Re: OT Weird Chess News.

Robert Woodward wrote:

In article <100ln3j$3334m$1@dont-email.me>,
  William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
 

Graham wrote:

On 21/05/2025 22:30, William Hyde wrote:

Graham wrote:

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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.

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    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.

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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.
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But female rulers, while scarce in Europe, were not unknown.
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 There is this lady, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Tuscany.
 

Also Byzantine empresses, Zoe, Theodora (not Justinian's wife) and Irene.
William Hyde