Category

16th-century women regents

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Catherine de' Medici

queen-consort and regent of France (1519–1589)

Catherine of Aragon

first wife of Henry VIII of England (1485–1536)

sixth wife of Henry VIII; final queen consort of the House of Tudor

Scottish Queen consort (1489-1541)

Isabella of Portugal

16th-century Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Spain (1503-1539)

Isabella of Austria

Queen consort of Denmark, Norway and Sweden; (1501-1526)

Mary of Lorraine

Scottish Queen consort; (1515-1560)

Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy

Austrian archduchess and regent of the Netherlands (1480-1530)

Mary of Hungary

governor of the Netherlands and queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia (1505-1558)

Christina of Denmark

duchess consort of Milan and duchess consort of Lorraine (1521-1590)

Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress

Holy Roman empress (1528-1603)

Isabella d'Este

Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal

queen consort and regent of Portugal

Margaret of Parma

Habsburg noble (1522-1586)

Louise of Savoy

Mother of King Francis I of France (1476-1531)

Regent of France (1461-1522)

Isabella Jagiellon

Queen Consort of Hungary

Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal

Spanish infanta, Austrian archduchess, Portuguese princess

Catalina Micaela of Spain

Austrian archduchess (1567-1597)

Catherine de Bourbon

Infanta of Navarre, Princess of France, crown princess of Navarre and crown princess consort of Lorraine

Eleanor of Toledo

Duchess of Florence (1522-1562)

Elena Glinskaya

second wife of Grand Prince Vasili III

Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Duchess consort of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Indian Muslim regent and warrior (1550-1599)

Queen regent of Gondwana (1524–1564)

Eleanor de' Medici

Family member of the House of Medici (1567-1611)

Christina Gyllenstierna

Noblewoman of Sweden and leader of resistance to Christian II of Denmark (1494-1559)

Swedish royal; daughter of Gustav I of Sweden and Margaret Leijonhufvud (1545-1610)

Christine of Saxony

German noblewoman (1506-1549)

Margaret Paleologa

Marchioness of Montferrat in her own right

Blanche of Montferrat

duchess of Savoy and wife of Charles I of Savoy (1472-1519)

Anne d'Alençon

marquise of Montferrat (1492-1562)

Charlotte of Albret

wife of Cesare Borgia; sister of King John III of Navarre

Anna of Oldenburg

Regent of East Frisia from 1540 to 1561

princess and ruler of Bundi, India

Anna of Veldenz

Margrave of Baden (1540-1586)

Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Mecklenburgian royal

Eleni of Ethiopia

Ethiopian Empress

Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen

duchess consort of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen

Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois

French aristocrat

Chiajna of Moldavia

Princess consort of Wallachia

Elisabeth of Hesse, Hereditary Princess of Saxony

Empress Dowager Xiaoding

mother of the Wanli Emperor; CBDB ID=67555

Margaret of Münsterberg

Silesian princess of the house Münsterberg, by marriage, Duchess of Anhalt (1473-1530)

Doamna Despina Milița

Princess of Wallachia

Italian Duchess

Aisan Daulat Begum

chief consort of Yunus Khan

Russian noblewoman, Regent of the Ryazan Principality in 1483 and in 1500–1501

Anastazja Słucka

Sisudachan (; early 1500s – 1548 in Ayutthaya) was a queen of Ayutthaya by marriage to King Chairacha of Ayutthaya. At his death, between 1546 and 1548, she served as regent for her son Yot Fa.

Catherine Salvaresso

Princess consort of Wallachia

Anne of Navarre

1492-1532 Regent and Infanta of Navarre

, also known as Ukiyaka or Yosoidon (1445–1505), was Queen of the Ryukyu Kingdom from 1469 until her death. She married Shō En before he became king, and acted as regent during the early years of Shō Shin's reign.

Jacqueline de Rohan, Marquise de Rothelin

French noblewoman

Anna von Tecklenburg-Schwerin

German regent (1532–1582)

Eleonora Bentivoglio