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This category is mainly a container for categories relating to child monarchs. A child monarch is someone holding an office of sovereign and temporal authority who has not yet reached the age of majority in their culture. Before modern times this generally seems to have been around age 15 or 16.
This category is for child monarchs from Europe. Further categories of a more specific nature (such as period) may be created if it is felt that this category becomes too large. "Child ruler" generally means one occupying an office of supreme temporal authority who has not yet attained the age of majority. It will almost always mean that actual ...
This category is for child monarchs from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa who began their rule on or before the year 550. The Middle East includes the Iranian plateau, but nothing further east. North Africa is bounded by the Sahara and the historical limits of ancient Egypt.
The best known children are the three legitimate offspring who survived infancy and would succeed him as monarchs of England, successively, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. His first two wives , Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn , had several pregnancies that ended in stillbirth , miscarriage , or death in infancy.
"Child ruler" generally means one occupying an office of supreme temporal authority who has not yet attained the age of majority; to clarify, it is someone who hasn't reached their 15th or 16th birthday. It will almost always mean that actual rule is exercised by others. See Category:Child monarchs for further definition and discussion.
This category is for child monarchs who were deposed before reaching the age of majority in their culture. Before modern times this generally seems to have been around age 15 or 16. It also applies to child monarchs who abdicated, since, as minors, they would have been deemed incapable of making such a decision independently.
The Royal Family Tree - each member of the Royal family's face in a circle with name and birth year Queen Elizabeth II Elizabeth was the first-born child of her father, King George VI, who was the ...
This category is exclusively for ancient Egyptian child monarchs. "Child ruler" generally means one occupying an office of supreme temporal authority who has not yet attained the age of majority, which until modern times seems to have been around 15 or 16, so monarchs listed became monarchs before their 16th birthday.