- Queen Anne
Queen Anne (ca. 1650 - ca. 1715) became the chief of the Pamunkey tribe when her aunt Cockacoeske died. Colonial Governor William Berkeley requested that Anne furnish warriors to the colonists during Bacon's Rebellion, but she refused on the grounds that her tribe had been neglected by the colonists for twenty years. She eventually relented when the colonists promised better treatment for her people. When Anne's village was attacked she barely escaped with her life, … - Cockacoeske
Cockacoeske's husband/boyfriend was first married to Unity Croshaw, an independent minded woman who left him for his adultery, and some of whose descendants were the Dandridges, related to Martha Washington. Sporadic raids by Native Americans on the colony's frontier led Nathaniel Bacon to lead a popular uprising. The attackers had been the Doeg and Susquehannock Tribes but instead of attacking them, Bacon's men attacked the peaceful Pamunkey, Mattaponi, and Chislack Tribes. - Catherine II of Russia
Catherine II of Russia, called the Great reigned as Empress of Russia for some 34 years, from June 28 1762 until her death. She was one of Russia's longest-serving and most influential rulers. - Weetamoo
Weetamoo (1635 - 1676) (also referred to as Weetamoe) was a Pocasset Wampanoag Native American woman who was born circa 1635 in Mettapoiset, village of the Pokanoket, and died at Taunton River in 1676. She was the wife of Wamsutta, the eldest son of Massasoit, whose participated in the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims. After Massasoit died, Wamsutta became Chief of the Wampanoag tribe. The Wampanoag allied with the English against the Narragansett tribe, … - Catherine Montour
Madame Catherine (also Catharine) Montour, or Queen Catharine (1710-1804), was born in New France and became a prominent woman among the Iroquois during the end of the 18th century. Montour was reportedly a half-breed Huron (and also claimed to be the illegitimate daughter of a French official). She had been captured by the Iroquois and married to a Seneca chief. - Wilma Mankiller
Wilma Pearl Mankiller (born November 18, 1945 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma) was the first female Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Mankiller grew up with her family at Mankiller Flats. Her father moved the family to San Francisco in 1956 in hopes of a "better life" as promised under the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Indian Relocation Program. - Nancy Ward
Nanye-hi ("One Who Goes About"), known in English as Nancy Ward was a "ghighua", or "beloved woman" of the Cherokee nation, which meant that she was allowed to sit in councils and to make decisions, along with the other Beloved Women, on pardons. She believed in peaceful coexistence with white people. - Margaret Tudor
Margaret Tudor (29 November, 1489 - October 1541) was the eldest of the two surviving daughters of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, and the elder sister of Henry VIII. In 1503 she married James IV, king of Scotland, thus becoming the mother of James V and grandmother of Mary Queen of Scots. Most important of all, Margaret's marriage to James was to lead directly to the Union of the Crowns. Fate, it was once argued, had intended Margaret to be Queen of Scots. - Pauline Small
Pauline Small (November 30, 1924 - March 9, 2005) was the first woman to be successfully elected in the Crow Tribe of Indians. She was elected to become Vice-Secretary of the Crow Tribal Council, a position she was elected to in 1966 holding office "de facto" to 1972, and served in various positions within the Crow Tribal Offices. She was a member of the Lodge Grass Board of Trustees, … - Glory Of The Morning
- Durgavati
Rani Durgavati was born in 1524 A.D. in the famous Chandella family, the daughter of Keerat Rai at Kalinjar (Banda, Uttar Pradesh, India). In 1542, she married Dalpatshah, of the Gond Dynasty of Garha-Mandala. When he died, she became regent for her son Bir Narayan. She ruled from 1548 to 1564, when the Mughal Emperor Akbar of Delhi attacked Gondwana. Durgawati led her forces against the invading army, but was ultimately defeated. - Marie-Thérèse Assiga Ahanda
Marie-Thérèse Catherine Atangana Assiga Ahanda is a Cameroonian novelist and chemist and the paramount chief of the Ewondo people. Ahanda is the daughter of Charles Atangana—paramount chief of the Ewondo and Bane peoples under the German and French colonial regimes—by his second wife, Julienne Ngonoa. Ahanda is married and has four children and several grandchildren. Ahanda worked for a few years in the science department of the University of Yaoundé. - Chief Earth Woman
Chief Earth Woman was a nineteenth century Ojibwa. She claimed that she had gained supernatural powers from a dream, and for this reason, accompanied the men on the warpath. - Mary Of Guise
Marie de Guise (in English, "Mary of Guise") (November 22, 1515 - June 11 1560) was the Queen Consort of James V of Scotland and the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots. She was Regent, or Governor, of Scotland 1554-1560. The eldest daughter of Claude, Duke of Guise, head of the French House of Guise, and his wife Antoinette of Bourbon, Marie was born at Bar-le-Duc, Lorraine. On August 4 1534, at the age of 18, she was married to Louis of Orleans, Duke of Longueville, … - Princess Olga Of Kiev
Saint Olga (also called "Olga Prekrasa" (Ольга Прекраса), or "Olga the Beauty", Old Norse: "Helga"; born c. 890 died July 11, 969, Kiev) was a Pskov woman of Varangian extraction who married the future Igor of Kiev, arguably in 903. The Primary Chronicle gives 879 as her date of birth, which is rather unlikely, given the fact that her only son was probably born some 65 years after that date. - Jind Kaur
Maharani Jind Kaur (1817 - London, August 1 1863), also popularly known as Rani Jindan, the Messalina of Punjab. She was the youngest wife of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the mother of the last Sikh maharaja, Maharaja Duleep Singh. In 1845 she became Regent of Punjab for Duleep Singh. Shortly after the First Anglo-Sikh War saw the British gain hold of Punjab, and in 1846 she was deposed as Regent and banished to Sheikhupura near Lahore. - Tin Hinan
According to a legend, Tin Hinan was the first leader to unite the "Tuareg" world and establish a kingdom in the Ahaggar mountains. She was both heroine and matriarch and is believed to come from "Tafilalt" in the "Atlas Mountains", Morocco. n Abalessa, the ancient capital of the Hoggar region, there is the tomb of the famous Tuareg queen Tin Hinan. - Queen Alliquippa
Queen Alliquippa (d. December 23, 1754) was a leader of the Seneca tribe of American Indians during the early part of the 18th century. Little is known about Alliquippa's early life. Her date of birth has been estimated anywhere from the early 1670s to the early 1700s. By the 1740s, she was the leader of a band of Mingo Seneca living along the three rivers (the Ohio River, the Allegheny River, and the Monongahela River) near what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. - Töregene Khatun
Töregene Khatun was a Khatun and ruled as regent of the Mongol Empire from the death of her husband Ögedei Khan in 1241 until the election of her eldest son Güyük Khan in 1246. She was effective in the exercise of power in a society that was traditionally led only by men. She managed to balance the various competing powers within the empire, and even within the extended family of the descendants of Genghis Khan, … - Charlotte Hallmark
Charlotte Hallmark is the current chief of the Echota Cherokee Tribe of Alabama. She became chief in 2006, and she will serve until 2010. She replaced Chief Billy Shaw, who resigned. - Cecilia Fire Thunder
Cecilia Fire Thunder (born October 24, 1946, Pine Ridge, South Dakota) has worked as a nurse, and served as tribal president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota from her electoral win on November 2, 2004 up until her impeachment on June 29, 2006. - Mary John Sr.
Mary John, Sr. (June 16, 1913 - September 30, 2004) was a leader of the Carrier people of the central interior of British Columbia in Canada. She was known as "Mary John, Sr." to distinguish her from her daughter-in-law, also named Mary John. She became well known both for her political and social activism and as a role model, a person of enormous integrity, strength, and gentleness. John was born at Lheidli (Prince George), British Columbia to Anzel Quaw. - Gaitana
<b>Gaitana</b>, also referred to as La Gaitana and Cacica Gaitana, was a 16th century Páez woman leader who, in 1539-40, led the indigenous people of northern Cauca, Colombia in armed resistance against colonization by the Spanish. - Larue Parker
LaRue Martin Parker is the current Chairperson of the Caddo nation. She has been chairperson since at least 2000, and was re-elected over opposition candidate, Christine Smith Noah, in the July 9, 2005 election. - Sophia Alekseyevna
Sophia Alekseyevna (September 17 (27), 1657 - July 3 (14), 1704) was a regent of Russia (1682-1689) who allied herself with a singularly capable courtier and politician, Prince Vasily Galitzine, to install herself as a regent during the minority of her brothers, Peter I and Ivan V. The activity of this "bogatyr-tsarevna" (as Sergey Solovyov called her) was all the more extraordinary, as Muscovite women usually kept themselves aloof from politics. - Rani Durgawati
Rani Durgawati (died 1564) was the wife of Dalpat shah, the ruler of Gondwana, a kingdom in what is now modern Madhya Pradesh, India. When he died, she became regent for her son Bir Narayan. She ruled from 1548 to 1564, when the Mughal Emperor Akbar of Delhi attacked Gondwana. Durgawati led her forces against the invading army, but was ultimately defeated. She committed suicide by stabbing herself with a dagger to avoid dishonor. - Alice Brown Davis
Alice Brown Davis (September 10, 1852 - June 21, 1935) was born in the Cherokee mission town of Park Hill, Oklahoma. Her father, Dr. John Frippo Brown, from Scotland (note that not all US Federal Census indicate that his birth place was in Scotland. Probably his father was born in Scotland and he in the Carolina area.) accompanied the Seminoles as a military surgeon during their expulsion from Florida. - Constance Of Antioch
Constance of Antioch (1127-1163) was the ruler of the principality of Antioch (a crusader state) from 1130 to her death. Constance was the only daughter of Bohemund II of Antioch by his wife Alice, princess of Jerusalem. She became princess of Antioch when she was only four-years-old, under the regency of Baldwin II of Jerusalem (1130-1131) and Fulk of Jerusalem (1131-1136). Her mother Alice did not want the principality to pass to Constance, … - Abbakka
Abbakka Rani was the female ruler of Tulu Nadu, coastal area of modern-day Karnataka, India. She fought the Portuguese army during 1530-1599. She belonged to the Jain Chowta dynasty of Mudabidri. Abbakka Rani is one of the earliest freedom fighters of India who resisted the Portuguese.The queen's story is retold from generation to generation through folk songs and yakshagana, the popular folk theatre, In bootaradhana, (which literally means appeasing the possessed, … - Amélie De Beauharnais Of Leuchtenberg
Amélie de Beauharnais of Leuchtenberg, Duchess of Leuchtenberg, was the granddaughter of Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of the French. Her father, Eugène de Beauharnais, was the only male child of Empress Josephine and her first husband Alexandre de Beauharnais and stepson of Napoleon Bonaparte, who admired his military qualities. The mother of Empress Amélie was Princess Augusta Amélia, daughter of Maximilian I, King of Bavaria. - Bikhakhanim
Bikhakhanim was the reigning princess of a small polity located on the Taman Peninsula in southern Russia. She may have been of Circassian, Georgian, or Cuman origin. The Russian historian F. K. Brun, suggests that the name of the princess might not have been "Bikhakhanim," but "Bikhakhatun," and that, if so, she was the daughter of the Georgian prince Beka II Jakeli (d. 1391), the ruler of Samtskhe and Klarjeti. - Martha George
Martha George was a member of the Suquamish tribe, and a descendant of Chief Seattle. She founded the Small Tribes Organization of Western Washington. From the late 1920s to the early 1940s, she was the Suquamish tribal chairman. - Joyce Dugan
- Sharifa Fatima
- Verónica I
- Libuše
Libuše is a mythical ancestor of the Přemyslid dynasty and the Czech people as whole. According to legend, she founded Prague during the 8th century. Libuše is said to have been the daughter of the equally mythical Czech ruler Krok, and the youngest sister among his other daughters, the healer Kazi and the magician Teta. She was chosen by her father as his successor (a judge). Although she proved herself as a wise chieftain, … - Anacaona
Anacaona, also called the Golden Flower, was an Indian queen, wife of Caonabo, one of the five Taíno Arawak caciques who possessed the island of Hispaniola when the Spaniards settled there in 1492. She was celebrated as a composer of ballads and narrative poems, called "areitos". The Indians, being ill-treated by the conquerors, revolted, and made a long war against them; and during a feast organized to honor the queen of Jaragua, who was friendly to the Spaniards, … - Elena Glinskaya
Elena Vasilyevna Glinskaya (? - April 4(13).1538, Moscow) was the second wife of Grand Prince Vasili III and regent of Russia for 5 years (1533-38). Elena was a daughter of Prince Vasili Lvovich Glinsky by Princess Anna of Serbia. It is to her powerful uncle, Prince Mikhail Glinsky, that the family owned its distinction. In 1526, Vasili III resolved to divorce his barren wife, Solomoniya Saburova, and marry Elena. Despite strong opposition from the Russian Orthodox Church, … - Viola Jimulla
- Tacumwah
Tacumwah (c. 1720-c. 1790), alternate spelling "Taucumwah," also known as Marie-Louise Pacanne Richerville (Richardville) was a "chefress" of the Miami tribe, a businesswoman, and mother of Chief Richardville. She was also the sister of Michikinikwa ("Little Turtle"), and Pacan. From her brother Pacan she derived the "Pacanne" portion of her French surname. The name Tacumwah means "Parakeet" in the Miami language.
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