Pulcheria
Aelia Pulcheria ruled as regent of the Eastern Roman Empire during the minority of her brother Theodosius II and then empress in her own right from July 450 to her death in 453.
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Themistoclea
Themistoclea was a priestess at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and Pythagoras’s teacher.
Pope Joan
Pope Joan (Ioannes Anglicus) was, according to legend, a woman who reigned as pope from 855 to 857. Her story first appeared in chronicles in the 1200s and subsequently spread throughout Europe.