Sujet : Re: OT Weird Chess News.
De : wthyde1953 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (William Hyde)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 22. May 2025, 00:20:18
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Graham wrote:
On 21/05/2025 22:30, William Hyde wrote:
Graham wrote:
Or they could ask Anne's daughter Elizabeth or stepdaughter Mary.
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Eleanor of Aquitaine was cited, though she died more than a century before the change. Might as well cite Empress Maud or Theodora.
As far as I can tell none of the others were generally accepted as reigning monarchs in their own right. This, again as far as I can tell, was a new thing for England at that point.
That's true, and this of course is what got John Knox's knickers so thoroughly in a twist - though Maud ruled at least part of the country and claimed the whole thing.
But female rulers, while scarce in Europe, were not unknown.
William Hyde
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