Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Royal Women in Power U


 
(1078-1126) 
Queen of Leon and of Castile, 1109-1126.
Notes: "...Urraca defied the notion that a man who married a ruling queen should automatically share in the governance of his wife's realms...." (Medieval Iberia, p.688) "...She was overbearing and tyrannical in her conduct, with morals of very questionable repute. Her mind was of a light and trivial order, tthough he ambition was as great as it was unprincipled...." (Woods in Popular Science, 1902, p. 170) 

(d.1039) 
Lady of Infantado de Covarrubias. 

(c1038-1108)
a.k.a. Urraca de Zamora
Lady of Zamora 

(d.861) 
Countess of Castile

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