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4 unusual facts about Queen Consort


Church of St. George, Staro Nagoričane

During this reconstruction period, the church's walls were painted with frescoes by Mihailo and Evtihij, among which are depictions of Stefan Milutin and his queen, Simonida.

Giovanni Carlo Tramontano, Count of Matera

In hope of being able to keep his county Count Giovanni Carlo and his wife Countess Elisabetta Restigliano went to the royal court in Naples where the Countess gave the Queen a gold necklace with 25 very valuable pearls worth 700 ducates.

Inglewood Forest

The honour was also known as "The Queen's Hames" due to the fact the manors were often given to a Queen consort on her marriage or at the death of the previous consort.

Rania, Haryana

It is renamed for being Satee by Rania (Queen) of Bhattian Riasayat's King on a rumour of king been killed in nearby village.


Christina of Norway

Christina Sverresdatter (Old Norse: Kristín Sverrisdóttir) (died 1213) was a medieval Norwegian princess and titular queen consort, spouse of co-regent King Philip Simonsson.

Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Nevertheless, its princesses achieved prominent marriages: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, sister of Duke Adolphus Frederick IV, married King George III in 1761, thus becoming queen consort of Great Britain.

Elbeg Nigülesügchi Khan

As the Taifu entered the ger, Lady Öljeitü gave him a cup and says: “Thou raisedst me to a high noble rank. I was a Behichi, thou madest me a Taihu. I was a Princess, thou madest me a Queen.”

Electoral district of Adelaide

The electorate's name comes from the city which it encompasses, Adelaide is named after Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the German born Queen consort of the King of England, King William IV.

Elizabeth Woodville School

Woodville was born in Grafton Regis, which is halfway between the two sites, and was Queen consort of King Edward IV.

English claims to the French throne

Maria Theresia, Princess of Modena and later Queen consort of Bavaria (20 November 1875 – 3 February 1919), his niece.

Eric, Duke of Södermanland

Eric was born circa 1282, the second son of King Magnus III of Sweden and his Queen consort Helvig of Holstein.

Glöð

Glöð ("glowing embers"; sometimes anglicized as Glod) is a legendary queen who figures in the Norse Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar.

Helena Pedersdatter Strange

Helena Pedersdotter Strange (Danish: Helene; in Sweden also called Queen Elin) (ca. 1200–1255) was a Swedish Queen Consort, spouse of King Canute II of Sweden and of a Danish noble family later called Ulfeldt.

Henry IV, Duke of Brabant

He was also an older brother of Maria of Brabant, Queen consort of Philip III of France.

Hever Castle

Anne Boleyn, the second queen consort of King Henry VIII of England, spent her early youth there, after her father, Thomas Boleyn had inherited it in 1505.

Juliana Dias da Costa

Donna Juliana Dias da Costa (1658–1733) was a woman of Portuguese descent from Kochi taken to the Mughal Empire's court of Aurangzeb in Hindustan, who became Harem-Queen to the Mughal emperor of India Bahadur Shah I, Aurangzeb's son, who became the monarch in the year 1707.

Kechnec

In 1295 the Queen Agnes gave the town of Kechnec, together with another 7 small towns to Menne, a surrogate breastfeeder of King Ladislaus IV of Hungary.

Martim Afonso Telo de Meneses

Martim Afonso Telo de Meneses (died in Toro, 26 January 1356), was a Portuguese nobleman, member of the Téllez de Meneses lineage, and the father of Leonor Telles de Meneses, queen consort of Portugal.

Mary Elizabeth Lease

She was called "Queen Mary" (after the British Queen consort, Mary of Teck), "Mother Lease" by her supporters and "Mary Yellin" by her enemies.

Mary of Lusignan, Queen of Naples

Mary of Lusignan (1381 - 4 September 1404) was the second wife but first Queen consort of King Ladislaus of Naples.

Mary Woodville

Mary Woodville, Countess of Pembroke (c. 1456–1481) was a sister of Edward IV's Queen consort, Elizabeth Woodville, and of Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers.

Park End Street

It was named the Queen's Arms, almost certainly after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Consort of George III.

Pengiran Anak Saleha

Saleha Mohamed Alam (born 7 October 1946) is the Queen consort of Brunei as the wife of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, the current Sultan of Brunei.

Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym

Adelheid and Augustus had two daughters; Amalia, who was born in 1818 an later married Prince Otto of Bavaria, the elected King of Greece, and thus became Queen consort of Greece; and Frederica, who was born in 1820 and later married Maximilian Emanuel von Washington, the son of Jakob von Washington, a distant relative of the first President of the United States George Washington.

Queen Jelena

Helen of Zadar (also known as Helen the Glorious or Jelena Slavna), Queen consort of Kingdom of Croatia; Michael Krešimir II (946-969), later Queen dowager (969-976)

Queen Mary Road

This road was named in 1910 in honour of Mary of Teck who became Queen consort on May 6, 1910 when her husband, George V, became King of the United Kingdom.

Reina Victoria Eugenia-class battleship

The class, as well as the lead ship, were named for King Alfonso XIII's English queen consort.

Teck

The most famous of the Teck family is considered to be Duke Francis's daughter, Mary of Teck, Queen consort to King George V of the United Kingdom and Empress of India.

The Reluctant Queen

Anne's father as the Earl of Warwick has played a crucial part in placing Edward on the English Throne, and plans to marry him to French noblewoman, Bona of Savoy, much to his daughter Isabel's chagrin as she secretly wants to be Queen Consort.

Treaty of Edinburgh

Mary, Queen of Scots, the reigning monarch of the time, may not have wanted the Treaty to be ratified as she was heavily attached to France, having been its Queen Consort, and viewed the Lords of the Congregation as rebels against her mother Mary of Guise.


see also

Anna Miełżyńska

Anna Miełżyńska (about 1600-after 1640) of the Nowina coat of arms was a Polish noble lady, the wife of Remigian Zaleski, Castellan of Łęczyca and the mother of Teresa Zaleska, who was the grandmother of Catherine Opalińska, the Queen consort of King Stanislaus Leszczynski of Poland.

Ashayet

Ashayet or Ashait was an ancient Egyptian queen consort, a lower ranking wife of Pharaoh Mentuhotep II of the 11th dynasty.

Balzo

Antonia of Balzo (1355–1374), the second Queen consort of Frederick III the Simple

Isabella del Balzo (died 1533), the second wife and only Queen consort of Frederick IV of Naples

Beatrice of Hungary

Beatrice of Naples, the queen consort of both Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary from 1476–1490 and 1491–1502, respectively

Beatrice of Luxembourg, the queen consort of Charles I of Hungary from 1318-1319

Beatrice d'Este, Queen of Hungary, the queen consort of Andrew II of Hungary from 1234-1235

Beatrice Regina della Scala

# Taddea Visconti, Duchess of Bavaria (1351–28 September 1381), married on 13 October 1364 Stephen III, Duke of Bavaria, by whom she had three children including Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen consort of King Charles VI of France

Catherine of Castile

Catherine of Austria, Infanta of Castile and Aragon, Queen consort of Portugal

Cecilia Johansdotter of Sweden

Cecilia Johansdotter of Sweden, (fl. 1193), is the traditional name of the Queen consort of King Canute I of Sweden and mother of King Eric X of Sweden.

Chalchiuhnenetzin

Chalchiuhnenetzin ("noble jade doll"; chal-cheeoo-neh-NEH-tseen) was an Aztec princess of Tenochtitlan and Queen consort of Tlatelolco, one altepetl - city-state.

Charlotte Amalie

Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (1650-1714), a queen-consort of Denmark and Norway

Charlotte Amalie, United States Virgin Islands, the capital city, which was named after the queen-consort

Church of St Mary de Castro, Leicester

Philippa of Lancaster, the eldest daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and Blanche of Lancaster, was born in nearby Leicester Castle and was a Queen consort of Portugal, married in 1387 to King John I of Portugal during Anglo-Portuguese Alliance thus giving rise to extended name of the church (St. Mary de Castro) during one of its alterations.

Council of Sutri

As his first pontifical act, Clement II placed the imperial crown upon his benefactor and the queen consort, Agnes, daughter of William V, Duke of Aquitaine.

Désirée of Sweden

Désirée Clary or Desideria (1777–1860), Queen consort of Sweden and Norway 1818

Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Her niece Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, daughter of Duke Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, married Frederick William III of Hohenzollern in 1793 and became queen consort of Prussia in 1797.

Emma of Normandy

Upon their marriage, Emma was given the Anglo-Saxon name of Ælfgifu, which was used for formal and official matters, and became Queen Consort of England.

Gunnhildr Sveinsdóttir

Gunnhildr Sveinsdóttir or Gunnhildr Haraldsdóttir, Guda or Gyda (traditionally died in Gudhem, Västergötland, Sweden, c. 1060) was a queen consort of king Anund Jacob of Sweden and of king Sveinn II of Denmark.

Hedwig of Sweden

Hedwig of Holstein, Queen consort of Sweden 1276 usually called Haelwig (Helvig) which is another name

HMS Queen Charlotte

Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Queen Charlotte after Charlotte, queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom.

Johan Jacob Bruun

Among his known works are portraits of King Christian VI and Queen Consort Sophia Magdalen (1737, Rosenborg Castle, after Johann Salomon Wahl), Poul Løvenørn (after A. Brünniche) and Niels Trolle (1741, Frederiksborg Castle), Ove Gjedde and Oluf Parsberg (1741, both Ledreborg Castle).

Katherine Kurtz

She also was an early member of the Society for Creative Anachronism; in her persona of Bevan Fraser of Stirling she achieved the rank of Countess, ruling the Kingdom of the West as Queen Consort for one reign in the 1970s.

Kemsit

Kemsit was an ancient Egyptian queen consort, possibly a lower ranking wife of Pharaoh Mentuhotep II of the 11th dynasty.

Lancelot de Carle

Carle was an eyewitness to the trial and execution of Anne Boleyn, Queen consort of Henry VIII, and shortly afterwards, he wrote a poem detailing her life and the circumstances surrounding her death.

Louis I, Cardinal of Guise

Louis de Lorraine (October 21, 1527, Joinville, Champagne – March 29, 1578, Paris) was the fourth son of Claude, Duke of Guise and Antoinette de Bourbon, and the younger brother of Charles of Guise, Cardinal of Lorraine, and Mary of Guise, queen consort of King James V of Scotland.

Louise, Duchess of Scania

Louise, née Mountbatten, Queen consort of Sweden 1950

Margaret Grey, Lady Bonville

Margaret was the first wife of Sir William Bonville, later the 1st Baron Bonville who was decapitated by Queen consort Margaret of Anjou following the Yorkist defeat at the Second Battle of St Albans.

Margherita di Savoia

Margherita of Savoy (1851-1926), queen consort of King Umberto I of Italy

Margherita, Assam

From historical records, it is not quite clear whether the directors of that company renamed the place as a lasting tribute to that Italian engineer or was it Paganini himself, out of patriotism, christened the place in honour of Queen Margherita, the reigning Queen Consort of Italy.

Maria Amalia

Maria Amalia of Saxony (1724–1760), a princess of Saxony, Queen Consort of Spain and Naples as wife of Charles III

Mary of France

Mary, Queen of Scots, (1542–1587) queen consort of Francis II of France

Princess of Wied

Elisabeth of Wied, Pauline Elisabeth Ottilie Luise zu Wied (1843–1916); Queen Consort of King Carol I of Romania, widely known by her literary name of Carmen Sylva

Queen Adelaide

Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1792–1849), Queen consort of William IV of the United Kingdom

Queen Jane

Jane Seymour (1507/8–1537), the third wife and the third Queen Consort of King Henry VIII of England

Queen Mary

Mary of Teck (1867–1953), queen consort of the United Kingdom, the wife of George V of the United Kingdom, and the mother of Edward VIII of the United Kingdom and George VI of the United Kingdom

Queen Mary College, Lahore

It was established on December 10, 1908 as Victoria May Girls High School and later renamed in honor of the Queen Consort of King George V in 1911.

Queen Sophia

Sophie of Württemberg (1818–1877), Queen consort of the Netherlands

Queen Sybilla

Sibylla of Lusignan (1198 – c. 1230 or 1252), queen consort of Armenia

Reina Cristina

"Reina Cristina" is Spanish for "Queen Christina," and refers to Maria Christina of Austria, Queen Consort of Spain, second wife of Alonso XII.

Sigrid of Sweden

Sigrid the Haughty, Swedish queen consort (questionable), 10th century

Thoros of Marash

Thoros of Marash (also known as Thatoul) was the father of Arda of Armenia, the first queen consort of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Ulrica of Sweden

Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark or Ulrica Eleanor, Queen consort of Sweden 1680

Willa

Willa of Tuscany (died 970), queen consort of Berengar II of Italy

William Bonville, 6th Baron Harington

William survived the Yorkist defeat at the Battle of Wakefield, but was executed on 17th February 1461 immediately after the Second Battle of St Albans by the troops of the Queen consort, Margaret of Anjou, who headed the Lancastrian faction.

Winifred Wells

Winifred Wells was a courtier at the Stuart Restoration court as a Maid of Honour to Queen consort Catherine of Braganza.

Zhou

Queen Zhou the Elder (周), Queen-consort to the Southern Tang kingdom of the Ten Kingdoms