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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: OT Weird Chess News.
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 19:20:18 -0400
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Graham wrote:
> On 21/05/2025 22:30, William Hyde wrote:
>> Graham wrote:
> 
>>> Or they could ask Anne's daughter Elizabeth or stepdaughter Mary.
>>
>> Eleanor of Aquitaine was cited, though she died more than a century 
>> before the change.  Might as well cite Empress Maud or Theodora.
> 
>    As far as I can tell none of the others were generally accepted as 
> reigning monarchs in their own right. This, again as far as I can tell, 
> was a new thing for England at that point.

That's true, and this of course is what got John Knox's knickers so 
thoroughly in a twist -  though Maud ruled at least part of the country 
and claimed the whole thing.

But female rulers, while scarce in Europe, were not unknown.

William Hyde