Women Rulers Posters, “H...-L...-”
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Queen Hatshepsut
b. c. 1508 BC
d. c. 1458 BC

Queen Hatshepsut, the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt, generally regarded as one of the most successful female pharaohs of Egypt, reigning longer than any other female ruler of an indigenous dynasty.

Hatshepsut dressed as a man and wore the traditional false beard of pharaohs to indicate that she was pharaoh and ruled Egypt in her own right. In June 2007 a mummy was identified as that of Hatshepsut through DNA.

Her Mortuary Temple complex, designed by Senemut, is considered to be among the great buildings of the ancient world.

• Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

Henrietta-Maria de France, Queen Mary of England
b. 11-25-1609; Paris, France
d. 9-10-1669; France

Henrietta-Maria de France was the daughter of King Henry IV of France and Marie de Medici; married to Charles I of England; the mother of two kings of England, Charles II and James II, and grandmother to Bonny Prince Charley. The North American colony of Maryland was named in her honor. One of her attendants was writer Margaret Cavendish.

• Queen Isabella: And The Unification Of Spain

Isabella of Castile
b. 4-22-1451; Castile
d. 11-26-1504; buried in Granada

Isabella of Castile's marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon politically unified Spain; together they drove out the Moors and presided over the notorious Inquisition, an ethnic cleansing of anyone not of Catholic faith, and earned the name the “Catholic Monarchs”.

Their youngest daughter, Catherine of Aragon, was the first wife of Henry the VIII (their daughter Mary I of England, became known as “Bloody Mary” for her persecutions of Protestants), another daughter, Juana (“the Mad”), was the mother of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.

Isabella is also responsible for financing Columbus' voyage and later explorations to the New World. One could think that the conquistadors treatment of the indigenous peoples of the New World was an extention of the Inquisition.

• Queen Isabella: And The Unification Of Spain

Jadwiga
b. 2-18-1374; Buda
d. 7-17-1399; Kraków, Poland

Jadwiga of Poland is also known as Saint Hedwig the Queen, the patron saint of queens.

• Jadwiga, Queen of Poland

Joséphine de Beauharnais
b. 6-23-1763; Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique
d. 5-29-1814; Rueil-Malmaison, Île-de-France, France

Joséphine de Beauharnais was named Empress of the French by her second husband Napoleon I (Bonaparte).

• Empress Josephine

Queen Liliuokalani
b. 9-2-1838; Honolulu, Hawaii
d. 11-11-1917

Queen Liliuokalani was the last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

• The Betrayal of Liliuokalani: Last Queen of Hawaii 1838-1917
• Vintage Hawaiian prints