Women Rulers Posters, “T...-Z...-”
for the social studies classroom, home schoolers and theme decor.

Empress Theodora
b. c. 500 AD; Constantinople
d. 6-28-548

Empress Theodora and her husband Justinian I were rulers of the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century. Along with her husband, she is a saint in the Orthodox Church.

• Theodora: Empress of Byzantium

Queen Victoria
b. 5-24-1819; Kensington Palace, London, England
d. 1-22-1901; Isle of Wight

Queen Victoria was the longest reigning British monarch, beginning in 1837 when she was 18 years old. Her reign is known as the Victorian Era.

Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert had nine children and 26 of their 42 grandchildren married into royal and noble families, making Victoria “the grandmother of Europe”. After Albert died (typhoid) in 1861 Victoria went into deep mourning.

Did you know... that Victoria once called the artist and poet Edward Lear to court to give her drawing lessons?

• Queen Victoria: A Personal History
• Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey

Wu Zetian
b. 625; Li prefecture
d. 12-16-705

Wu Zetian was the only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Emperor.

• Empress Wu Zetian in Fiction and in History: Femaile Defiance in Confucian China

Queen Zenobia
(fl. 3rd century AD)

After her husband died Queen Zenobia brought together the Palmyrene Empire that encompassed the provinces of Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and parts of Asia Minor during the Crisis of the Third Century of the Roman Empire.

In 270 AD Roman Emperor Aurelian started the process to bring back the Gallic Empire of Gaul, Britain and Hispania, and the Palmyrene Empire under central control, as well as beat back the barbarian invasions.

The city of Palmyra, in central present day Syria, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

• Zenobia (Warrior Queen)