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Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI, was beheaded during the French Revolution. This is a list of the women who were queens or empresses as wives of French monarchs from the 843 Treaty of Verdun , which gave rise to West Francia , until 1870, when the French Third Republic was declared.
Anne of Kiev or Anna Yaroslavna [a] (c. 1030 – 1075) was a princess of Kievan Rus who became Queen of France in 1051 upon marrying King Henry I.She ruled the kingdom as regent during the minority of their son Philip I from Henry's death in 1060 until her controversial marriage to Count Ralph IV of Valois.
Marguerite of Provence, Queen of Louis IX, was the last French queen to use the title of Queen of the Franks. This is a list of the women who have been queens consort of the Frankish people. As all kings of the Franks have been male, there has never been a queen regnant of the Franks (although some women have governed as regents ).
Became Consort Ceased to be Consort Death Spouse; Juana Manuel of Castile [2] [3] [6] Juan Manuel of Castile, Prince of Villena 1339 27 July 1350 23 March 1369 husband's ascession: 29 May 1379 husband's death: 27 March 1381 Henry II: Eleanor of Aragon [2] [3] [6] Peter IV of Aragon 20 January 1358 18 June 1375 29 May 1379 husband's ascession
Aimée was born on 4 December 1768, the daughter of wealthy French plantation owner Henri du Buc de Rivéry (1748–1808) and Marie Anne Arbousset-Beaufond (1739–1811) in Pointe Royale, south-west of Le Robert on the Caribbean island of Martinique.
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This list contains all European emperors, kings and regent princes and their consorts as well as well-known crown princes since the Middle Ages, whereas the lists are starting with either the beginning of the monarchy or with a change of the dynasty (e.g. England with the Norman king William the Conqueror, Spain with the unification of Castile and Aragon, Sweden with the Vasa dynasty, etc.).
Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; [a] c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, [4] and Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of King Henry II.