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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 ).
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.
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became Queen consort: 903 Odo II: Judith - - 922 925 Hugh I: Eadhild of England: Edward the Elder, King of the Anglo-Saxons 907/910 926/7 26 January 937 Hedwige of Saxony: Henry I the Fowler, King of the East Franks (Liudolfings) 910/22 14 September 938 16 June 956 husband's death: 10 May 965 Adelaide of Aquitaine: William III, Duke of Aquitaine
as sole-Queen consort of the Franks and co-Queen consort the Lombards c. 788 husband became ruler of Bavaria: 10 October 794 Charlemagne, Emperor and King of the Franks: Luitgard of Sundgau [7] [8] Luitfrid II, Count of Sundgau c. 776 c. 794 as sole-Queen consort of the Franks and co-Queen consort of the Lombards: 4 June 800 Ermengarde of Hesbaye
See: List of Frankish queens and List of Burgundian queens. After the division of the Carolingian Empire by the Treaty of Verdun (843), the first of the fraternal rulers of the three kingdoms to die was Lothair I, who divided his middle kingdom in accordance with the custom of the Franks between his three sons.
In her long and complicated career she ruled the eastern Frankish kingdoms of Austrasia and Burgundy for three periods as regent for her son Childebert II from 575 until 583; her grandsons Theudebert II and Theuderic II from 595 until 599; and her great-grandson Sigebert II in 613. The period was marked by tension between the royal house and ...
The title "King of the Franks" is attested in the Kingdom of France until 1190, that of "Queen of the Franks" (for queen consorts) until 1227. That represented a shift in thinking about the monarchy from that of a popular monarchy , the leader of a people, sometimes without a defined territory to rule, to that of a monarchy tied to a specific ...