Empresses

3 entries with the title empress in CrownDB, listed alphabetically with realm and reign.

German born princess who deposed her husband and ruled for 34 years. She annexed Crimea in 1783, partitioned Poland, corresponded...

The first of eight women to reign as Japanese empress. She took the throne after factional strife, with Prince Shotoku as regent...

The only woman to rule the Habsburg lands in her own right, her accession triggered the War of the Austrian Succession and cost...