Ruler Archives - Page 18 of 27

Weetamoo

Sunksqua (chief) of the Native American Pocasset tribe.

Trưng Trắc

The Trung sisters organised an army – composed mostly of women – and rose up against the Chinese regime, eventually securing Vietnamese independence from China for the first time in 150 years.

Artemisia I of Caria

Queen of Halicarnassus (c. 484-460), in what is now southwest Turkey

Keakealani’wahine

Sovereign queen of Hawaii

Njinga, born c. 1582 to the royal family of Ndongo, was trained in both as a diplomat and in warfare during her adolescence. These skills came into practice many times during her reign as she resisted Portuguese colonial expansion into her kingdoms.

Ririkumutima

Burundian queen mother and political leader

Arwa al-Sulayhi

Arwa al-Sulayhi of Yemen was queen consort from 1067 until his death in 1084, holding increasing power as he retreated from public life due to paralysation. At her husband’s death, she became regent for their son Ali Abd al-Mustansir until his death in 1094, and became queen in her own right.

Asma Bint Shibab al-Sulayhiyya

Asma Bint Shibab al-Sulayhiyya was queen-consort (malika) of Yemen and co-ruler with her husband Ali Ibn Muhammad al-Sulayhi, the founder of the Sulayhi dynasty, from 1047 to 1066. Afterwards, she co-ruled with her son al-Mukarram and daughter-in-law Arwa until her death in 1087.