12th-century regents

Queen consort of France; Queen consort of England; suo jure Duchess of Aquitaine; patroness

Holy Roman Empress (1114–1125); claimant to the English throne

French Poitevin knight and King of Jerusalem by right of marriage (c.1150–1194) (r. 1186–1192)

Count of Edessa (r. 1100-1118) and King of Jerusalem (r. 1118–1131)

Queen consort of England

Count of Anjou (r. 1109-1129) and the King of Jerusalem (r.1131-1143)

Suger (; ; ; 1081 – 13 January 1151) was a French abbot and statesman. He was a key advisor to King Louis VI and his son Louis VII, acting as the latter's regent during the Second Crusade. His writings are seminal texts for early 12th-century Capetian history, and his reconstruction of the Basilica of Saint-Denis, where he was abbot, was instrumental in creating the Gothic architecture style.

Italo-Norman leader of the First Crusade (1075-1112)

Queen of the Franks from 1160 to 1180

Ayyubid sultan of Egypt and Syria, brother of Saladin

countess of Champagne (1145-1198)

Duke of Brabant (from 1183) and Duke of Lower Lotharingia (from 1190)

Byzantine Empress

Countess of Sicily (1089–1101) and Queen of Jerusalem (1112–1117)

Abūʾl-Maymūn ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanṣir, better known by his regnal name as al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allāh (), was the eleventh Fatimid caliph, ruling over Egypt from 1132 to his death in 1149, and the 21st imam of Hafizi Isma'ilism.

Mother of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (1030-1102)

French princess

Countess of Flanders (1112-1165)

Danish royal consort

Christian crusader

Queen consort of Hungary

Margravine consort of Austria and Tuscany and Duchess consort of Saxony and Bavaria (1115-1143)

Flemish Crusader, lord of Caesarea and Sidon

Count of Tripoli

politician (1078-1126)

Japanese noble

Daughter of Baldwin II of Jerusalem, Countess of Tripoli (12th century) (1116-1162)

Queen of Sicily (1134-1182)

German countess (c.1060–1117)

Duchess of Britain

regent

Queen of Navarre

Polish noble

Zahir al-Din Toghtekin or Tughtekin (; died February 12, 1128), also spelled Tughtegin, was a Turkoman military leader, who was emir of Damascus from 1104 to 1128. He was the founder of the Burid dynasty of Damascus.

Countess of Holland

politician

12th century ruler of Damascus

Czech princess

Beloš (; or Belus; fl. 1141–1163), was a Serbian prince and Hungarian palatine who served as the regent of Hungary from 1141 until 1146, alongside his sister Helena, mother of the infant King Géza II. Beloš held the title of duke (dux), and ban of Croatia from 1146 until 1157 and briefly in 1163. Beloš, as a member of the Serbian Vukanović dynasty, also briefly ruled his patrimony as the Grand Prince of Serbia in 1162. He lived during a period of Serbian-Hungarian alliance, amid a growing threat from the Byzantines, who had earlier been the overlords of Serbia.

Duchess consort of Bavaria

Duchess of Normandy

Regent

Empress

French noble

aragonese noble

Japanese noble

Chinese empress

Song Dynasty empress

(1123-1195)

Queen of Chaulukyas

German noblewoman (1098-1148)

Polish princess member of the House of Piast

countess of Edessa from 1134 to 1150

Ly Dynasty empress

politician

koParakesarivarman, Tyagasamudra

Ly dynasty chancellor

Countess of Holland (died 1238)

Gaelic magnate