten of
Cuyk (The Netherlands) |
Succeeded father, Jan V. When she died circa 1400 without any children
the country returned to Gelders. It was now a contested territory
between Gelder and Brabant until the middle of the 16th century when
it fell to Nassaus. |
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Until 1391/92 Political Advisor Julianna Twerska in Lithuania |
Functioned as
advisor for her son Władysław II Jagiełło, king of Poland and
the Great Prince of Lithuania. |
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1391-1409 Regent Dowager Chiefess Foelkeldis of Ostfriesland
(Germany) |
After her husband Ocko fell in battle in 1391, she was regent for sons
Widzelt (d. 1399) and Keno II (1391-1417). |
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1391-1410 Reigning Abbess Sophia von Daching of Niedermünster
in Regensburg (Germany) |
Regensburg was the
seat of the Imperial Diet and the Chapter and Territory of
Niedermünster was one of the most influential and prestigious. |
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1392-1419 Regent Queen Isabeau Baverie of France
1403-04 President of the Council of State |
In
1392 her husband, Charles IV had the first of 44 fits of insanity,
which were to last until his death in 1422, and would make him unable
to reign. Isabeau was given large lands in Normandie, around Paris and
in Champagne as a security, and officially declared regent during the
"absence" of her husband. From 1395 she actively engaged in politics,
and arranged the marriage of her children in very young age. Her
advisors, the brother's of her husband, Philippe de Burgundy and
d'Orléans, engaged in a fierce power struggle, which almost resulted
in a civil war. In 1402 she took over the control of the taxation and
at 26.4.1403 she became President of the Council of State and took
over the management of the Government. One year later Louis died, and
she reigned jointly with Philippe. After the birth of the last child,
she removed totally from Charles, who became more and more violent and
dangerous. In 1407 her position was reaffirmed in an official act, but
her husband's cousin, Jean placed his followers in all the central
positions. 1411-12 a civil war broke out between the Burundians and
Orleans. In 1415 her 18-year-old son, Louis, took over the government,
and soon after the English attacked France. After Louis' death, his
brother, Jean (Married to Jakobäa of Hainault, Holland and Zeeland)
was regent until his death two years later. She then was in charge
again, and appointed Jean without Fear as Governor of the French
Kingdom. In 1419 and 1420 she met the English king, Henry V and
negotiated a peace-treaty. After the death of her husband, she lived
alone, plagued by rheumatism and immobile because of her heavy weight.
Originally named Elisabeth von Bayern, she was mother of 12 children,
and lived (1370-1435). |
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1392-94 Destine Elena Utopia of Raja (Albania) |
Wife of Carlo Topia (1360-66, 1366-88 and 1394) and was deposed by the
Ottoman Turks. (d. 1410). |
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1392/95 Sovereign Viscountess
Alix of Dreux (France)
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Succeeded her father, Etienne Gavin I, Seigneur de Bossart, Vicomte de
Dreux (1330-92) and married to Mace de Gemges. She lived (1364-94). |
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Circa
1392-1418 Politically Influential
Grand Duchess Anna of Lithuania |
Married to Duke Vytautas of Lithuania. In 1392 she signed “The
Agreement from Ostrowo”, promising that her husband would be loyal for
Poland, for Queen Jadwiga and her husband king Władysław. Anna died in
1418. |
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1392-94 Princess-Abbess
Fida Hundis of Baindt (Germany) |
As
Fürstabtissin she was sovereign ruler of the principality and had a
seat on the Ecclesiastical Bench in the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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Around
1392
Princess-Abbess
Gunegundis
of the Royal Chapter St. Georg at the Hradschin in Prauge (Czech
Republic) |
The
chapter of St. Georg auf dem Hradschin zu Prag, Sankt-Georg Kloster or Sv. was
the oldest convent in the Bohmian Lands founded in 973 by Prince
Boleslav II and his sister, Mlada. |
|
1393-1404 Regent Dowager Duchess Maddalena Visconti of
Lower Bavaria (Germany) |
After the death of her husband, Friedrich, Duke of Bayern-Landshut
(1375-1393), she took over the reins for their son Heinrich XVI the
Rich (1386-93-1450). She was daughter of Lord Barnabas Visconti of
Milano and Beatrix della Scala di Verona, and lived (circa 1366-1404). |
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1393-1417 Sovereign Countess Marie de Baux of Orange (France) |
Succeeded father Raymond IV and joint ruler with husband, Jean I de
Chalons-Arlay, who died of the Plague in Paris. Succeeded by son Louis
II de Châlon). |
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1393-97 Regent
Dowager Duchess Hedwig von Liegnitz of Sagan-Glogau (Żagań-Głogów)
(Poland)
1393-1409 Reigning Dowager Duchess in Sagan, Krossen, Bobrowice,
Naumburg am Bober Świebodzin (Żagań, Krosno, Nowogród Bobrzańsk) |
Also known as Jadwiga Legnicka. After the death of her husband, the
Slesian Duke Heinrich VI, of Sagan, she reigned for sons in Glogau and
held the other territories as her dowry. The daughter Duke Wacław I of
Leonia, she lived (1351/57-1409). |
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1393-98
Regent
Dowager Countess Bona di Berry of
Savoia, Moriana, Chablais, Aosta, Ivrea, Susa, Baugé, Romont, Vaud, Gex, Nice and Geneva,
Dame
de Faucigny and de Carlat (Italy, France and Switzerland)
|
Also known as Bonne
de Berry, she fought her mother-in-law, Bona de Bourbone, who had
initially become regent after the death of her husband,
Count Amedeo VII of Savoy, Aosta and Moriana (1383-91) and Count of Nice
(1388-91). But after two years she as able to take over the regency for her son, Amedeo VIII who was Count of Savoy, Aosta, Moriana,
Nice and Geneva, who later became the 1st Duke of Savoy (1416-34) and Prince del Piemonte
(1418-34) until his abdication 1434, when he became a religious
hermit, later antipope and biship. She was daughter
of Duke Jean I of Berry and Jeanne d'Armagnac
and lived (1362-1435). |
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1393-1431 Reigning Abbess Blanche d’Harcourt of the
Royal Abbey of Fontevraud (France) |
Cousin of king Charles VI of France. |
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1394-95
Sovereign Duchess Francesca Acciaiuoli of Athens
(Greece)
1394-?
Lady
of
Megara and Sikyon [Basilicata]
1429-? Lady
of Santa Mavra and of Vonitza
|
In
some lists of the Dukes of Athens she is listed as successor of her
father, Nerio I Acciaiuoli, who was Lord of Corinth,
ca.1370-1394. But she surely received
the Lordships of Megara and Sikyon under the will of her father.
Having inherited the political ability of her father, she advised her husband,
Carlo I Tocco, Count of Kefalonia, Duke of Leukadia, in
his councils, who had inherited Corinth in 1394 on the death of his father-in-law despite
the latter's arrangement with his other son-in-law Theodoros Palaiologos who
unsuccessfully besieged the town in the same year but finally captured
it in 1396. She inherited the island of Santa Mavra and the fortress of Vonitza when her
husband died. From 1395
until 1402/5 the Duchy was occupied by Venice until her illegitimate
brother, Antonio I, took over as duke 1402/05-35. Her sister,
Bartolomea Acciaiuoli,
received Corinth as part of her dowry. |
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1394-95
Co-executor Gismonda
Acciaiuoli of the Duchy of Athens (Greece) |
Appointed co-executor under the will of her brother Nerio in 1394, so
long as she remained in Greece.
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1394-1406 Sovereign Countess
Blanche of Dammartin (France) |
Daughter of Charles, Count of Dammartin, who died after 1368, and
Jeanne, Vicomtesse de Châteaudun, and married Charles Bureau, Seigneur
de la Riviere, who died 1429. |
|
1394-1424 Sovereign Countess Jeanne II d'Auvergne and Boulogne
(France) |
Succeeded father Jean II (1386-94), and reigned jointly with
husband, Duke Jean I de Berry, Duke d’Auvergne, Count de Poitiers, and
after his death in 1416 with George de la Trémoille, Comte de Guines,
Baron de Sully.
She became famous for
saving the life of her nephew, King Charles the Mad, during the
disastrous Bal des Ardents ("Ball of the Burning Men").
She was succeeded by her cousin, Marie I, and lived
(1378-circa 1424). |
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1394–97
Marguerite of Enghien of Brienne (France) |
Succeeded her father, Louis and
reigned jointly with her husband,
John, Lord of Beauvoir. |
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1394-1445
Sovereign Baroness Johanna van Wassenaer-Polanen of Breda with
Polanen, Geertruidenberg, Hoge Zwaluwe, Naalkdwijk, Niervaard,
Klundert and de Lek, Lady of Cuijk (The Netherlands) |
As
the only child of Jan III van Polanen, she inherited vast lands and a
huge fortune. She married Engelbert van Nassau-Siegen (1370-1442) and
lived (1392-1445). |
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1394–1442 Reigning Dowager Lady Dowager Duchess Margarete von Jülich
of Hardegsen in Braunschweig-Göttingen (Germany) |
Widow of Otto I of Braunschweig-Göttingen (circa
1340-94). She was mother of 4 children, and lived (circa
1364-1442). |
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1394-1400 Princess-Abbess
Margaretha II Wiellin of Baindt
(Germany) |
The
abbey was founded 1227 as a Cistercian Convent (Zisterzienserinnen-Klosters),
and the free worldly chapter for noble ladies became Princesses of
Empire in about 1376. |
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1395-98 Reigning Queen Jelena Gruba of Bosnia |
Her husband, Stephen Dabiša, had designated King Sigismund of Hungary,
the husband of his relative, Queen Mary of Hungary, as his successor.
The Bosnian nobility refuzed to recognize Sigismund as king and
installed her as the new monarch. It was during her reign that the
Bosnian nobility grew in power independently from the crown. Amongst
them were the famous Dukes Sandalj Hranić and Hrvoje Vukčić and Prince
Pavle Radenović that ruled their own demesnes independently from the
Queen. Her demesne was a small territory in central Bosnia, while she
lost the suzeiranity over the territories of Usora in the valley of
the river of Sava. Though she lost some territory and control over
nobility, Jelena's reign saw successful trade with the Republic of
Dubrovnik.In 1398 she was replaced with Stephen Ostoja. It is unclear
why she was replaced. It is possible that her brothers were gaining
too much wealth and influence during her reign and the rest of the
nobility didn't like it. She continued to reside at the court as queen
dowager. Sources refer to her as the most serene and mighty lady Gruba.
(d. after 1399.) |
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1395-97 and 1398-99 Regent-Governor Queen Maria López de
Luna of Aragón (Spain) |
Her
husband, King Martin I, was king of Aragon (1395-1410) and in 1409 he
succeeded his son as King of Sicily, where he reigned one year. Their
son, Martin the Younger's wife Maria of Sicily, inherited the kingdom
in 1377 but 1379-88 she was in-exile in Sardegna because of civil war
in Sicily. In 1390 they married and two years later they returned
together with Martin I. After her death in 1402, Martin the Younger,
married the later Queen Blanca II of Navarre (1391-1425-42). Maria
succeeded her father Lope de Luna as Countess of Luna. (d.
1406). |
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1395-1418
Reigning Abbess
Agnčs de Nieppe of Bourbourg,
Lady of Oxelaere,
Noordpeene, Faumont and Coutiches (France) |
Succeeded by Marie I de la Chapelle. |
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1395-97
Reigning Abbess
Katharina von Heudorf of Wald,
Lady
of the Offices of Wald, Vernhof and Ennigerloh (Germany) |
Head of the important teritorrial chapter in Swabia. |
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Circa 1395-1405 County Sheriff Gertrud Pedersdatter Grubbe of the Counties of Horsetofte and Ellinge, Denmark |
Gertrud Grubbe held the very small estate as a tenant as the Bishop of Roskilde. She was so-called Bispelensmand.
She was married to Erik Barnumsen til Skarsholm (d. 1367). She ( d. circa 1405) |
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1396-1420 Sovereign Despina Rudjina Balsha of Kanina,
Lady
of Valona
1414-17 Dowager Despotess of Valona (Albania) |
Also known by the titles of kraljica (Slavic), Quin (Albanian) or
Regina (Latin), she was daughter of Balsa II Balsic (Balshic), Lord of
Zeta and Durazzo, who was killed in 1385, and Domnina Asen Komnenos,
Despotess of Valona. Married to Merxa Zarkovic in 1391 and became
Despotess-consort of the state after her mother retired. In 1417 the
Osman Turks conquered her lands. (d. after 1421). |
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1396-97
Lady Bartolomea
Acciaiuoli of Corinth
(Greece) |
Received the lordship as dowry upon her marriage
of Theodoros I Palaiologos, Despot of Morea, son of Emperor Ioannes V of
Byzantinum. But as the lordship went to her brother-in-law, her husband besieged
Corinth and finally acquired Corinth it in 1396, after
Venice mediated the release of Pedro Bordo de San Superano,
whom he had captured, but he sold it in 1400 to the Knights of St John. She was
daughter of Nerio
Acciaiuoli, Duke
of Athens, Baron of Vostitza and Nivele (d. 1394) and Agnese Saraceno and
her sister, Francesca inherited the lordships of Megara and Sikyon in 1394. She
(d. 1397).
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1396-1430 Reigning Abbess-General Urraca Díez de Orozco of the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria la
Real de Las Huelgas in Burgos (Spain) |
As Seńora Abadesa of Las Huelgas
she held quasi-episcopal powers and ruled a large territory at the
same time. |
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1396-1446
Abbess Nullius
Francesca d'Enghien
of the Royal Convent of Saint Benedetto
in Conversano, Temporal and Secular Ruler of Conversano (Italy) |
Sister of Maria d’Enghien who was Countess of Lecce (1384-1414), Princess of Tarento (1406-07) and
wife of King Ladislao
of Napoli. |
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1397-1443 Sovereign Countess Henriette of
Montbéliard
(France)
1419-26 Regent Dowager Countess of Württemberg (Germany) |
Succeeded father as Countess of Montbelliard or Mömpelgard in
Burgundy. After the death of her husband, count Eberhard V, she took
over the regency for son Ulrich.
She lived (1387-1444). |
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1397-1404 Sovereign Countess Marie de Coucy, Soissons and Marle
(France) |
Oldest daughter of Count Enguerrand VII, she sold the territory to
Duke Louis d’Orléans and might have been murdered. Her only son with
her late husband, Heinrich, Hereditary Count of Bar, Robert, died in
1415 and trough his daughter, the territory went to the House of
Luxembourg-Ligny.
Marie lived (1366-1411). |
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1397-1412 De facto Ruler Mara Brankovic
of Kosovo
|
Widow of Vuk Brankovic (circa 1371 - 1397), she reigned together with
her sons, until the final conquest by the Ottoman Turks.
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1397-1420 Reigning Dowager Duchess Katharina von Oppeln in
Zielona Góra and Kożuchów (Poland) |
Also known as Katarzyna Opolska, she held the territories as her dowry
after the death of her husband Heinrich VIII of Sagan. |
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1397-1446 Princess-Abbess
Mechtildis van Horne of Thorn (The
Netherlands)
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Only 17 when she was elected abbess, and therefore she needed a special Papal dispensation to take over
the position, as the minimum age was normally 30 year. She was mainly
interested in the temporal side of her position, and during most of
her reign she was busy with inheritance-disputes with the Counts of
Loon, and in 1440 it even came to a regular war. In 1446 she abdicated
in favour of Jacobäa van Heinsberg-Loon, but remained titular Abbess
till her death. She lived (1380-1459). |
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1398-1412 Sovereign Countess
Isabelle of Foix, Vicomtesse
of Béarn and Co-Princess of Andorra,
Viscomtesse de
Castellbó (et cetera), de Marsan, du Gévaydan et de Lautrec (France and
Spain) |
Succeeded brother, Mathieu V de Foix-Castelbon, and ruled jointly with
husband, Archambaud de Grailly, who allied himself with the English
and Navarrians against the French and was engaged in the 100 year war.
As a result the territory of Foix was occupied by the French at one
point, and in 1402 her husband and two sons swore an oath of
allegiance to the king of France and Archambaud was named
Captain-General in Languedoc in 1412 |
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1398-1404 Princess-Abbess Anna I von Bussnang of Fraumünster,
Dame of Zürich (Switzerland)
|
The
noble von Bussenang family had many clerical members - Abbots of St.
Gallen and high officials by the bishop of Konstantz and Zürich and
other parts of Switzerland. |
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1398-1416
Reigning Abbess.....von Reischach
of Wald,
Lady
of the Offices of Wald, Vernhof and Ennigerloh (Germany) |
The stewardship and higher jurisdiction came into the posession of the
family of Werdenberg in 1399. The Abbess held the lower
jurisdiction. |
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1399-1402 Regent Dowager Duchess Juana de Navarra of Bretagne
and Montfort
(France) |
After Jean IV's death, she was regent for son Jean VI until she married
king Henry IV of England as his third wife and became known as Joan of Navarra.
Accused of conspiracy by her stepson
Henry V King of England, imprisoned at Pevensey Castle, but released
in 1425 by King Henry VI. She lived (circa 1373-1437). |
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1399-1421
Princess-Abbess
Aloisia von Herbersdorf of
Göss bei Leoben
(Austria)
|
Member of the
Austrian family of Counts of Herberdorf. |
|
1399-1425
Politically Influential
Princess Anna of Poland in Poland |
Her father, Casimir III of Poland (1309–1370), was
suceeded by his nephew, Louis of Hungary, who was again succeeded by
his daughter, Jadwiga. When she died in 1399 her husband,
Władysław IV Jagiełło, Grand Duke of Lithuania looked
for a new wife among the
heirs to the kingdom of Poland, and he was married to
her yongest daughter, Anna of Celje and had one daughter, Princess
Jadwiga of Lithuania, in 1408, with him. Anna died in 1416 without
further surviving children and her granddaughter was married to
Margrave Friederich II of Brandenburg Template (1413–1471), and she
and a party of nobles wanted her granddaughter and her husband to
succeed Władysław at least in Poland, instead of his sons by his
fourth wife, but when she died, Jadwiga was without any strong
relatives to support her position and she died 1431 without any
issue, allegedly by poison. She had first married the Slovenian count
William of Celje (Cilli) (1361–92)
and secondly Duke Ulrich von Teck (d. 1432). She lived (1366–1425). |
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