Queen
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Queen - A queen was a special rank higher than most, only more powerful being the King. She was considered an equal to the king, but still was forced to do any actions directed at her from the king.
Basically, a queen is qualifying reference to a female monarch possessing and exercising all of the monarchal powers of a ruler, in contrast with a "queen consort", who is the wife of a reigning king as monarch, and in and of herself has no official powers of state. The term is redundant in cultures or countries where a queen always ruled as the monarch when bearing the title queen or where the wife of a king bore a title other than queen, when having no official powers.
[edit] List of medieval queens
- Amalasuntha, Queen of Goths
- Amina, Queen of Zazzua
- Anna
- Anna Nzinga
- Brunhilde
- Edith (Eadgyth) of England
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Elizabeth I of England
- Fredegund
- Isabella of France
A portrait of Queen Elisabeth of Austria, a more modern "Queen/Empress"
- Isabella I of Spain
- Mary I of England
- Mary of Burgundy
- Mary of Guise
- Olga of Russia
