Royal Women in Power N

Brief lives of women who reigned or ruled in their own right or by marriage by providing their a) proprietary titles, b) parents/pedigree, c) patrimony and properties, d) persona or personality, e) powers exercised, f) patronages and g) progeny or posterity.

Navarre of Soule, Viscountess of Soule

Nawidemak (1st century BC or AD) Queen regnant of Kush

Neferneferuaten (possibly identical with Nefertiti) Pharaoh of Egypt for a short time between 1336 and 1333 BC

Neithhotep, queen and co-ruler of Egypt, possibly the first known female ruler

Nur Jahan, powerful empress and co-reign of emperor Jahangir, For 1611-1628

NICOLE DE CHATILLON (1424-1480)

Also known as: Nicole de Blois

Proprietary Titles: Countess of Penthievre, Viscountess of Limoges, 1454-1480

Note: " . . . She was deprived of Penthièvre by Francis II, Duke of Brittany in 1465, thus undermining the Penthièvre family's position in the duchy. . . ." (Wikipedia)

Note: " . . . In 1437 Nicole de Blois, a descendant of this family, married Jean II de Brosse, and was deprived of Penthievre by Francis II, Duke of Brittany, in 1465 - thus undermining the Penthievre family's position in the country. In 1488, at the death of the last male duke Francis II, the head of the Penthievre family was Jean de Brosse (d.1502), grandson of Nicole de Blois the aforementioned, and he asserted their claim to the duchy, but Francis' daughter Anne succeeded." (Ulwencreutz's The Royal Families in Europe V: 186)

Nino, Regent Princess of Mingrelia, 1804–1811

Nuña Fernandez (Munia Domna), Lady of Amaya, Lady of Lara

Nuña Núñez, Lady of Amaya

Nyarroh (1880–1914), female chieftain in Barri region of Sierra Leone