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Queen consort

wife of a reigning king

13 dated entries naming Queen consort, drawn from 12 separate years between 1398 BCE and 1923 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Empress consort, Queen Consort in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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14th century BC

  • 1398 BCE1398 BC—Birth of Tiy to Egyptian nobleman Yuya and his wife Tjuyu. She later becomes the Chief Queen of Pharaoh Amenhotep III of Egypt and the matriarch of the Amarna family (approximate date).source

4th century

  • 380Aelia Eudoxia, empress and wife of Arcadius (approximate date)source

5th century

  • 407Maria, empress consort and wife of Honoriussource

6th century

  • 593Ino Anastasia, Byzantine empress consortsource

14th century

  • 1350Gayatri Rajapatni, Queen consort of Majapahitsource

16th century

  • 1518April 18 – The widowed Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, marries Milanese noblewoman Bona Sforza in Wawel Cathedral and she is crowned as Queen consort of Poland.source
  • 1540January 6 – King Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves, his fourth Queen consort; the marriage lasts six months.source
  • 1540July 9 – English King Henry VIII's marriage to Anne of Cleves, his fourth Queen consort, is annulled.source

17th century

  • 1618January 28 – Rules are established for the Ōoku, the section of Edo Castle that housed the Shōgun's consort and his concubines.source

18th century

  • 1796November 6 – Catherine the Great dies, and is succeeded by her son Paul I of Russia. His wife Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg becomes Empress consort.source

19th century

  • 18205 July – Pains and Penalties Bill put before Parliament to deprive Caroline of Brunswick, George IV's estranged wife, of the title of Queen Consort, leading to her de facto public trial before the House of Lords opening on 17 August. Although narrowly passed on 10 November in the House of Lords, the bill is withdrawn in the knowledge that it would almost certainly not pass the House of Commons.source
  • 1867September 2 – Emperor Meiji of Japan marries Empress Shōken (née Masako Ichijō). The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko.source

20th century

  • 192319 December – Elisabeth of Romania, Queen Consort, and King George II of Greece, find refuge in Romania after having to leave Greece.source

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