Concubines

thumb|Bilhah - detail from c:File:Rachel Giving Bilhah to Jacob from The Story of Jacob series MET AR1420.jpg|Flemish tapestry made around 1550, depicting Rachel giving Bilhah to Jacob.|362x362px Bilhah ( "unworried", Standard Hebrew: Bilha, Tiberian Hebrew: Bīlhā) is a woman mentioned in the Book of Genesis. describes her as Laban's handmaiden (), who was given to Rachel to be her handmaid on Rachel's marriage to Jacob. When Rachel failed to have children, Rachel gave Bilhah to Jacob like a wife to bear him children. Bilhah gave birth to two sons, whom Rachel claimed as her own and named Dan

Keturah (, Qəṭūrā, possibly meaning "incense"; ) was a wife and a concubine of the Biblical patriarch Abraham. According to the Book of Genesis, Abraham married Keturah after the death of his first wife, Sarah. Abraham and Keturah had six sons. According to Jewish tradition, she was a descendant of Noah's son Japheth.

In the Book of Genesis, Zilpah ( Zīlpā, meaning uncertain) was Leah's handmaid whom Leah gave to Jacob like a wife to bear him children (). Zilpah gave birth to two sons, whom Leah claimed as her own and named Gad and Asher ().

Roman freedwoman and mistress of Emperor Nero

thumb|The three sons of Herleva of Falaise: William the Conqueror|William, Duke of Normandy, in the centre, Odo, the bishop of [[Bayeux, on the left and Robert, Count of Mortain, on the right (Bayeux Tapestry, 1070s)]] Herleva () was an 11th-century Norman woman known for having been the mother of William the Conqueror, born to an extramarital relationship with Robert I, Duke of Normandy, and also of William's prominent half-brothers Odo of Bayeux and Robert, Count of Mortain, born to Herleva's marriage to Herluin de Conteville.

Tishyarakshita (Pali: Tissarakkhā, Sanskrit: Tiṣyarakṣitā) was the last queen consort of Emperor Ashoka of the Maurya Empire in the 3rd century BCE. She is primarily known from Buddhist chronicles for her treacherous role in the Mauryan court, including her alleged involvement in the blinding of Kunala, Ashoka's heir, and the destruction of the original Bodhi Tree.

Malusha Malkovna () was allegedly an enslaved handmaiden (kholopka) for Olga of Kiev and a concubine of Sviatoslav I of Kiev. According to chronicles, she was the mother of Vladimir the Great and sister of Dobrynya. The Norse sagas describe Vladimir's mother as a prophetess who lived to the age of 100 and was brought from her cave to the palace to predict the future.

Antonia Caenis, (died 75 AD) a former slave and secretary of Antonia Minor (mother of the emperor Claudius), was Roman emperor Vespasian's contubernalis.

Sineenatha Bilaskalayani (born Niramon Ounprom, later Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi, 26 January 1985) is a Thai nurse and army officer who has been the Royal noble consort of the Thai monarch in 2019 and again since 28 August 2020 as the consort of King Vajiralongkorn (Rama X). The first consort in nearly a century, Sineenatha is also the first consort since the establishment of the constitutional monarchy in Thailand in 1932.

Story in the Book of Judges

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thumb|250px|Abner with Rizpah thumb|250px|Rizpah with her sons' bodies Rizpah (riz'-pa, "coal", "hot stone") was the daughter of Aiah, and one of Saul's concubines. She was the mother of Armoni and Mephibosheth (; ).

Russian tsaritsa

Mother of Osama bin Laden

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Mistress to King of Norway Harald I

Vietnamese queen