A list of all known Queens Regnant.
The following is a list of some queens who are well-known from popular writings, although many ancient and poorly-documented ruling queens (such as those from Africa and Oceania

Oceania

Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...

) are omitted.

Matamba

• Mwongo Matamba (ruled ?-1631)
• Ana I de Sousa Nzinga Mbande
  Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba
  Nzinga Mbande , also known as Ana de Sousa Nzinga Mbande, was a 17th century queen of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms of the Mbundu people in southwestern Africa.-Early life:...
  
   (ruled 1631-1663)
• Barbara (ruled 1663-1666)
• Verónica I Guterres Kandala Kingwanga (ruled 1681-1721)
• Ana II (ruled 1741-1756)
• Verónica II (ruled 1756-1758)
• Ana III (ruled 1758-?)

Ndongo

• Ana de Sousa Nzinga Mbande (ruled 1624-1626 and 1657-1663)
• Mukambu Mbandi (ruled 1663 - 1671)

Indigenous dynasties

Indigenous peoples

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• Nimaethap
  Nimaethap
  Nimaethap was a Queen of Ancient Egypt at the end of the Second Dynasty.- Biography :Nimaethap was possibly the wife of Pharaoh Khasekhemwy and the mother of Djoser, the first Pharaoh of the Third dynasty of Egypt...
  
   of the third dynasty
• Khentkaues
• Nitocris
  Nitocris
  Nitocris has been claimed to have been the last pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty. Her name is found in the Histories of Herodotus and writings of Manetho but her historicity is questionable. She might have been an interregnum queen...
  
   (disputed)
• Sobekneferu
  Sobekneferu
  Sobekneferu was an Egyptian pharaoh of the twelfth dynasty. Her name meant "the beauty of Sobek." She was the daughter of Pharaoh Amenemhat III. Manetho states she also was the sister of Amenemhat IV, but this claim is unproven. Sobekneferu had an older sister named Nefruptah who may have been...
  
  
• Hatshepsut
  Hatshepsut
  Hatshepsut also Hatchepsut; meaning Foremost of Noble Ladies;1508–1458 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt...
  
  
• Smenkhkare
  Smenkhkare
  Smenkhkare was an ephemeral Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh of the late Eighteenth Dynasty, of whom very little is known for certain...
  
   (disputed, possibly Nefertiti
  Nefertiti
  Nefertiti was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. Nefertiti and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they started to worship one god only...
  
   or Meritaten
  Meritaten
  Meritaten also spelled Merytaten or Meryetaten was an ancient Egyptian queen of the eighteenth dynasty, who held the position of Great Royal Wife to Pharaoh Smenkhkare, who may have been a brother or son of Akhenaten...
  
  )
• Twosret
  Twosret
  Queen Twosret was the last known ruler and the final Pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty.She is recorded in Manetho's Epitome as a certain Thuoris, who in Homer is called Polybus, husband of Alcandara, and in whose time Troy was taken. She was said to have ruled Egypt for seven years, but this...
  
  

Ptolemaic dynasties

• Berenice I of Egypt
  Berenice I of Egypt
  Berenice I was a Greek Macedonian noblewoman and through her marriage to Ptolemy I Soter, became the first Queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt.-Family:...
  
  
• Arsinoe I of Egypt
  Arsinoe I of Egypt
  Arsinoe I was a Greek Princess who was of Macedonian and Thessalian descent. She was the second daughter and youngest child born to the diadochus who was King of Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedonia Lysimachus from his first wife the Queen consort, Nicaea of Macedon...
  
  
• Arsinoe II of Egypt
  Arsinoe II of Egypt
  For other uses see, ArsinoeArsinoë II was a Ptolemaic Greek Princess of Ancient Egypt and through marriage was of Queen Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedonia as wife of King Lysimachus and later co-ruler of Egypt with her brother-husband Ptolemy II Philadelphus For other uses see, ArsinoeArsinoë II...
  
  
• Berenice II of Egypt
• Arsinoe III of Egypt
  Arsinoe III of Egypt
  Arsinoe III was Queen of Egypt . She was a daughter of Ptolemy III and Berenice II.Between late October and early November 220 BC she was married to her brother, Ptolemy IV. She took active part in the government of the country, at least in the measure that it was tolerated by the all-powerful...
  
  
• Cleopatra I of Egypt
  Cleopatra I of Egypt
  Cleopatra I Syra , c. 204–176 BC was a princess of the Seleucid Empire and by marriage, Queen of Ptolemaic Egypt.-Family:...
  
  
• Cleopatra II of Egypt
  Cleopatra II of Egypt
  Cleopatra II was a queen of Ptolemaic Egypt.-Family:Cleopatra II was the daughter of Ptolemy V and likely Cleopatra I. She was the sister of Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II Tryphon. She would eventually marry both of her brothers.Her first marriage was with her brother Ptolemy VI in ca....
  
  
• Cleopatra III of Egypt
  Cleopatra III of Egypt
  Cleopatra III was a queen of Egypt 142–101 BC.Cleopatra III was also known as Cleopatra Euergetis while associated with her husband Ptolemy VIII or her son Ptolemy X. She is attested as Cleopatra Philometor Soteira while associated with her eldest son Ptolemy IX...
  
  
• Cleopatra IV of Egypt
  Cleopatra IV of Egypt
  Cleopatra IV was Queen of Egypt briefly from 116-115 BC, jointly with her husband Ptolemy IX Lathyros. She later became queen consort of Syria as the wife of Antiochus IX Cyzicenus.-Biography:...
  
  
• Berenice III of Egypt
  Berenice III of Egypt
  Berenice III , sometimes called Cleopatra Berenice, ruled as queen of Egypt from 81 to 80 BC, and possibly from 101 to 88 BC jointly with her uncle/husband Ptolemy X Alexander I....
  
  
• Cleopatra V of Egypt
  Cleopatra V of Egypt
  Cleopatra V Tryphaena of Egypt was a Ptolemaic Queen of Egypt. She is the only surely attested wife of Ptolemy XII.-Descent and marriage:...
  
  
• Cleopatra VI of Egypt
  Cleopatra VI of Egypt
  Cleopatra VI Tryphaena was an Egyptian Ptolemaic queen. She may be identical with Cleopatra V.There were at least two, perhaps three Ptolemaic women called Cleopatra Tryphaena:-Tryphaena, daughter of Ptolemy VIII Physcon and Cleopatra III:...
  
  
• Berenice IV of Egypt
  Berenice IV of Egypt
  Berenice IV Epiphaneia born and died in Alexandria, Egypt. She was a Greek Princess of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Berenice was the daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes and probably Cleopatra V Tryphaena, sister of the famous Cleopatra VII , Arsinoe IV, Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV. Berenice loved...
  
  
• Cleopatra VII of Egypt
  Cleopatra VII of Egypt
  Cleopatra VII Philopator was the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a family of Greek origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great's death during the Hellenistic period...
  
  
• Arsinoe IV of Egypt
  Arsinoe IV of Egypt
  Arsinoë IV was the youngest daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes, and one of the last members of the Ptolemaic dynasty of ancient Egypt...
  
  

Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

• Makeda (c.1005-950 BCE), claimed to be Queen of Sheba
• Gudit
  Gudit
  Gudit is a semi-legendary, non-Christian, Beta Israel, queen who laid waste to Axum and its countryside, destroyed churches and monuments, and attempted to exterminate the members of the ruling Axumite dynasty...
  
   (fl. c.960)
• Zewditu (ruled 1916-1930)

Madagascar

Madagascar

The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...

 

• Rangita
  Rangita
  Queen Rangita , also known as Rangitamanjakatrimovavy, was a Vazimba sovereign who ruled at Merimanjaka in the central highlands of Madagascar after her father, King Andrianmpandramanenitra . She was succeeded upon her death by her daughter , Queen Rafohy...
  
   (ruled 1520-1530)
• Rafohy
  Rafohy
  Queen Rafohy was a Vazimba queen who ruled at Alasora in the central Highlands of Madagascar until her death. Her name means "The Short One." She succeeded upon the death of Vazimba Queen Rangita, who by different accounts was either her mother or her adoptive sister...
  
   (ruled 1530-1540)
• Ranavalona I
  Ranavalona I
  Ranavalona I , also known as Ranavalo-Manjaka I, was a sovereign of the Kingdom of Madagascar from 1828 to 1861...
  
   (ruled 1828-1861)
• Rasoherina
  Rasoherina of Madagascar
  Rasoherina was Queen of Madagascar from 1863 to 1868, succeeding her husband Radama II following his presumed assassination.-Early years:...
  
   (ruled 1863-1868)
• Ranavalona II (ruled 1868-1883)
• Ranavalona III
  Ranavalona III of Madagascar
  Ranavalona III was the last sovereign of the Kingdom of Madagascar. She ruled from July 30, 1883 to February 28, 1897 in a reign marked by ongoing and ultimately futile efforts to resist the colonial designs of the government of France...
  
   (ruled 1883-1897)

Nubia

Nubia

Nubia is a region along the Nile river, which is located in northern Sudan and southern Egypt.There were a number of small Nubian kingdoms throughout the Middle Ages, the last of which collapsed in 1504, when Nubia became divided between Egypt and the Sennar sultanate resulting in the Arabization...

Kandake

Kandake

Kandake or Kentake, also Candace, was the title for queens and queen mothers of the ancient African Kingdom of Kush, also known as Nubia and Ethiopia....

 was a title for queens, queen mothers, and queens consort in Nubia

Nubia

Nubia is a region along the Nile river, which is located in northern Sudan and southern Egypt.There were a number of small Nubian kingdoms throughout the Middle Ages, the last of which collapsed in 1504, when Nubia became divided between Egypt and the Sennar sultanate resulting in the Arabization...

, but ruling Kandake

Kandake

Kandake or Kentake, also Candace, was the title for queens and queen mothers of the ancient African Kingdom of Kush, also known as Nubia and Ethiopia....

s may have included

• Kadimalo (depicted in Semna)
• Makeda (c.1005-950 BCE), claimed to be Queen of Sheba
• Pelekh Candace of Meroe
  Candace of Meroe
  Candace of Meroe was the queen of Nubia at the time of the conquests of Alexander the Great. According to legend, Alexander encountered her when he invaded Nubia...
  
   (c. 345-332 BCE)
• Alakhebasken (c. 295 BCE)
• Shanakdakhete
  Shanakdakhete
  Shanakdakheto or Shanakdakhete was a Black African ruling queen of Kush, when the Kingdom was centered at Meroë. She is the earliest known ruling queen of Nubia, and reigned from about 177 to 155 BC...
  
   (177-155 BCE)
• Amanikhabale
  Amanikhabale
  Amanikhabale was a King of Kush .According to Reisner, Amanikhabale was buried in Pyramid 2 at the North cemetery at Meroe .-References:...
  
   (50-40 BCE)
• Amanirenas
  Amanirenas
  Amanirenas was a warrior-queen of Kingdom Kush.Her full name and title was Amnirense qore li kdwe li ....
  
   (40-10 BCE)
• Amanishakheto
  Amanishakheto
  Amanishakheto was a Kandake of Nubia. She seems to have reigned from 10 BC to 1 AD, although most dates of Nubian history before the Middle Ages are very uncertain.In Meroitic hieroglyphs her name is written as Amanikasheto...
  
   (c. 10 BCE-1 CE)
• Nawidemak
• Amanitore
  Amanitore
  Amanitore was a Nubian Kandake of the ancient Kushitic Kingdom of Meroë, which also is referred to as Nubia in many ancient sources. An alternate spelling is Kandace, Kandake, or Kentake. In Egyptian hieroglyphics the throne name of Amanitore reads as Merkare...
  
   (1 CE-20 CE)
• Amantitere (or Amanitaraqide?) (22-41)
• Amanikhatashan
  Amanikhatashan
  Amanikhatashan was a ruling queen of Kush . Her proper title is Kandake. Her pyramid is at Meroe in the Sudan. She was preceded by Amanitenmemide and succeeded by Teritnide....
  
   (62-85)
• Maleqorobar (266-283)
• Lakhideamani (306-314)

Balobedu

Balobedu

Balobedu is an African tribe of the Northern Sotho group. They have their own kingdom, the Balobedu Kingdom, within the Limpopo Province of South Africa with a female ruler, the Rain Queen Modjadji. Their language is known as Selobedu, which is a "non-Pedi" dialect of Northern Sotho...

The Modjadji

Rain Queen

The Modjadji or Rain Queen is the hereditary queen of Balobedu, a people of the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The succession to the position of Rain Queen is matrilineal, meaning that the Queen's eldest daughter is the heir, and that males are not entitled to inherit the throne at all...

 or Rain Queen

Rain Queen

The Modjadji or Rain Queen is the hereditary queen of Balobedu, a people of the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The succession to the position of Rain Queen is matrilineal, meaning that the Queen's eldest daughter is the heir, and that males are not entitled to inherit the throne at all...

 is the hereditary queen

Queen regnant

A queen regnant is a female monarch who reigns in her own right, in contrast to a queen consort, who is the wife of a reigning king. An empress regnant is a female monarch who reigns in her own right over an empire....

 of Balobedu

Balobedu

Balobedu is an African tribe of the Northern Sotho group. They have their own kingdom, the Balobedu Kingdom, within the Limpopo Province of South Africa with a female ruler, the Rain Queen Modjadji. Their language is known as Selobedu, which is a "non-Pedi" dialect of Northern Sotho...

, the people of the Limpopo Province of South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

. The succession to the position of Rain Queen is matrilineal

Matrilineal succession

Matrilineal succession is a form of hereditary succession or other inheritance through which the subject's female relatives are traced back in a matrilineal line.-Systems:...

, meaning that the Queen's eldest daughter is the heir, and that males are not entitled to inherit the throne at all. The Rain Queen is believed to have special powers, including the ability to control the cloud

Cloud

A cloud is a visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals made of water and/or various chemicals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body. They are also known as aerosols. Clouds in Earth's atmosphere are studied in the cloud physics branch of meteorology...

s and rainfall.

• Rain Queen I Maselekwane Modjadji (1800-1854)
• Rain Queen II Masalanabo Modjadji
  Masalanabo Modjadji
  Masalanabo Modjadji II was the second Rain Queen of the South African Balobedu tribe. Masalanabo reigned from 1854 to 1894. She was preceded by Rain Queen Maselekwane Modjadji I and succeeded by Rain Queen Khetoane Modjadji III....
  
   (1854-1894)
• Rain Queen III Khetoane Modjadji
  Khetoane Modjadji
  Khesetoane Modjadji III became the third Rain Queen from the South African Balobedu tribe of the South African Limpopo Province. Khesetoane reigned from 1895 to 1959. She was preceded by Rain Queen Masalanabo Modjadji and succeeded by Rain Queen Makoma Modjadji.In 1894 her predecessor, Masalanabo...
  
   (1895-1959)
• Rain Queen IV Makoma Modjadji
  Makoma Modjadji
  Rain Queen Makoma Modjadji IV was the fourth Rain Queen of the Balobedu tribe of the Limpopo Province of South Africa, succeeding her mother, Khetoane Modjadji in 1959 and reigning until her death. She married Andreas Maake, with whom she had several children. She was succeeded by her eldest...
  
   (1959-1980)
• Rain Queen V Mokope Modjadji
  Mokope Modjadji
  Mokope Modjadji V was the fifth Rain Queen of the Balobedu tribe in the Limpopo Province of South Africa from 1981 until her death in 2001.-Life:Mokope Modjadji was very traditional in her role as Rain Queen...
  
   (1981-2001)
• Rain Queen VI Makobo Modjadji
  Makobo Modjadji
  Makobo Modjadji VI was the 6th in a line of the Balobedu tribe's Rain Queens. It is said that Makobo Modjadji had the ability to control the clouds and rivers. Makobo was crowned on 16 April 2003 at the age of 25 after the death of her predecessor and grandmother, Queen Mokope Modjadji...
  
   (2003-2005)

Naranjo

Naranjo

Naranjo is an ancient city of the Maya civilization in the Petén Basin region of the central Maya lowlands. It is located in the present-day department of Petén, Guatemala about 10 km west of the border with Belize. It is located within the area of the Cultural Triangle of Yaxha, Nakum, Naranjo...

• Wac Chanil Ahau, also known as Lady Six Sky (ruled 682-741)

Palenque

Palenque

Palenque was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that flourished in the 7th century. The Palenque ruins date back to 100 BC to its fall around 800 AD...

• Ix Yohl Ik'nal (ruled 583-604)
• Sak K'uk', also known as Muwaan Mat (ruled 612-615)

China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

There have been four empresses regnant documented in Chinese history. However Wu Zetian is the only undisputed empress regnant in the Chinese history, the other three being-
元氏，who is just a baby when succeed to the throne as a baby boy to stabilize the country and later abdicated after few months.
文佳皇帝陈硕真 who lead a peasant revolt in 653AD but failed.
西辽承天皇帝耶律普速完 of Liao, who is a regent due to the fact that her nephews are too young, planned to ascend the throne but discovered and killed by her prince consort's father in a Coup d'état.
There have been many powerful empress consorts or empress dowager

Dowager

A dowager is a widow who holds a title or property, or dower, derived from her deceased husband. As an adjective, "Dowager" usually appears in association with monarchical and aristocratic titles....

s, some of whom effectively ruled, as noted below. Powerful empress consorts or empress dowagers were de facto rulers, but not de jure empress regnants. A concubine who gave birth to a crown prince also could become empress dowager(太妃）, although her status still was a little lower than an empress dowager who had been the former empress consort which will be known as 太后。

• Wu Zetian
  Wu Zetian
  Wu Zetian , personal name Wu Zhao , often referred to as Tian Hou during the Tang Dynasty and Empress Consort Wu in later times, was the only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Empress Regnant...
  
   武則天 (ruled 684-705, reigned 690-705) - the sole official Chinese Empress Regnant, the empress consort of Tang Gaozong
  Emperor Gaozong of Tang
  Emperor Gaozong of Tang , personal name Li Zhi , was the third emperor of the Tang Dynasty in China, ruling from 649 to 683...
  
  , the mother of Tang Zhongzong
  Emperor Zhongzong of Tang
  Emperor Zhongzong of Tang , personal name Lǐ Xiǎn , at times during his life Li Zhe and Wu Xian , was the fourth Emperor of the Tang Dynasty of China, ruling briefly in 684 and again from 705 to 710.Emperor Zhongzong was the son of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Empress Wu...
  
   and Tang Ruizong
  Emperor Ruizong of Tang
  Emperor Ruizong of Tang , personal name Lǐ Dàn , known at times during his life as Li Xulun , Li Lun , Wu Lun , and Wu Dan , was the fifth and ninth emperor of Tang Dynasty...
  
  , she established the Zhou Dynasty (also known as Wu Zhou 武周) after dismissing her sons and becoming the Empress Regnant

Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 

• Queen Himiko, of Yamatai
  Yamataikoku
  or is the Sino-Japanese name of an ancient country in Wa during the late Yayoi period . The Chinese history Sanguo Zhi first recorded Yemetaiguo or Yemayiguo as the domain of shaman Queen Himiko...
  
  
• Queen Toyo, of Yamatai
  Yamataikoku
  or is the Sino-Japanese name of an ancient country in Wa during the late Yayoi period . The Chinese history Sanguo Zhi first recorded Yemetaiguo or Yemayiguo as the domain of shaman Queen Himiko...
  
  
• Empress Jingū (ruled 206–209?) — legendary and possibly mythical; removed from the list of Emperors in the nineteenth century
• Empress Iitoyo
• Empress Suiko
  Empress Suiko
  was the 33rd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.Suiko's reign spanned the years from 593 until her death in 628....
  
   (554-628), (ruled 593–628) — first ruling empress
• Empress Kōgyoku
  Empress Kogyoku
  , also known as , was the 35th and 37th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.Kōgyoku's reign spanned the years from 642-645. Her reign as Saimei encompassed 655-661...
  
   (594-661), (ruled 642–645) — formerly Princess Takara (Empress Consort of Jomei)
• Empress Saimei (594-661), (ruled 655–661) - same person as Empress Kōgyoku, second reign under a second name
• Empress Jitō
  Empress Jito
  was the 41st emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.Jitō's reign spanned the years from 686 through 697.In the history of Japan, Jitō was the third of eight women to take on the role of empress regnant. The two female monarchs before Jitō were Suiko and Kōgyoku/Saimei...
  
   (645-702), (ruled 690–697)
• Empress Gemmei
  Empress Gemmei
  , also known as Empress Genmyō, was the 43rd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.Gemmei's reign spanned the years 707 through 715....
  
   (661-721), (ruled 707–715)
• Empress Genshō
  Empress Gensho
  was the 44th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.Genshō's reign spanned the years 715 through 724.In the history of Japan, Genshō was the fifth of eight women to take on the role of empress regnant. The four female monarchs before Genshō were: Suiko, Kōgyoku/Saimei,...
  
   (680-748), (ruled 715–724) — formerly Princess Hidaka
• Empress Kōken
  Empress Koken
  , also known as , was the 46th and the 48th emperor of Japan respectively, according to the traditional order of succession. Empress Kōken first reigned from 749 to 758, then she reascended the throne as Empress Shōtoku from 765 until her death in 770....
  
   (718-770), (ruled 749–758)
• Empress Shōtoku (718-770), (ruled 764–770) - same person as Empress Kōken, second reign under a second name
• Empress Meishō
  Empress Meisho
  was the 109th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.Meishō's reign spanned the years from 1629 to 1643.In the history of Japan, Meishō was the seventh of eight women to become empress regnant. The six female monarchs who reigned before Meishō-tennō were Suiko, ...
  
   (1624–1696), (ruled 1629–1643)
• Empress Go-Sakuramachi
  Empress Go-Sakuramachi
  was the 117th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.Go-Sakuramachi's reign spanned the years from 1762 through 1771....
  
   (1740–1813), (ruled 1762–1771) — most recent ruling empress

Silla

Silla

Silla was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, and one of the longest sustained dynasties in...

• Queen Seondeok of Silla
  Queen Seondeok of Silla
  Queen Seondeok of Silla reigned as Queen of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 632 to 647. She was Silla's twenty-seventh ruler, and its first reigning queen...
  
   (ruled 632-647)
• Jindeok of Silla
  Jindeok of Silla
  Queen Jindeok of Silla reigned as Queen of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 647 to 654. She was the kingdom's 28th ruler, and its second reigning queen following her predecessor Queen Seondeok. During her reign, Silla jockeyed with Baekje for favor in the Chinese Tang court...
  
   (ruled 647-652)
• Jinseong of Silla
  Jinseong of Silla
  Queen Jinseong of Silla was the fifty-first to ruler of the Korean kingdom, Silla. She was also Silla's third and final reigning queen . Her reign saw the end of Unified Silla and the beginning of the Later Three Kingdoms period.Jinseong was the daughter of King Gyeongmun...
  
   (ruled 887-897)

Middle East

Elymais

Elymais

Elymais or Elamais was a semi-independent state of the 2nd century BC to the early 3rd century AD, frequently a vassalary under Parthian control, and located at the head of the Persian Gulf in the present-day region of Khuzestan, Iran...

• Anzaze
  Anzaze
  Anzaze was a queen of the Elymais . She appears on coins together with king Kamnaskires III . They perhaps ruled together as on the coins she is called βασιλίσσης...
  
   (ruled about 82/81 to 75 BC, following dates on the coins), she appears on coins together with king Kamnaskires III
  Kamnaskires III
  Kamnaskires III was a king of the Elymais. The Elymais was a Parthian vassal kingdom in nowadays South-western Iran. Following the dating on his coins he reigned from about 82/81 BC to 75 BC....
  
  ; it was not common on Ancient coins that king and queens appear together and this fact would support her special status

Greater Iran

Greater Iran

Greater Iran refers to the regions that have significant Iranian cultural influence. It roughly corresponds to the territory on the Iranian plateau and its bordering plains, stretching from Iraq, the Caucasus, and Turkey in the west to the Indus River in the east...

• Tomyris
  Tomyris
  Tomyris, from the Persian تهم‌رییش Tahm-Rayiš, was a queen who reigned over the Massagetae, an Iranic people of Central Asia east of the Caspian Sea, in approximately 530 BC.- History :...
  
  , Queen of the Massagetae
  Massagetae
  The Massageteans or Massagetaeans were an Iranian nomadic confederation in antiquity known primarily from the writings of Herodotus. Their name was probably akin to Thyssagetae.-Name:...
  
   (ruled c. 530 BC)
• Olympias
  Olympias
  Olympias was a Greek princess of Epirus, daughter of king Neoptolemus I of Epirus, the fourth wife of the king of Macedonia, Philip II, and mother of Alexander the Great...
  
   (ruled 317-316 BC)
• Musa of Parthia
  Musa of Parthia
  Musa was Queen of Parthia c. 2 BC – AD 4. She is called as Thermusa by Josephus and is also known as Thea Urania . She was a concubine given by the Roman Emperor Augustus to King Phraates IV of Parthia...
  
   (ruled 2 BC-4 AD)
• Borandukht (ruled 630-631)
• Azarmidokht
  Azarmidokht
  Azarmidokht was the twenty-seventh Sassanid Monarch of Persia, and daughter of Khosrau II. She ruled Persia after her sister Purandokht.After the death of her father Khosrau II anarchy spread in the Sassanid empire. The subsequent rulers could stay for only a relatively brief time on the throne,...
  
   (sister of Borandukht, ruled 631-632)

Crusader

Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars, blessed by the Pope and the Catholic Church with the main goal of restoring Christian access to the holy places in and near Jerusalem...

 Kingdom of Jerusalem

Kingdom of Jerusalem

The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Catholic kingdom established in the Levant in 1099 after the First Crusade. The kingdom lasted nearly two hundred years, from 1099 until 1291 when the last remaining possession, Acre, was destroyed by the Mamluks, but its history is divided into two distinct periods....

 

• Melisende
  Melisende of Jerusalem
  Melisende was Queen of Jerusalem from 1131 to 1153, and regent for her son between 1153 and 1161 while he was on campaign. She was the eldest daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, and the Armenian princess Morphia of Melitene. She was named after her paternal grandmother, Melisende of...
  
   (ruled 1131–1153)
• Sibylla
  Sibylla of Jerusalem
  Sibylla of Jerusalem was the Countess of Jaffa and Ascalon from 1176 and Queen of Jerusalem from 1186 to 1190. She was the eldest daughter of Amalric I of Jerusalem and Agnes of Courtenay, sister of Baldwin IV and half-sister of Isabella I of Jerusalem, and mother of Baldwin V of Jerusalem...
  
   (ruled 1186-1190)
• Isabella I (ruled 1190/92-1205)
• Maria
  Maria of Montferrat
  Maria of Montferrat was Queen of Jerusalem, the daughter of Conrad of Montferrat and Isabella, Queen of Jerusalem...
  
   (ruled 1205-1212)
• Isabella II, also known as Yolande of Jerusalem, (ruled 1212–1228)

Kingdom of Kedar

Qedarite

The Qedarites were a largely nomadic, ancient Arab tribal confederation...

• Zabibe
  Zabibe
  Zabibe was a queen of Qedar who reigned for five years between 738 and 733 BC. She was a vassal of Tiglath-Pileser III, king of Assyria. She was succeeded by another queen, Samsi, who also reigned for five years...
  
   (ruled c.750-735 BC)
• Samsi
  Samsi
  Samsi was an Arab queen who reigned in the 8th century BCE. As an ally of Rakhianu of Damascus, she fought the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III in 732 BCE. After her forces were defeated, she fled the battlefield. Later, she went to Assyria to pay tribute to the king and was permitted to reign,...
  
   (ruled c.735-710 BC)
• Yatie
  Yatie
  Yatie was a queen of Qedar who ruled in the 8th century BC, circa 730 BC.Yatie sent her forces, headed by her brother Baasqanu, to aid Merodach-Baladan in his bid to hold onto Babylon...
  
   (ruled c.710-695 BC)
• Te'elkhunu (ruled 695-690 BC)
• Tabua

Nabatea

• Chuldu (ruled 9 BC-40 AD), she ruled jointly with her husband Aretas IV Philopatris
  Aretas IV Philopatris
  Aretas IV Philopatris was the King of the Nabataeans from roughly 9 BC to AD 40.His full title, as given in the inscriptions, was "Aretas, King of the Nabataeans, Friend of his People." Being the most powerful neighbour of Judea, he frequently took part in the state affairs of that country, and was...
  
  
• Shaqilath
  Shaqilath
  Shaqilath is the daughter of Aretas IV of the Nabataeans. She ruled jointly with her husband-brother Malichus II . After his death she was regent for her son Rabel II. Copper coins where she is depicted with her husband and coins of her with her son have been recovered.-References:*...
  
   (ruled 40-70/71), she ruled jointly with her husband-brother Malichus II
  Malichus II
  Malichus II ruled Nabatea from 40 to 70.During his reign, Nabataean power decreased. The Romans had diverted the routes of spice and perfume cargo shipments to Egypt. Rome was very powerful, so Malichus cooperated. In 66, a Jewish revolt occurred in Iudaea...
  
  ; after his death she was regent for her son Rabbel II Soter
  Rabbel II Soter
  Rabel II Soter was the last ruler of the kingdom of the Nabataea, ruling from AD 70 to 106.After the death of his father, Malichus II, ar-Rabil still a child, ascended to the throne. His mother, Shaqilath, assumed control of the government in the early years. His sister Gamilath became queen of...
  
  
• Gamilath (ruled 70/71-106), she ruled jointly with her brother Rabbel II Soter
  Rabbel II Soter
  Rabel II Soter was the last ruler of the kingdom of the Nabataea, ruling from AD 70 to 106.After the death of his father, Malichus II, ar-Rabil still a child, ascended to the throne. His mother, Shaqilath, assumed control of the government in the early years. His sister Gamilath became queen of...
  
  

Sulayhid dinasty

• Arwa al-Sulayhi
  Arwa al-Sulayhi
  Arwa al-Sulayhi c. 1048–1138,death:22nd Shabaan,532 AH) was the long-reigning ruler of Yemen, firstly through her first two husbands and then as sole ruler, from 1067 until her death in 1138...
  
   (ruled 1067-1138), she ruled Yemen
  Yemen
  The Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east....
  
   firstly through her first two husbands and then as sole ruler; she was the greatest of the rulers of the Sulayhid Dynasty

Sumer

Sumerian king list

The Sumerian King List is an ancient manuscript originally recorded in the Sumerian language, listing kings of Sumer from Sumerian and neighboring dynasties, their supposed reign lengths, and the locations of "official" kingship...

• Kubaba
  Kubaba
  Kubaba is the only queen on the Sumerian King List, which states she reigned for 100 years – roughly in the Early Dynastic III period of Sumerian history...
  
  , Queen of Kish
  Kish (Sumer)
  Kish is modern Tell al-Uhaymir , and was an ancient city of Sumer. Kish is located some 12 km east of Babylon, and 80 km south of Baghdad ....
  
   (ruled c.25th century BC)

India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

Holkar dynasty

Holkar

The Holkar dynasty , whose earliest known clan-man was Malhar Rao, who joined the service of the Peshwa in 1721, and quickly rose to the ranks of Subedar...

• Ahilyabai Holkar
  Ahilyabai Holkar
  Punyashlok Rajmata Devi Ahilyabai Holkar , also known as the Philosopher Queen, was a Holkar dynasty Queen of the Malwa kingdom, India. She is often compared with Catherine II of Russia, Elizabeth I of England, Margaret I of Denmark...
  
   (ruled 1767-1795), also known as the Philosopher Queen

Madurai Nayak dynasty

Madurai Nayak Dynasty

The Madurai Nayaks or Nayak Dynasty of Madurai were rulers of a region comprising most of modern-day Tamil Nadu, India, with Madurai as their capital...

• Rani Mangammal of Madurai Nayak Dynasty
  Madurai Nayak Dynasty
  The Madurai Nayaks or Nayak Dynasty of Madurai were rulers of a region comprising most of modern-day Tamil Nadu, India, with Madurai as their capital...
  
   (ruled 1684-1703)
• Meenakshi
  Meenakshi (Nayak queen)
  Meenakshi was the last ruler in the Madurai Nayaks line. She was the granddaughter-in-law of Rani Mangammal.Vijaya Ranga Chokkanatha died in 1731, and was succeeded by his widow Meenakshi, who acted as Queen-Regent on behalf of a young boy she had adopted as the heir of her dead husband...
  
   of Madurai Nayak Dynasty
  Madurai Nayak Dynasty
  The Madurai Nayaks or Nayak Dynasty of Madurai were rulers of a region comprising most of modern-day Tamil Nadu, India, with Madurai as their capital...
  
   (ruled 1731-1736)

Mamluk dynasty

• Raziyyat-ud-din Sultana of Slave Dynasty
  Slave dynasty
  The Slave Dynasty or Mamluk Dynasty or Ghulam Dynasty , was directed into India by Qutb-ud-din Aybak, a Turkic general of Central Asian birth. It was the first of five unrelated dynasties to rule India's Delhi Sultanate from 1206 to 1290...
  
   (ruled 1236-1240)

Princely States 

• Gowri Lakshmi Bayi of Travancore
  Travancore
  Kingdom of Travancore was a former Hindu feudal kingdom and Indian Princely State with its capital at Padmanabhapuram or Trivandrum ruled by the Travancore Royal Family. The Kingdom of Travancore comprised most of modern day southern Kerala, Kanyakumari district, and the southernmost parts of...
  
   (ruled 1811-1814)

The Begums of Bopal

Begum of Bhopal

The Nawabs of Bhopal were the Muslim rulers of the princely state of Bhopal, now part of the modern state of Madhya Pradesh, in India. The last Nawab was Hamidullah Khan, who acceded his state to India in 1947....

were several women who ruled the princely state

Princely state

A Princely State was a nominally sovereign entitity of British rule in India that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule such as suzerainty or paramountcy.-British relationship with the Princely States:India under the British Raj ...

 of Bhopal

Bhopal (state)

Bhopal State was an independent state of 18th century India, a princely salute state in a subsidiary alliance with British India from 1818 to 1947, and an independent country from 1947 to 1949...

 in Central India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 in the 19th and 20th centuries.

• Qudsia Begum, Regent of Bhopal (regent from 1819–1837)
• Begum Sultan Shah Jehan
  Sultan Shah Jahan, Begum of Bhopal
  Sultan Shahjahan Begum GCSI CI KIH was the Begum of Bhopal for two times: 1844–60, and secondly during 1868–1901....
  
   (ruled from 1844–1860 and 1868–1901)
• Begum Nawab Sikandar (ruled from 1860–1868)
• Begum Kaikhusrau Jahan
  Kaikhusrau Jahan, Begum of Bhopal
  Nawab Begum Dame Sultan Kaikhusrau Jahan GCSI GCIE GBE GCStJ CI KIH was a notable and progressive Begum of Bhopal who ruled from 1901 to 1926.-Early life:...
  
   (ruled from 1901–1926)
• Begum Sajida Sultan
  Sajida Sultan, Begum of Bhopal
  Sajida Sultan was a Begum of Bhopal in her own right, and consort to a Nawab of Pataudi.Sajida was the second daughter of Nawab Hamidullah Khan, last ruling Nawab of Bhopal. She was the grand daughter of Begum Sultan Jahan, the fourth ruling queen of Bhopal...
  
   (ruled from 1961–1995)

Kashmir

Kashmir

Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range...

• Sugandha
  Sugandha
  Sugandha was the Queen and Regent of Kashmir during the 10th century. At this time, two opposing military factions were vying for ascendancy in Kashmir: the Ekangas and the Tantrins, a wild, ungovernable, and unpredictable clan. Queen Sugandha allied herself with the Ekangas in order to maintain...
  
   (ruled in 10th century)
• Didda
  Didda
  Didda was ruler of Kashmir from 958 AD to 1003 AD, first as a Regent for her son and various grandsons, and thereafter as sole ruler in her own right...
  
   (ruled 980-1003), she ruled first as a Regent for her son Abhimanyu and thereafter as sole ruler in her own right

Maldives

Maldives

The Maldives , , officially Republic of Maldives , also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls oriented north-south off India's Lakshadweep islands, between Minicoy Island and...

• Damahaar (ruled before 990) - Damahaar, a Ranin (Queen) of the Aadeetta (Sun) Dynasty, is mentioned by al-Idrisi
  Muhammad al-Idrisi
  Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti or simply Al Idrisi was a Moroccan Muslim geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II. Muhammed al-Idrisi was born in Ceuta then belonging to the Almoravid Empire and died in...
  
   as having reigned over the Maldives
  Maldives
  The Maldives , , officially Republic of Maldives , also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls oriented north-south off India's Lakshadweep islands, between Minicoy Island and...
  
   at some time before the semi-legendary King Koimala; there are several other mentions by foreign travelers, mainly Arabs, of queens ruling over the Maldives at various times; these are not always named and their reigns cannot be precisely dated
• Khadijah
  Khadijah of the Maldives
  Al-Sultana Khadeejah Sri Raadha Abaarana Mahaa Rehendhi or more famously known as just Rehendhi Khadeejah meaning, Queen Khadeejah, was the Sultana of the Maldives from 1347 to 1380. She is one of the earliest female heads of state in a Muslim nation...
  
   (ruled 1347-1363, 1364-1374 and 1376-1380)
• Raadhafathi
  Raadhafathi of the Maldives
  Al-Sultana Raadhafathi Sri Suvama Abaarana Mahaa Rehendhi was the Sultana of the Maldives from 1379 to 1380. She was the third daughter of Sultan Omar I of the Maldives and ascended the throne of the Maldives after the death of her sister, Rehendhi Khadijah...
  
   (ruled 1380)
• Dhaain
  Dhaain of the Maldives
  Sultana rehendhi dhaain kabaidhi kilage was the Sultana of the Maldives from 1375 to 1377. She was the daughter of Sultan Mohamed I of the Maldives and succeeded to the throne after his death. She was forced to abdicate in favor of her husband, who then became Sultan Abdullah II of the Maldives....
  
   (ruled 1385-1388)

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

• Anula (ruled 47-42 BC)
• Sivali (ruled 35 BC)
• Lilavati (ruled 1197-1200, 1209–1210 and 1211–1212)
• Kalyanavati (ruled 1202-1208)

Aceh

Aceh

Aceh is a special region of Indonesia, located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra. Its full name is Daerah Istimewa Aceh , Nanggroë Aceh Darussalam and Aceh . Past spellings of its name include Acheh, Atjeh and Achin...

• Seri Ratu Niharsyah (ruled 1400-1427), the Sultana of Samudera Pasai
• Seri Ratu Ta'jul Alam Shah (ruled 1641-1675) the Sultana of Atjeh (Aceh) Darussalam, formerly known as Puteri Seri Alam the Daughter of The Great Sultan Iskandar Muda
  Iskandar Muda
  Iskandar Muda was the twelfth Sultan of Aceh, under whom the sultanate achieved its greatest territorial extent, and was the strongest power and wealthiest state in the western Indonesian archipelago and the Strait of Malacca. "Iskandar Muda" literally means "young Alexander," and his conquests...
  
  , and wife of Sultan Iskandar Thani
  Iskandar Thani
  Iskandar Thani Alauddin Mughayat Syah was the thirteenth sultan of Aceh, following the powerful Iskandar Muda. Iskandar Thani was the son of the sultan of Pahang, Ahmad Syah, who was brought to Aceh in the conquest of Pahang in 1617 by Iskandar Muda...
  
  
• Seri Ratu Keumalat Shah (ruled 1675-1678) the god-daughter of Ratu Ta'jul Alam
• Seri Ratu Inayat Shah (ruled 1678-1688) the god-daughter of Ratu Ta'jul Alam
• Seri Ratu Kamalat Syah (ruled 1688-1699), the god-daughter of Ratu Ta'jul Alam - she was deposed and replaced by her husband under pressure from the Mufti of Mecca
  Mecca
  Mecca is a city in the Hijaz and the capital of Makkah province in Saudi Arabia. The city is located inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of above sea level...
  
  

Cambodia

Cambodia

Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...

 

• Queen Somâ (180-90) - The earliest Queen and Leader in Cambodian history
  History of Cambodia
  - Prehistory and early history :Carbon 14 dating of a cave at Laang Spean in northwest Cambodia reveals people who made pots were living in Cambodia as early as 4200 BCE . Further archaeological evidence indicates that other parts of the region now called Cambodia were inhabited from around...
  
  .
• Queen Regnant Kambuja-raja-lakshmi (575-580) - Maternal cousin of king Sresthavarman and the daughter of king Viravarman. She was married to king Bhavavarman I. It was through her that he inherited the royal lineage.
• Queen Jaya Devi (680-713) - During her rule, She was faulted in leadership which lead The Chenla kingdom to break into two individual stat but then it record the period to be female-dominated dynasty with the wide range of female successors, totally driving the entire kingdom.
• Queen Regnant Indrani (750) - The heiress to the Kingdom, she was married to Puskarasha, son of Queen Regnant Jayadevi of Chenla, and he afterwards became King.
• Queen Regnant Jayendrabha (750 - 803) - Also known as Jayendravallabha, she was the daughter of Queen Nrpendradevi and Rajendravarman. She was married to king Jayavarman II, who established himself as king of Indrapura in 781.
• Queen Regnant Jyestha of Sambhupura (803-34) - She was the daughter of Queen Jayendra[valla]bha and King Jayavarman II. She described herself as queen of Sambhupura in 803.
• Queen Li (1688) - known ith Queen Li of Samdach Brhat Bhagavathi Sri Parama Chakrapati Kshatriyi. Born as H.H. Princess (Brhat Anak Anga) Li, daughter of H.M. Brhat Bat Machas Brhat Dharmanath Prabhunatha Maha Upayuvaraja Parama Raja – also known as Paramaraja VIII. First married her halfbrother King Pramaraja IX, who was killed in 1672, and secondly married to nephew, King Jaya Jatha III. She was granted the rank of Queen with the title of Samdach Brhat Bhagavathi Sri Parama Chakrapati Kshatriyi in 1688, when she acted as regent for husband.
• Queen Brhat Maha Kshatriyi (1715) - Born as Princess Brhat Maha Kshatriyi, granted the title of Akka Maha Sri in 1700, she was elder daughter of King Jaya Jatha IV. Regent for husband.
• Queen Ang Mey
  Ang Mey
  Ang Mey was the 97th Monarch ruler during the Udong era of Cambodia. She is famous for being one of few female rulers in Cambodia's History. Installed on the Cambodian throne by the Vietnamese, she reigned during the domination of Siamese-Vietnamese War Queen Ang Mey Also known as Queen...
  
   (1835–1841 and 1844–1845) - Also known as Queen Ba-cong-chua or Ksat Trey, she was proclaimed on the death of her father by the Vietnamese faction at court with the title of My-lam-quan-chua in January 1835. She was famous to begin thought of puppet queen to Annam.
• Queen Kossomak Nearieath (1960–70) - she was crowned with her husband King Norodom Suramit after her son, King Norodom Shihanonk's abdication.

Majapahit

• Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi
  Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi
  Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi or known in her regnal name Tribhuwannottunggadewi Jayawishnuwardhani, was a Javanese queen regnant and the third monarch of Majapahit empire, reigning from 1328 to 1350...
  
   (ruled 1328-1350)
• Suhita
  Suhita
  Suhita was a Javanese queen regnant and the sixth monarch of the Majapahit empire, ruling from 1429 to 1447. She was the daughter of Wikramawardhana, her predecessor, by a concubine who was the daughter of Wirabhumi, who was killed in the civil war with Wikramawardhana...
  
   (ruled 1429-1447)

Pattani

Pattani kingdom

Pattani or Sultanate of Pattani was a Malay sultanate that covered approximately the area of the modern Thai provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and much of the northern part of modern Malaysia. The King of Patani is believed to have converted to Islam some time during the 11th century...

• Raja Hijau, the Green Queen (ruled 1584-1616)
• Raja Biru
  Raja Biru
  Ratu Biru ruled the Sultanate of Patani , succeeding her sister Ratu Hijau. She was the second of three daughters of Sultan Manzur Shah who ruled the country. She was succeeded by her sister Ratu Ungu. In Malay, her name means "Blue" or "Blue Queen."- References :* A. Teeuw & D. K. Wyatt....
  
  , the Blue Queen (ruled 1616-1624)
• Raja Ungu
  Raja Ungu
  Ratu Ungu ruled the Sultanate of Patani , succeeding her sister Ratu Biru. She was the third successive and last daughter of Sultan Mansur Shah to rule the country and was succeeded by her daughter Ratu Kuning...
  
  , the Purple Queen (ruled 1624-1635)
• Raja Kuning, the Yellow Queen (ruled 1635-1649/88), controversy surrounds the exact date of the end of her reign)
• Raja Emas Kelantan (ruled 1670–1698 or 1690-1704), thought by Teeuw & Wyatt to be a king, but claimed by al-Fatani to be a queen, the widow of Raja Bakal and mother of the succeeding queen
• Raja Emas Chayam (ruled 1698–1702 or 1704-1707 and 1716–1718)

Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

 

• Dayang Kalangitan
  Dayang Kalangitan
  Dayang Kalangitan was the Queen regnant of Tondo, the eldest daughter of Rajah Gambang, and the co-ruler of her husband Gat Lontok. She was considered to be one of the more powerful rulers of the kingdom that spanned swaths of land around the Pasig River, enlarging the kingdom's...
  
  , Queen of Kingdom of Namayan
  Kingdom of Namayan
  The ancient Kingdom of Namayan, alternately referred to as the Kingdom of Sapa, Maysapan or Nasapan after its capital which goes by those names, was one of three major kingdoms that dominated the area around the upper portion of the Pasig River and the coast of Laguna Lake in the Philippines before...
  
   and Tondo (ruled 1450-1515)

Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

• Jamadevi
  Jamadevi
  Queen Jamadevi , also known as Nang Chamthewi of Hariphunchai, Channa Devi or Channadevi .First ruler of the Mon kingdom of Hariphunchai . She gave birth to twins, one of whom succeeded her as ruler of Lamphun Queen Jamadevi (Thai: พระนางจามเทวี) (Pali: Camadevi), also known as Nang Chamthewi of...
  
   First ruler of the Mon kingdom of Hariphunchai
• Chiraprabha Queen of Lanna Kingdom (ruled 1545-1546)
• Visutthidevi Queen of Lanna Kingdom (ruled 1564-1578)

Spanning Africa and Asia

Spanning Asia and Europe

Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

• Erato
  Erato of Armenia
  Erato was a Princess, queen of Armenia and the last member on the throne of the Artaxiad Dynasty. She was the daughter of Armenian King Tigranes III and half-sister/wife of King Tigranes IV. In the centuries before Christianity, incestuous marriages were common at Hellenistic courts in order to...
  
   (ruled 12-2 BC, 2-1 BC and 11-12 AD)
• Zarmandukht (ruled 378-384)

Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire during the periods of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, centred on the capital of Constantinople. Known simply as the Roman Empire or Romania to its inhabitants and neighbours, the Empire was the direct continuation of the Ancient Roman State...

• Irene (ruled 797-802)
• Zoe
  Zoe (empress)
  Zoe reigned as Byzantine Empress alongside her sister Theodora from April 19 to June 11, 1042...
  
   (ruled 1042) - she ruled as empress consort between 1028 and 1050; she ruled as ruling empress only in 1042, jointly with her sister Theodora
• Theodora
  Theodora (11th century)
  Theodora was a Byzantine Empress. Born into the Macedonian dynasty that had ruled the Byzantine Empire for almost two hundred years, she was co-empress with her sister Zoe for two months in 1042 and sole empress from 11 January 1055 to after 31 August 1056...
  
   (ruled 1042 and 1055-1056) - she ruled in 1042 jointly with her sister Zoe; she ruled then from 1055 until her death as sole monarch

Caria

Caria

Caria was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionian and Dorian Greeks colonized the west of it and joined the Carian population in forming Greek-dominated states there...

• Artemisia I
  Artemisia I of Caria
  Artemisia I of Caria became the ruler, after the death of her husband, as a client of the Persians – who in the 5th century BC ruled as the overlords of Ionia....
  
   (ruled c.480 BC)
• Artemisia II
  Artemisia II of Caria
  Artemisia II of Caria was a sister, the wife and the successor of the king Mausolus. She was a daughter of Hecatomnus, and after the death of her husband she reigned for two years, from 353 to 351 BC...
  
   (ruled 353-351 BC)
• Ada
  Ada of Caria
  Ada of Caria was satrap of Caria in the 4th century BC.Ada was the daughter of Hecatomnus, satrap of Caria, and sister of Mausolus, Artemisia, Idrieus, and Pixodarus. She was married to her brother Idrieus, who succeeded Artemisia in 351 BC and died in 344 BC...
  
   (ruled 344-340 BC, then from 334 BC)

Crusader

Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars, blessed by the Pope and the Catholic Church with the main goal of restoring Christian access to the holy places in and near Jerusalem...

 Kingdom of Cyprus

Kingdom of Cyprus

The Kingdom of Cyprus was a Crusader kingdom on the island of Cyprus in the high and late Middle Ages, between 1192 and 1489. It was ruled by the French House of Lusignan.-History:...

• Charlotte
  Charlotte of Cyprus
  Charlotte , was Queen of Cyprus and Princess of Antioch, as well as titular Queen of Jerusalem and Armenia.She was the eldest and only surviving daughter of King John II of Cyprus and Helena Palaiologina. At the age of 14, she succeeded to the Cypriot throne upon the death of her father in 1458...
  
   (ruled 1458-1464)
• Catherine Cornaro
  Catherine Cornaro
  Nobil Donna Catherine Cornaro was Queen of Cyprus from 1474 to 1489 and declared a "Daughter of Saint Mark" in order that Venice could claim control of Cyprus after the death of her husband, James II .-Family:She was born in Venice in 1454 and was the daughter of a well-known and powerful family of...
  
   (ruled 1474-1489)

Dardania

• Tania
  Tania (queen)
  According to Polyaenus, Tania was a queen of ancient Dardania. She took the throne after her husband's death, and she personally went into battle, riding on a chariot. She was an excellent general who was never defeated. She had one daughter who married one of her trusted soldiers. A year after the...
  
  , queen of ancient Dardania according to Polyaenus
  Polyaenus
  Polyaenus or Polyenus vs. e]]; , "many proverbs") was a 2nd century Macedonian author, known best for his Stratagems in War , which has been preserved. The Suda calls him a rhetorician, and Polyaenus himself writes that he was accustomed to plead causes before the emperor...
  
  

Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

• Tamar
  Tamar of Georgia
  Tamar , of the Bagrationi dynasty, was Queen Regnant of Georgia from 1184 to 1213. Tamar presided over the "Golden age" of the medieval Georgian monarchy...
  
   (ruled 1184-1213)
• Rusudan
  Rusudan of Georgia
  Queen Rusudan , from the Bagrationi dynasty, ruled Georgia in 1223–1245.- Life :Daughter of Queen Tamar of Georgia by David Soslan, she succeeded her brother George IV of Georgia on January 18, 1223. George’s untimely death marked the beginning of the end of the Georgian “golden age”...
  
   (ruled 1223-1245)

Trebizond

Empire of Trebizond

The Empire of Trebizond, founded in April 1204, was one of three Byzantine successor states of the Byzantine Empire. However, the creation of the Empire of Trebizond was not directly related to the capture of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade, rather it had broken away from the Byzantine Empire...

• Theodora Megale Komnene
  Theodora of Trebizond
  Theodora Megale Komnene , , Empress of Trebizond from 1284 to 1285. She was a daughter of Emperor Manuel I of Trebizond by his second wife, Rusudan, a Georgian princess....
  
   (ruled 1284-1285)
• Irene Palaiologina
  Irene of Trebizond
  Irene Palaiologina , was Empress of Trebizond from April 6, 1340 to July 17, 1341...
  
   (ruled 1340-1341)
• Anna Megale Komnene
  Anna of Trebizond
  Anna Anachoutlou Megale Komnene , , Empress of Trebizond from July 17, 1341 to September 4, 1342. Anna was the elder daughter of Emperor Alexios II of Trebizond and his Georgian wife, Djiadjak Jaqeli....
  
   (ruled 1341-1342)

Europe

Bohemia

Bohemia

Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...

 

• Libuše
  Libuše
  Libuše, Libussa or, historically Lubossa, is a legendary ancestor of the Přemyslid dynasty and the Czech people as whole. Libuše was the wisest of the three sisters and prophesied the foundation of Prague from her castle Libušín...
  
   (ruled in 8th century), legendary duchess and ancestor of the Přemyslid dynasty
  Premyslid dynasty
  The Přemyslids , were a Czech royal dynasty which reigned in Bohemia and Moravia , and partly also in Hungary, Silesia, Austria and Poland.-Legendary rulers:...
  
  
• Maria Theresa
  Maria Theresa of Austria
  Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma...
  
   (ruled 1740-1780)

Bosnia

Bosnia (region)

Bosnia is a eponomous region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It lies mainly in the Dinaric Alps, ranging to the southern borders of the Pannonian plain, with the rivers Sava and Drina marking its northern and eastern borders. The other eponomous region, the southern, other half of the country is...

 

• Jelena Gruba
  Jelena Gruba
  Helen Gruba was the Queen regnant of Bosnia from 1395 to 1398. She was the only female ruler of Bosnia.Helen came from the noble House of Nikolić, which ruled a part of Zachlumia.-Queen consort:...
  
   (elected after her husband's death, ruled 1395-1398)

Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus

Bosporan Kingdom

The Bosporan Kingdom or the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus was an ancient state, located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the shores of the Cimmerian Bosporus...

 

• Dynamis
  Dynamis (Bosporan queen)
  Dynamis named Philoromaios was a Roman Client Queen of the Bosporan Kingdom during the Roman Republic and the reign of the first Roman Emperor Augustus.-Life:...
  
   (ruled with her first husband Asander
  Asander (Bosporan King)
  Asander named Philocaesar Philoromaios was an aristocrat and a man of high rank of the Bosporan Kingdom.Asander was of Greek and possibly of Persian ancestry. There is not much is known on his family and early life. He started his political and military career as a general under Pharnaces II, King...
  
   in 47 BC, then 44 BC-17 BC, then with her second husband Polemon I
  Polemon I of Pontus
  Polemon Pythodoros, also known as Polemon I or Polemon I of Pontus was the Roman Client King of Cilicia, Pontus, Colchis and the Bosporan Kingdom....
  
   from 16 BC until her death in 14 BC)

Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

• Helen I (ruled 949-969), co-reigned with her husband Michael Krešimir II
• Helen II (ruled 1076-1089 and 1090-1091), co-reigned with her husband Demetrius Zvonimir; she ruled alone from 1090 until her death
• Mary I of Hungary
  Mary of Hungary
  Mary of Anjou was queen regnant of Hungary from 1382 until her death in 1395.-Childhood:...
  
   (ruled 1382-1385 and 1386–1395)
• Maria II Theresa of Austria
  Maria Theresa of Austria
  Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma...
  
   (ruled 1740-1780)

Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

• Margaret I
  Margaret I of Denmark
  Margaret I was Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden and founder of the Kalmar Union, which united the Scandinavian countries for over a century. Although she acted as queen regnant, the laws of contemporary Danish succession denied her formal queenship. Her title in Denmark was derived from her...
  
  , Queen of Denmark (ruled 1375–1412 ; regent), Queen of Norway (ruled 1388–1412 ; regent), Queen of Sweden (ruled 1389–1412 ; regent)
• Margaret II
  Margrethe II of Denmark
  Margrethe II is the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of Denmark. In 1972 she became the first female monarch of Denmark since Margaret I, ruler of the Scandinavian countries in 1375-1412 during the Kalmar Union.-Early life:...
  
   (ruled 1972–present)

Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 

• Mary I
  Mary of Hungary
  Mary of Anjou was queen regnant of Hungary from 1382 until her death in 1395.-Childhood:...
  
   (ruled 1382-1385 and 1386–1395) - was crowned as King of Hungary to emphasize that she was a monarch
• Maria II Theresa
  Maria Theresa of Austria
  Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg. She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands and Parma...
  
   (ruled 1740-1780)

Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

 

• Joan I
  Joan I of Naples
  Joan I , born Joanna of Anjou, was Queen of Naples from 1343 until her death. She was also Countess of Provence and Forcalquier, Queen consort of Majorca and titular Queen of Jerusalem and Sicily 1343–82, and Princess of Achaea 1373/5–81....
  
    (ruled 1343-1382)
• Joan II
  Joan II of Naples
  Joan II was Queen of Naples from 1414 to her death, upon which the senior Angevin line of Naples became extinct. As a mere formality, she used the title of Queen of Jerusalem, Sicily, and Hungary....
  
    (ruled 1414-1435)
• Joan III the Mad (ruled 1516-1555)

Sardinia

Sardinia

Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...

 

• Adelasia of Torres
  Adelasia of Torres
  Adelasia , eldest child of Marianus II of Logudoro by Agnes of Massa, daughter of William I of Cagliari, and successor of her brother, Barisone III, in 1236, was the Judge of Logudoro from 1236 and Judge of Gallura from 1238....
  
   (ruled 1238–1245) - eldest child of Marianus II of Logudoro and successor of her brother, Barisone III
  Barisone III of Torres
  Barisone III was briefly the Judge of Logudoro from 1232 until his death. He was the only son of Marianus II, whom he succeeded....
  
  , was Judge of Logudoro from 1236 and Judge of Gallura from 1238. The Emperor Frederick II
  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
  Frederick II , was one of the most powerful Holy Roman Emperors of the Middle Ages and head of the House of Hohenstaufen. His political and cultural ambitions, based in Sicily and stretching through Italy to Germany, and even to Jerusalem, were enormous...
  
   married his bastard son Enzo to her and create a Kingdom of Sardinia; the two were married and titled King and Queen of Sardinia, although they had no effective authority over the whole isle
• Joan the Mad (ruled 1516-1555)

Sicily

Sicily

Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...

 

• Constance
  Constance of Sicily
  Constance of Hauteville was the heiress of the Norman kings of Sicily and the wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor...
  
   (ruled 1194-1198)
• Maria (ruled 1377-1401)
• Joan the Mad (ruled 1516-1555)

The Netherlands 

• Wilhelmina
  Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
  Wilhelmina was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948. She ruled the Netherlands for fifty-eight years, longer than any other Dutch monarch. Her reign saw World War I and World War II, the economic crisis of 1933, and the decline of the Netherlands as a major colonial...
  
   (ruled 23 November 1890 – 4 September 1948)
• Juliana
  Juliana of the Netherlands
  Juliana was the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands between 1948 and 1980. She was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry...
  
   (ruled 4 September 1948 – 30 April 1980)
• Beatrix
  Beatrix of the Netherlands
  Beatrix is the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands comprising the Netherlands, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and Aruba. She is the first daughter of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. She studied law at Leiden University...
  
   (ruled 30 April 1980 – present)

Agder

Agder

Agder is a historical district of Norway in the southernmost region of Norway, corresponding to the two counties Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder. Today, the term Sørlandet is more commonly used.-Name:...

 

• Åsa Haraldsdottir
  Åsa Haraldsdottir of Agder
  Åsa Haraldsdottir of Agder was a semi-legendary Norwegian Viking age Queen regnant of the petty kingdom Agder and mother of Halfdan the Black and grandmother of Harald Fairhair, according to the sagas of the Yngling clan.-Biography:...
  
   (semi-legendary, ruled between 815 and 834-838)

Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 

• Wanda
  Princess Wanda
  Princess Wanda was the legendary daughter of Krakus, legendary founder of Kraków. Upon her father's death, she became queen of the Poles, but committed suicide to avoid an unwanted marriage....
  
   (ruled in 8th century), legendary Queen of the Poles
• Hedwig
  Jadwiga of Poland
  Jadwiga was monarch of Poland from 1384 to her death. Her official title was 'king' rather than 'queen', reflecting that she was a sovereign in her own right and not merely a royal consort. She was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou, the daughter of King Louis I of Hungary and Elizabeth of...
  
   (ruled 1384-1399) - was crowned as King of Poland to emphasize that she was a monarch
• Anna
  Anna Jagiellon
  Anna Jagiellon was queen of Poland from 1575 to 1586. She was the daughter of Poland's King Sigismund I the Old, and the wife of Stephen Báthory. She was elected, along with her then fiance, Báthory, as co-ruler in the second election of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...
  
   (ruled 1575-1595)

Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 

• Queen Teresa (ruled de facto 1116-1128)
• Beatrice
  Beatrice of Portugal
  Beatrice was the only surviving child of King Ferdinand I of Portugal and his wife, Leonor Telles de Menezes. She married King John I of Castile. In the absence of a male heir, she claimed the throne of Portugal, supported by her husband. This led to the 1383–1385 Crisis, in which the Portuguese...
  
   (ruled de jure 1383-1385)
• Maria I
  Maria I of Portugal
  Maria I was Queen regnant of Portugal and the Algarves from 1777 until her death. Known as Maria the Pious , or Maria the Mad , she was the first undisputed Queen regnant of Portugal...
  
   (ruled 1777-1816)
• Maria II (ruled 1826-1828 and 1834–1853)

Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 

• Irina
  Irina Godunova
  Irina Feodorovna Godunova later Alexandra was the wife of Tsar Feodor I Ivanovich and the sister of Tsar Boris Godunov Irina Feodorovna Godunova later Alexandra (1557–1603) was the wife of Tsar Feodor I Ivanovich (r. 1584–1598) and the sister of Tsar Boris Godunov Irina Feodorovna Godunova...
  
   (ruled 7 Jan.-21 Feb. 1598 ?) - upon the death of Feodor I
  Feodor I of Russia
  Fyodor I Ivanovich 1598) was the last Rurikid Tsar of Russia , son of Ivan IV and Anastasia Romanovna. In English he is sometimes called Feodor the Bellringer in consequence of his strong faith and inclination to travel the land and ring the bells at churches. However, in Russian the name...
  
   on 7 January 1598, it is possible that Irina herself could have taken the throne as the reigning tsarina, rather than a mere consort. Thus she retired (some historians call it an abdication) to the Novodevichy Monastery (Convent) on the south side of Moscow, where she took monastic vows under the name Aleksandra.
• Catherine I
  Catherine I of Russia
  Catherine I , the second wife of Peter the Great, reigned as Empress of Russia from 1725 until her death.-Life as a peasant woman:The life of Catherine I was said by Voltaire to be nearly as extraordinary as that of Peter the Great himself. There are no documents that confirm her origins. Born on...
  
   (ruled 1725-1727)
• Anna
  Anna of Russia
  Anna of Russia or Anna Ivanovna reigned as Duchess of Courland from 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740.-Accession to the throne:Anna was the daughter of Ivan V of Russia, as well as the niece of Peter the Great...
  
   (ruled 1730-1740)
• Elizabeth (ruled 1741-1762)
• Catherine II
  Catherine II of Russia
  Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great , Empress of Russia, was born in Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia on as Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg...
  
   ("the Great") (ruled 1762-1796)

Navarre

Navarre

Navarre , officially the Chartered Community of Navarre is an autonomous community in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Country, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and Aquitaine in France...

• Joan I
  Joan I of Navarre
  Joan I , the daughter of king Henry I of Navarre and Blanche of Artois, reigned as queen regnant of Navarre and also served as queen consort of France.-Life:...
  
    (ruled 1274-1305)
• Joan II
  Joan II of Navarre
  Joan II was Queen of Navarre from 1328 until her death. She was the only daughter of Margaret of Burgundy, first wife of King Louis X of France...
  
    (ruled 1328-1349)
• Blanche I
  Blanche I of Navarre
  Blanche I was Queen of Navarre from 1425 to 1441. She became queen regnant upon the death of her father King Charles III of Navarre...
  
    (ruled 1425–1441)
• Blanche II
  Blanche II of Navarre
  Blanche II of Navarre , titular queen of Navarre, was the daughter of John II of Aragon and Blanche I of Navarre. She was also Princess of Asturias by marriage....
  
   (de iure 1461-1464, never de facto)
• Eleanor
  Eleanor of Navarre
  Eleanor of Aragon , Regent and the queen regnant of Navarre in 1479...
  
    (ruled in 1479)
• Catherine
  Catherine of Navarre
  Catherine was Queen of Navarre , duchess of Gandia, Montblanc, and Peñafiel, countess of Foix, Bigorre, and Ribagorza, and viscountess of Béarn.- Biography :...
  
   (ruled 1483–1517)
• Joan III
  Jeanne III of Navarre
  Jeanne d'Albret , also known as Jeanne III or Joan III, was the queen regnant of Navarre from 1555 to 1572. She married Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, and was the mother of Henry of Bourbon, who became King of Navarre and of France as Henry IV, the first Bourbon king...
  
    (ruled 1555-1572)

Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

, Aragon

Crown of Aragon

The Crown of Aragon Corona d'Aragón Corona d'Aragó Corona Aragonum controlling a large portion of the present-day eastern Spain and southeastern France, as well as some of the major islands and mainland possessions stretching across the Mediterranean as far as Greece...

, Castile

Crown of Castile

The Crown of Castile was a medieval and modern state in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then King Ferdinand III of Castile to the vacant Leonese throne...

 and León

Kingdom of León

The Kingdom of León was an independent kingdom situated in the northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula. It was founded in AD 910 when the Christian princes of Asturias along the northern coast of the peninsula shifted their capital from Oviedo to the city of León...

• Urraca of León and Castile (ruled 1109-1126)
• Petronila of Aragon
  Petronila of Aragon
  Petronilla of Aragon , whose name is also spelled Petronila or Petronella , was Queen regnant of Aragon from 1137 until 1164. She was the daughter and successor of Ramiro II by Agnes of Aquitaine...
  
   (ruled 1137-1164)
• Berenguela of Castile
  Berenguela of Castile
  Berengaria was Queen regnant of Castile in 1217 and Queen consort of León from 1197 to 1204.-Family origins:...
  
   ("the Great") (ruled 1217)
• Joan of Castile ("la Beltraneja") (ruled de jure 1474-1479)
• Isabella I of Castile
  Isabella I of Castile
  Isabella I was Queen of Castile and León. She and her husband Ferdinand II of Aragon brought stability to both kingdoms that became the basis for the unification of Spain. Later the two laid the foundations for the political unification of Spain under their grandson, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor...
  
   ("the Catholic") (ruled 1474–1504)
• Joanna of Castile and Aragon
  Joanna of Castile
  Joanna , nicknamed Joanna the Mad , was the first queen regnant to reign over both the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon , a union which evolved into modern Spain...
  
   ("the Mad") (ruled 1504–1555)
• Isabella II of Spain
  Isabella II of Spain
  Isabella II was the only female monarch of Spain in modern times. She came to the throne as an infant, but her succession was disputed by the Carlists, who refused to recognise a female sovereign, leading to the Carlist Wars. After a troubled reign, she was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of...
  
   (ruled 1833–1868)

Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 

• Ingeborg
  Ingeborg of Norway
  Ingeborg of Norway , was a Norwegian and by marriage Swedish princess and royal duchess with a position in the regency governments in Norway and Sweden...
  
   (acted and ranked as if she were a queen regnant in 1318-1319) - leading figure in the regency governments in Norway and Sweden between 1319 and 1327. Some writers have asserted that for a year before the Swedish reign of King Magnus IV
  Magnus IV of Sweden
  Magnus Eriksson as Magnus IV was king of Sweden , including Finland, as Magnus VII King of Norway , including Iceland and Greenland, and also ruled Scania . He has also vindictively been called Magnus Smek...
  
  , her son, she was Sweden's first de facto female ruler. Her position equalled subsequently that of an undeclared queen mother for over 40 years
• Margaret
  Margaret I of Denmark
  Margaret I was Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden and founder of the Kalmar Union, which united the Scandinavian countries for over a century. Although she acted as queen regnant, the laws of contemporary Danish succession denied her formal queenship. Her title in Denmark was derived from her...
  
   (ruled 1389–1412 ; regent)
• Christina
  Christina of Sweden
  Christina , later adopted the name Christina Alexandra, was Queen regnant of Swedes, Goths and Vandals, Grand Princess of Finland, and Duchess of Ingria, Estonia, Livonia and Karelia, from 1633 to 1654. She was the only surviving legitimate child of King Gustav II Adolph and his wife Maria Eleonora...
  
   (ruled 1632 – 5 June 1654)
• Ulrika Eleonora the Younger
  Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden
  Ulrika Eleonora or Ulrica Eleanor , also known as Ulrika Eleonora the Younger, was Queen regnant of Sweden from 5 December 1718 to 29 February 1720, and then Queen consort until her death....
  
   (ruled 30 November 1718 – 29 February 1720)

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

, Commonwealth

Commonwealth Realm

A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state within the Commonwealth of Nations that has Elizabeth II as its monarch and head of state. The sixteen current realms have a combined land area of 18.8 million km² , and a population of 134 million, of which all, except about two million, live in the six...

, Great Britain

Kingdom of Great Britain

The former Kingdom of Great Britain, sometimes described as the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain', That the Two Kingdoms of Scotland and England, shall upon the 1st May next ensuing the date hereof, and forever after, be United into One Kingdom by the Name of GREAT BRITAIN. was a sovereign...

, England

Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England was, from 927 to 1707, a sovereign state to the northwest of continental Europe. At its height, the Kingdom of England spanned the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and several smaller outlying islands; what today comprises the legal jurisdiction of England...

, Scotland

Kingdom of Scotland

The Kingdom of Scotland was a Sovereign state in North-West Europe that existed from 843 until 1707. It occupied the northern third of the island of Great Britain and shared a land border to the south with the Kingdom of England...

, Ireland

Kingdom of Ireland

The Kingdom of Ireland refers to the country of Ireland in the period between the proclamation of Henry VIII as King of Ireland by the Crown of Ireland Act 1542 and the Act of Union in 1800. It replaced the Lordship of Ireland, which had been created in 1171...

.

• Queen Gwendolen
  Queen Gwendolen
  Queen Gwendolen was a legendary ruler of Britain, whose life is described in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. According to Geoffrey, she was the wife of King Locrinus of the Britons until she defeated him in battle and took on the leadership of Britain herself.Gwendolen was the...
  
  , legendary Queen of the Britons according to Geoffrey of Monmouth
• Queen Cordelia
  Queen Cordelia
  Queen Cordelia was a legendary Queen of the Britons, as recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth. She was the youngest daughter of Leir and the second ruling queen of pre-Roman Britain. There is no independent historical evidence for her existence....
  
  , legendary Queen of the Britons according to Geoffrey of Monmouth
• Queen Marcia
  Queen Marcia
  Queen Marcia was the mythical third queen regnant and a regent of the Britons, as recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth.-Mythical Account:Marcia became queen after the death of Guithelin and ruled as regent for her son, Sisillius II. In her youth, she was the Queen consort of Guithelin, the king of...
  
  , legendary Queen of the Britons according to Geoffrey of Monmouth
• Cartimandua
  Cartimandua
  Cartimandua or Cartismandua was a queen of the Brigantes, a Celtic people in what is now Northern England, in the 1st century. She came to power around the time of the Roman conquest of Britain, and formed a large tribal agglomeration that became loyal to Rome...
  
   (ruled c. 43 – 69), queen of the Brigantes
  Brigantes
  The Brigantes were a Celtic tribe who in pre-Roman times controlled the largest section of what would become Northern England, and a significant part of the Midlands. Their kingdom is sometimes called Brigantia, and it was centred in what was later known as Yorkshire...
  
  , a Celtic people in what is now Northern England - she came to power around the time of the Roman conquest of Britain, and formed a large tribal agglomeration that became loyal to Rome; she is known exclusively from the work of a single Roman historian, Tacitus
  Tacitus
  Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors...
  
  , though she appears to have been widely influential in early Roman Britain
• Boudica
  Boudica
  Boudica , also known as Boadicea and known in Welsh as "Buddug" was queen of the British Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire....
  
  , queen of the Brythonic Celtic Iceni people of Norfolk in Eastern Britain who, in 61 AD, led a major uprising of the tribes against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire
• Seaxburh of Wessex
  Seaxburh of Wessex
  Seaxburh was a wife of Cenwalh of Wessex who according to tradition ruled Wessex as queen for a year following Cenwalh's death in 674. She should not be confused with her near-contemporary, Seaxburh of Ely, the saintly daughter of Anna of East Anglia....
  
   (ruled c. 672-675) - she reigned jointly with her husband Cenwalh and, according to tradition, ruled Wessex as Queen for a year following Cenwalh's death in 674
• Ælfflæd of Mercia
  Ælfflæd of Mercia (II)
  Ælfflæd was the daughter of Ceolwulf I of Mercia, and later married Wigmund of Mercia. Their son, Wigstan of Mercia, inherited the throne in 840 but, declining the kingship, appointed his mother as regent. She was deposed from this position by Beorhtwulf of Mercia. Ælfflæd should not be confused...
  
   (ruled 840) - she inherited the throne in 840, when her son Wigstan
  Wigstan of Mercia
  Wigstan , also known as Saint Wystan, was the son of Wigmund of Mercia and Ælfflæd, daughter of King Ceolwulf I of Mercia.Wigstan may have been sub-king, or ealdorman, of the Hwicce, and may have ruled Mercia briefly in 840, before resigning the throne. Wigstan was killed by his successor,...
  
   declined the kingship, appointing his mother as regent. She was deposed from this position by Beorhtwulf of Mercia
  Beorhtwulf of Mercia
  Beorhtwulf was King of the Mercians from 839 or 840 to 852. His ancestry is unknown, though he may have been connected to Beornwulf, who ruled Mercia in the 820s...
  
  
• Æthelflæd of Mercia (ruled 911-918) - eldest daughter of king Alfred the Great
  Alfred the Great
  Alfred the Great was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.Alfred is noted for his defence of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of southern England against the Vikings, becoming the only English monarch still to be accorded the epithet "the Great". Alfred was the first King of the West Saxons to style himself...
  
   of Wessex, wife of Æthelred II, ealdorman of Mercia, and after his death, sole ruler of Mercia. While her husband was alive, she signed agreements, leading some to think that she was the real leader. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle styles her Lady of the Mercians (Myrcna hlæfdige)
• Ælfwynn of Mercia (ruled 918) - daughter of Æthelred II and Æthelflæd, styled Lady of the Mercians. Deposed by her uncle, Edward the Elder
  Edward the Elder
  Edward the Elder was an English king. He became king in 899 upon the death of his father, Alfred the Great. His court was at Winchester, previously the capital of Wessex...
  
   (4 December 918), who annexed Mercia to Wessex, creating the Kingdom of England
  Kingdom of England
  The Kingdom of England was, from 927 to 1707, a sovereign state to the northwest of continental Europe. At its height, the Kingdom of England spanned the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and several smaller outlying islands; what today comprises the legal jurisdiction of England...
  
  
• Matilda (or Maud) of England (named, but she was never crowned because her title was usurped; she was a de facto ruler for a few months in 1141) styled herself as Lady of the English, although Queen of the English was not unknown; she was named heir by her father, Henry I of England
  Henry I of England
  Henry I was the fourth son of William I of England. He succeeded his elder brother William II as King of England in 1100 and defeated his eldest brother, Robert Curthose, to become Duke of Normandy in 1106...
  
  , upon securing the loyalty of nobles of the realm, but Count Stephen of Blois contradicted his promise after the king's death and made himself King of England instead; civil war ensued and was ended when the crown was secured to Matilda's (or Maud's) son, Henry II of England
  Henry II of England
  Henry II ruled as King of England , Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Count of Nantes, Lord of Ireland and, at various times, controlled parts of Wales, Scotland and western France. Henry, the great-grandson of William the Conqueror, was the...
  
  , who became the first king of the House of Plantagenet
  House of Plantagenet
  The House of Plantagenet , a branch of the Angevins, was a royal house founded by Geoffrey V of Anjou, father of Henry II of England. Plantagenet kings first ruled the Kingdom of England in the 12th century. Their paternal ancestors originated in the French province of Gâtinais and gained the...
  
  
• Margaret of Scotland, the Maid of Norway (heir 19 March 1286 – 26 September 1290) - she was the daughter of Eirik II of Norway
  Eirik II of Norway
  Eirik Magnusson was the King of Norway from 1273/80 until 1299.-Background:He was the eldest surviving son of King Magnus the Lawmender of Norway, and his wife Ingeborg Eriksdatter, daughter of King Eric IV of Denmark. Eric descended from St...
  
   and Margaret, daughter of Alexander III
  Alexander III of Scotland
  Alexander III was King of Scots from 1249 to his death.-Life:...
  
  , she died during the sea journey to Scotland before being inaugurated
• Mary, Queen of Scots (ruled 14 December 1542 – 24 July 1567) - she became queen when she was six days old, was crowned at age five, and promptly engaged to the Dauphin of France - the future Francis II
  Francis II of France
  Francis II was aged 15 when he succeeded to the throne of France after the accidental death of his father, King Henry II, in 1559. He reigned for 18 months before he died in December 1560...
  
  
• Lady Jane Grey
  Lady Jane Grey
  Lady Jane Grey , also known as The Nine Days' Queen, was an English noblewoman who was de facto monarch of England from 10 July until 19 July 1553 and was subsequently executed...
  
   (ruled 10–19 July 1553) – her cousin Edward VI of England
  Edward VI of England
  Edward VI was the King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first monarch who was raised as a Protestant...
  
   appointed her successor by removing his older half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth from the order of succession as illegitimate heirs; this decision had not been approved by Parliament and was open to questions of its legality; Mary was the heir according to the will of their father Henry VIII of England
  Henry VIII of England
  Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France...
  
   and was elevated to the throne through popular revolt; nevertheless, without consideration to Celtic queens such as Boudica, Jane is sometimes referred to as England's first queen regnant; she is called The Nine Days Queen because of the brief period of her reign
• Mary I of England
  Mary I of England
  Mary I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death.She was the only surviving child born of the ill-fated marriage of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. Her younger half-brother, Edward VI, succeeded Henry in 1547...
  
   (ruled 19 July 1553 – 17 November 1558) - elevated to the throne in accordance with Henry VIII's will, she is generally considered the first queen regnant as Jane Grey's reign was considered null and to this day is disputed
• Elizabeth I of England
  Elizabeth I of England
  Elizabeth I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty...
  
   (ruled 17 November 1558 – 24 March 1603) - she succeeded her childless older half-sister, Mary, and led England to one of its richest periods in history, known as the Elizabethan Age; she never married and died childless
• Grace O'Malley
  Grace O'Malley
  Gráinne Ní Mháille , Gráinne O'Malley or Grace O'Malley, was Queen of Umaill, chieftain of the Ó Máille clan and a pirate in 16th century Ireland...
  
   or Gráinne Ní Mháille (ruled mid 16th century-1603) - she was Queen of Umaill, chieftain of the Ó Máille clan and a pirate in 16th century Ireland
• Mary II of England and Scotland
  Mary II of England
  Mary II was joint Sovereign of England, Scotland, and Ireland with her husband and first cousin, William III and II, from 1689 until her death. William and Mary, both Protestants, became king and queen regnant, respectively, following the Glorious Revolution, which resulted in the deposition of...
  
   (ruled 13 February, 11 April 1689 – 28 December 1694) - co-reigned with her husband William III
  William III of England
  William III & II was a sovereign Prince of Orange of the House of Orange-Nassau by birth. From 1672 he governed as Stadtholder William III of Orange over Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic. From 1689 he reigned as William III over England and Ireland...
  
  ; they were given the throne by Parliament after the same deposed James II
  James II of England
  James II & VII was King of England and King of Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685. He was the last Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland...
  
   during the so-called Glorious Revolution
  Glorious Revolution
  The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, is the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau...
  
   of 1688
• Anne, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland and later, Queen of Great Britain and Queen of Ireland
  Anne of Great Britain
  Anne ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702. On 1 May 1707, under the Act of Union, two of her realms, England and Scotland, were united as a single sovereign state, the Kingdom of Great Britain.Anne's Catholic father, James II and VII, was deposed during the...
  
   (ruled 8 March 1702 – 1 August 1714)
• Victoria of the United Kingdom
  Victoria of the United Kingdom
  Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....
  
   (ruled 20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901)
• Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
  Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
  Elizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize,...
  
   (ruled 6 February 1952–present)

American Samoa

American Samoa

American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa...

• Matelita, (ruled 1891-1895, as Tui Manu'a
  Tui Manu'a
  An ancient prodominant title of the Manu'a islands of the Samoa Islands , which are now part of the United States Territory of American Samoa...
  
  )

Bora Bora

Bora Bora

The commune of Bora-Bora is made up of the island of Bora Bora proper with its surrounding islets emerging from the coral reef, 29.3 km² in total, and of the atoll of Tupai , located north of Bora Bora...

• Maevarua I (ruled before Western contact)
• Teriimaevarua II (ruled 1860-1873)
• Teriimaevarua III (ruled 1873-1888)

Hawaii

Kingdom of Hawaii

The Kingdom of Hawaii was established during the years 1795 to 1810 with the subjugation of the smaller independent chiefdoms of Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lānai, Kauai and Niihau by the chiefdom of Hawaii into one unified government...

 

Ancient

Ancient Hawaii

Ancient Hawaii refers to the period of Hawaiian human history preceding the unification of the Kingdom of Hawaii by Kamehameha the Great in 1810. After being first settled by Polynesian long-distance navigators sometime between AD 300–800, a unique culture developed. Diversified agroforestry and...

• Kūkaniloko
  Kukaniloko
  Kūkaniloko was the 11th Alii Aimoku of Oahu. She reign as the titluar chieftain or Queen of the island of Oahu and all its territories it may of claim at the time. She was Oahu's first queen regnant and of all eight islands...
  
  , 11th Moi of Oahu
  Oahu
  Oahu or Oahu , known as "The Gathering Place", is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The state capital Honolulu is located on the southeast coast...
  
  , (ruled sixteenth century)
• Kalaimanuia
  Kalaimanuia
  Kalaimanuia was the 12th Alii Aimoku of Oahu. She reigned as Queen of the island of Oahu and all its territories it claimed at the time. She was Oahu's last queen regnant until Liliuokalani, the last queen of all of the Hawaiian Islands. She is sometimes referred to as Kalanimanuia...
  
  , 12th Moi of Oahu
  Oahu
  Oahu or Oahu , known as "The Gathering Place", is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The state capital Honolulu is located on the southeast coast...
  
  , (ruled 1600-1665)
• Kamakahelei
  Kamakahelei
  Kamakahelei , was Alii Aimoku, or Queen regnant, of the islands of Kauai. She was the 22nd ruling chiefess of Kauai reigning from 1770 - 1794. In some historical reference she has been described as a regent for her sons Keawe and Kaumualii...
  
  , 22nd Moi of Kauai
  Kauai
  Kauai or Kauai, known as Tauai in the ancient Kaua'i dialect, is geologically the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands. With an area of , it is the fourth largest of the main islands in the Hawaiian archipelago, and the 21st largest island in the United States. Known also as the "Garden Isle",...
  
  , (ruled 1770 - 1794)
• Kaikilani
  Kaikilani
  Kaikilani was the 17th Alii Aimoku of Hawaii Island 1575 - 1605. She ruled as the sovereign Queen or Chiefess of the island of Hawaii. She was also known as Ka'ikilani'ali'iwahine'opuna. She shared power with her two husbands, but she was the ruler, not them. Kaikilani on Venus is named after...
  
  , 17th Moi of Hawaii Island, (ruled 1575-1605)
• Keakamahana
  Keakamahana
  Keaka-mahana was the 19th Alii Aimoku of Hawaii island 1635–1665. She ruled as sovereign Queen or Chiefess of the island from the royal complex at Holualoa Bay....
  
  , 19th Moi of Hawaii Island, (ruled 1635-1665)
• Keakealaniwahine
  Keakealaniwahine
  Chiefess Keakealani Wahine was the 20th ruler of Hawaii island from 1665 to 1695.-Life:Her mother was Queen Keaka-mahana, 19th Alii Aimoku of Hawaii island. Her father was Chief Iwikau-i-kaua of Oahu. She became ruler of the island on the death of her mother, 1665...
  
  , 20th Moi of Hawaii Island, (ruled 1665-1695)
• Kalanikauleleiaiwi
  Kalanikauleleiaiwi
  Kalanikauleleiaiwi was a Chiefess on the island of Hawaii in the late 17th century and early 18th century. She was considered to be the co-ruler of the island of Hawaii with her half-brother Keawe ikekahialiiokamoku, the 21st Alii Aimoku of Hawaii island. Their shared mother was Keakealani-wahine,...
  
  , co-ruler of Hawaii Island along with her brother Keaweikekahialiiokamoku, (ruled 1695-1725)
• Ululani, 7th Chiefess of Hilo
• Kapau-A-Nuakea, 3rd Chiefess of Molokai
  Molokai
  Molokai or Molokai is an island in the Hawaiian archipelago. It is 38 by 10 miles in size with a land area of , making it the fifth largest of the main Hawaiian Islands and the 27th largest island in the United States. It lies east of Oahu across the 25-mile wide Kaiwi Channel and north of...
  
  
• Kamauliwahine
  Kamauliwahine
  Kamauliwahine was the 4th Alii Aimoku of Molokai. She ruled as titular Queen Regnant or chieftain of the island of Molokai. Her family descends from Nanaulu, the 14th generation descendant of Wakea, of the first migration to Hawaii in 6th century....
  
  , 4th Chiefess of Molokai
  Molokai
  Molokai or Molokai is an island in the Hawaiian archipelago. It is 38 by 10 miles in size with a land area of , making it the fifth largest of the main Hawaiian Islands and the 27th largest island in the United States. It lies east of Oahu across the 25-mile wide Kaiwi Channel and north of...
  
  
• Hualani, 5th Chiefess of Molokai
  Molokai
  Molokai or Molokai is an island in the Hawaiian archipelago. It is 38 by 10 miles in size with a land area of , making it the fifth largest of the main Hawaiian Islands and the 27th largest island in the United States. It lies east of Oahu across the 25-mile wide Kaiwi Channel and north of...
  
  
• Kane'alai, Chiefess of Molokai
  Molokai
  Molokai or Molokai is an island in the Hawaiian archipelago. It is 38 by 10 miles in size with a land area of , making it the fifth largest of the main Hawaiian Islands and the 27th largest island in the United States. It lies east of Oahu across the 25-mile wide Kaiwi Channel and north of...
  
  

Kingdom

Kingdom of Hawaii

The Kingdom of Hawaii was established during the years 1795 to 1810 with the subjugation of the smaller independent chiefdoms of Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lānai, Kauai and Niihau by the chiefdom of Hawaii into one unified government...

• Liliuokalani (ruled 1891-1893 and claimed status as queen until her death in 1917) - was one of many queens of Hawaii; however, she was the only queen regnant of the modern Kingdom of Hawaii
  Kingdom of Hawaii
  The Kingdom of Hawaii was established during the years 1795 to 1810 with the subjugation of the smaller independent chiefdoms of Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lānai, Kauai and Niihau by the chiefdom of Hawaii into one unified government...
  
   established by Kamehameha I
  Kamehameha I
  Kamehameha I , also known as Kamehameha the Great, conquered the Hawaiian Islands and formally established the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1810. By developing alliances with the major Pacific colonial powers, Kamehameha preserved Hawaii's independence under his rule...
  
   in the late eighteenth century

Huahine

Huahine

Huahine is an island located among the Society Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It is part of the Leeward Islands group . The island has a population of about 6,000.-Geography:...

• Teha'apapa I (ruled 1760-1790)
• Teri'itaria II (ruled 1815-1852)
• Teha'apapa II
  Teha'apapa II
  Maerehia of Raiatea and Tahaa , was a princess of Raiatea and Tahaa from the Tamatoa dynasty family, a Polynesian royal family. She was wife of Ari'imate of Huahine, founder of the Teururai dynasty which reigned on the Tahitian island of Huahiné and Maia'o during the 19th century...
  
   (ruled 1868-1893)
• Teuhe
  Teuhe II
  Te-mari'i-a-Teurura'i Ma'i-hara Te-uhe , was a Polynesian queen who reigned, during the 19th century, on the tahitian kingdom of Huahine under the reign name Teuhe. She belongs to the Teururai Royal family of Huahine.-Family:...
  
   (ruled 1888-1890, she reigned under a rebellion government against her mother Queen Tehaapapa II)
• Teha'apapa III
  Te-ha'apapa III
  Princess Teri'i-na-vaha-roa , was a tahitian Queen who reigned on the kingdom of Huahine and Maia'o from 1893 to 1895.-Biography:...
  
   (ruled 1893-1895)

Raiatea

Raiatea

Raiatea , is the second largest of the Society Islands, after Tahiti, in French Polynesia. The island is widely regarded as the 'center' of the eastern islands in ancient Polynesia and it is likely that the organised migrations to Hawaii, Aotearoa and other parts of East Polynesia started at...

• Tehauroarii (ruled 1881-1884)

Rarotonga

Rarotonga

Rarotonga is the most populous island of the Cook Islands, with a population of 14,153 , out of the country's total population of 19,569.The Cook Islands' Parliament buildings and international airport are on Rarotonga...

 

• Makea Te Vaerua Ariki
  Makea Te Vaerua Ariki
  Makea Te Vaerua Ariki was a sovereign of the Cook Islands. She was the ariki of the Makea Nui dynasty, one of the three chiefdoms of the Te Au O Tonga tribe on the island of Rarotonga....
  
  , High Chiefess
  Ariki
  An Ariki , ‘Ariki , Aliki , Ali‘i , Ari'i or ‘Eiki is or was a member of a hereditary chiefly or noble rank in Polynesia.-Aotearoa Ariki:Political leadership or governance in Māori society has traditionally come from two...
  
   of Te Au O Tonga, (ruled 1845–1857)
• Pa Upoko Takau Ariki
  Pa Upoko Takau Ariki
  Pa Upoko Takau Ariki was a sovereign of the Cook Islands. She was the ariki of the Pa dynasty, one of the two chiefdoms of the Takitumu tribe on the island of Rarotonga....
  
  , High Chiefess
  Ariki
  An Ariki , ‘Ariki , Aliki , Ali‘i , Ari'i or ‘Eiki is or was a member of a hereditary chiefly or noble rank in Polynesia.-Aotearoa Ariki:Political leadership or governance in Māori society has traditionally come from two...
  
   of Takitumu, (ruled 1855–1890)
• Tinomana Mereana Ariki
  Tinomana Mereana Ariki
  Tinomana Mereana Ariki was a sovereign of the Cook Islands. She was the ariki of the Tinomana dynasty, a chiefdom of the Puaikura tribe on the island of Rarotonga.-Life:...
  
  , High Chiefess
  Ariki
  An Ariki , ‘Ariki , Aliki , Ali‘i , Ari'i or ‘Eiki is or was a member of a hereditary chiefly or noble rank in Polynesia.-Aotearoa Ariki:Political leadership or governance in Māori society has traditionally come from two...
  
   of Puaikura, (ruled 1881–1908)
• Makea Takau Ariki
  Makea Takau Ariki
  Makea Takau Ariki was a sovereign of the Cook Islands. She was the ariki of the dynasty Makea Nui , one of the three chiefdoms of the tribe Te Au O Tonga on the island of Rarotonga....
  
  , Queen/Supreme High Chiefess
  Paramount chief
  A paramount chief is the highest-level traditional chief or political leader in a regional or local polity or country typically administered politically with a chief-based system. This definition is used occasionally in anthropological and archaeological theory to refer to the rulers of multiple...
  
   of the Cook Islands, (ruled 1871–1911) was the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Rarotonga
  Kingdom of Rarotonga
  The Kingdom of Rarotonga, named after the island of Rarotonga, was an independent kingdom established in the present-day Cook Islands in 1858...
  
   established in 1858, she ceased to be sovereign after 1888.

Tahuata

Tahuata

Tahuata is the smallest of the inhabited Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It is located 4 km to the south of the western end of Hiva Oa, across the Canal du Bordelais, called Ha‘ava in Marquesan.-Administration:Administratively,...

 

• Paetini (ruled around 1842)

Taiohae

• Loi Vakamoa II (ruled around 1861)
• Vaekehu I (ruled 18??-18??)
• Vaekehu II (ruled 1890-1901)

Tonga

Tonga

Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga , is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over of ocean in the South Pacific...

 

• Tupoumahe'ofo
  Tupoumoheofo
  Tupoumoheofo was 12th Tu'i Kanokupolu of Tonga, and the only female to ever hold that title. She was the principal wife to the Tu'i Tonga though she may have been of higher social rank than him because of her matrilineal descent...
  
   (ruled 1777-1781, as Tu'i Kanokupolu)
• Salote Tupou III
  Salote Tupou III of Tonga
  Sālote Mafile‘o Pilolevu Tupou III, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DStJ , but usually named only Sālote, was Queen of Tonga from 5 April 1918 to her death in 1965.-Personal history:...
  
   (ruled 1918-1965)

Uvea (Wallis) 

• Toifale (ruled 1825)
• Falakika Seilala
  Falakika Seilala
  Falakika Seilala was a Queen of Uvea, ruling from 1858 until 1869. She was preceded by Soane-Patita Vaimua Lavelua, and succeeded by Amelia Tokagahahau Aliki.-References:...
  
   (ruled 1858-1869)
• Amelia Tokagahahau Aliki
  Amelia Tokagahahau Aliki
  Amelia Tokagahahau Aliki was a queen of Uvea, ruling from 1869 until 1895. She was preceded by Falakika Seilala, and succeeded by Vito Lavelua II and Isaake.-References:...
  
   (ruled 1869-1895)
• Aloisia Brial
  Aloisia Brial
  Aloisia Brial was a queen of Uvea, ruling from 1953 until 1958. She was preceded by Soane Toke, and succeeded by Tomasi Kulimoetoke II.Uvea is also known as Wallis Island of the Territory of Wallis and Futuna Islands.-References:...
  
  (ruled 1953-1958)

External links

• Contemporary reigning queens (Zárate's Political Collections)