Female Monarchs List

[Szuja]

Originally posted by Chumnuks
Wonder what he's talking about...

I think he means that in EU1, the de facto ruler was the monarch rather than the de jure ruler. For instance, Charles IX of France was incompetent, and his mother Catherine de Medici was running the show.

 

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Originally posted by C444Lockhart
and Joan of Arc makes an appearance as an event.

In EEP, she's also a monarch.

 

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The last monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom was Queen Lilioukalani.

http://www.uic.edu/depts/owa/history/liliuokalani.html


The American sugar plantation barons, led by Sanford Dole, wanted Hawaii to become annexed by the USA. So they plotted charges against the queen. The plantation barons set her up, they "caught" her with a weapons cache in her palace, and they accused the queen of plotting some kind of native hostility towards the Americans. So they arrested her, and she was confined to house arrest for years. She was essentially deposed, as she was under house arrest, she could no longer rule her kingdom. It was now in the hands of elite American plantation barons. After her arrest, the constitution of Hawaii was re-written to make way for a very short lived Republic of Hawaii. This paved the way for Hawaii to become a state of the USA. The USA ratified and fully annexed Hawaii as a state in 1898.


P.S. -- this Sanford Dole is indeed the same "Dole" of the Dole pineapple brand, which is a famous brand worldwide today. And among the plotters that overthrew the Queen was also the original founders of the sugar company C&H. Just so we know our history, some of these modern megacorporations today really do have..... umm.... less than angelic pasts

As for China ----

I forget her name, but China had an "Empress Dowager" in the late 1800s. She was a contemporary of Queen Victoria. Both women communicated with each other. They wrote letters to each other, they sent gifts to each other. This Empress Dowager (aka regent empress) was the mother of the last emperor of China..... the little boy emperor in the same movie "The Last Emperor". He was overthrown by.... hmm I'm not sure who overthrew him. Was it the communists?

 

[Castellon]

Let's move this interesting discussion to the History forums.
*Moved

 

[Jove]

P'u Yi was born on February 7, 1906 and the Ch'ing Dynasty was in trouble. China had come to be dominated by foreign powers, mainly Westerners. The country was ruled by Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi (or Cixi). She had imprisoned the nominal emperor, Kuang Hsu, for conspiring against her. On her deathbed the empress named young P'u Yi -- the son of the imprisoned emperor's brother -- to succeed her. To make sure the current emperor didn't interfere in her plans, it is said, she had him poisoned. P'u Yi was nearly three years old when the dowager empress died. As emperor he was given the reign name Hsuan Tung.

P'u Yi's father, Prince Ch'un, served as regent. The prince disliked politics, and dissidents considered him weak. There was great resentment in China against foreigners and the Manchu government, and in 1911 rebellion swept through the country, forcing Prince Ch'un to resign as regent. Chinese general Yuan Shih-k'ai took over the government. He hoped to start his own ruling dynasty and suggested that P'u Yi should abdicate. Fearing the consequences if they refused, the Manchu Grand Council agreed, and on February 12, 1912, the five-year old emperor renounced his throne. He continued to live in the Forbidden City and was treated with enormous respect even after he was dethroned.

 

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Originally posted by Schaksen
Margrete I, 1353-1412, ruler of Denmark, Norway and Sweden just before the game starts

She is very likely the most poweful femal leader of the not so well known queens. And differs from most of the others by:
1) Really ruling herself and not just being a figurehead
and
2) Not directly inheriting any of her kingdoms

She got her son elected to king of Denmark when her father (the Danish king) died, (the alernativ was one of her sisters sons), And herself appointed Regent during his minority.
Her son then innherited Norway when her husband(the Norwgian king) died, and she became Regent during his minority.
When her son died she had done such a good job that she retanied the positions as regent of both Denmark and Norway until a new king could be appointed.
She where offered the crown of Sweden by a large part of the swedish noblity if she helped them kick-out the current german-born swedish king, she did.
She later had a grandnephew elected king of all three countries but stayed as regent until he was of age. But she stayed on as regent util she died, her grandnephew the king was 30 at that time and should have been considerd of age for at least ten years.

 

[SykoNurse]

Lookie here!
Women Political Leaders —Historical and Current.

and ethiopia had quite a few:
copied from http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/Ethiopia_Heads.htm
source looks biased to me though.

B.C. ca. 4530-3240 Legendary Queen Eyleuka (Dalukah)
Before the flooding of the world

B.C. ca. 2585-2145 Legendary Queen Nehasset Nais
After the flooding

B.C. ca. 1875-56 Legendary Queen Kasipo

Before 1400 Queen Mumazes Moso
For four years in succession to her father.

B.C. ca. 1358-1104 Queen Helena

B.C. ca. 1080-26 High Priestess Makeda of Thebes
Some believe that she might have been the Bibilical Queen of Sabha

B.C. ca. 705-690 Queen Nikauta Kadake

B.C. 390-80 Queen Hadina Za Hadena

BC. 360-50 Queen/King Nikaula Candace
The gender of this ruler is not known.

BC. 343-33 Queen/King Akawkis Candace
The gender of this ruler is not known.

B.C. ca. 260-50 Queen Nikoses Candace

B.C. 58-33 Queen Nikotnis Candace

A.D. ca. 50-60 Queen Garsemot Candace

216 Queen Wakana
Ruled for 2 days before she was deposed

Ca. 325-ca.34 Queen Zaela Ahyawa (Ahyawa Sefya/Eguala Anbasa)
She succeeded her husband and converted to Christianity 327.

900 Queen Gudit of Ethiopia

1478-94 Regent Dowager Empress Eleni (Kañ Ba’altiphant Rōmana Warq)
1507-16 Head of the Regency Council
For son Quastantions IV (1478-94) and great-grandson Lebna Dengel, who died 1525.

1507-16 Regent Empress Dowager Naód Mogensa of Ethiopia
She was member of the regency council which ruled for her son Emperor Lebna together with his great-grandmother.

1730-56 Regent Dowager Empress Berhan Mugasa Mentewab (Mantuab Walatta Giyorgis)
For son Iyasu II (1730-55) and grandson Iyoas I (1748-55-69). She lived (ca. 1710-73)

1883-1918 Queen of Shewa
1906-10 De-facto Regent, Empress/Itegé Taytu Betul
1910 Official Reggent
She was crowned Queen of Shewa in 1883. Itegé is the title of the Empress-Consort. She acted as regent during her husband, Emperor Menilek II's illness. She was very powerful, but still obtained her husband's authorization for her decisions, until being appointed official regent. She was removed by a coup d'etat in 1910. Born as Walata Mikáel, she lived (1853-1918)

1916-33 Empress Zawditu Menilek (27.9.16-2.4.30)
Her title was Negista Nagast (or Negeste-Negestate - Queen of Kings), Elect of God and Lion of Judah. She was married four times and had a daughter (1891-94/95).

 

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What about Sophie in Russia?

 

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Gosh everyone is doing so much research for me.

I used some of the women you all mentioned in my talk and I think I may have bored all the young girls to death.

Thankyou All


Becky

 

[Aetius]

Need any more female leaders?

There a few female Emperors (they don't call them Empresses) of Japan:
Meisho (1629 - 1643)
Gosakuramachi (1762 - 1771)

The Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada the Shogun after the Tokugawa takeover of the country was apparently pushed around and bullied by his wife, so she basically ran the country. The Emperor Meisho was his (or perhaps I should say his wife's) granddaughter.
Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1449 to 1473), another Shogun, was pretty much controlled by his wife as well. She is widely blamed for the Onin War caused by her pressure on Yoshimasa to accept her son as legal heir.

There is victim of history called Jane Grey who ruled England for all of 9 days in 1553.

Catherine de' Medici ran France for many years in the 16th century as well, behind the scenes of course.

Cixi is the Chinese Empress Dowager described above, a good contrast to Victoria.

Just a footnote:
The King of Dahomey used female warriors, and they were generally considered to be more reliable, viscious and brave than the men. Usually they were unmarried or widows who had little to lose, which is usually not mentioned in the eulogies.

 

[Cerebus]

Damn!
I forgot Lady Jane Grey.

She is usualy missed out of lists of English Monarchs. I presume because no one took her claim seriously. Including herself.

Better thought of as a failed coup by her father.

 

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for Russia, also princess Sofia (Peter the Great's elder sister) (1682-1689)

 

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Many historians don't even count Jane Grey as a queen, poor thing. The reign of "Bloody" Mary Tudor began with the death of that teenage girl.

Queen Kristina of Sweden is listed in From Dawn To Decadence as one of the features of Western cultural life. Apparently, she was one of the "new women" of the later Renaissance and Enlightenment, along with Elizabeth I (who was also a Virgin Queen). She was a stark contrast to the stupidity of Marie de' Medicis.