Covering history's most marvelous millennium
Covering history's most marvelous millennium
This page contains all our reports regarding Gender or Women’s Medieval History.
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Olga of Kiev became ruler of the Rus' because her husband was killed in an uprising. She started her reign with a savage campaign against the rebels.
Urraca of León had to deal with an overbearing father and an abusive husband. Contrary to their will, she became the first (and last) Empress of Spain.
Breton noblewoman Jeanne de Clisson turned against her sovereign, the king of France. She reinvented herself as a macabre and terrifying pirate.
Medieval politics were a men's world. But Melisende of Jerusalem overcame father, husband and son in her ascent to power.
