Women Rulers Posters, “A...-B...-”
for the social studies classroom, home schoolers and theme decor.

Julia Vipsania Agrippina
c. 1st century AD, Roman Empire

Agrippina the Elder was one of the most powerful women in the Roman Empire. She was the daughter of Agrippa and his third wife, Julia the Elder (and thus the granddaughter of Augustus), and with Germanicus, her husband, the parents of Caligula and his sister, Agrippina the Younger, who was the mother of Nero.

Due to her attitude of privilage that challenged Tiberius, Agrippina the Elder was finally banished from Rome and died of starvation, possibly self inflicted.

• Representing Agrippina: Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire

Eleanor of Aquitaine
b. 1122; Poitiers, Bordeaux, or Nieul-sur-l'Autise, Aquitaine
d. 4-1-1204; Fontevrault

Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Europe during the High Middle Ages, brought the ideals of courtly love from Aquitaine to the courts of France and then to England as Queen consort. Eleanor was deeply involved in the Second Crusade (1145–1149) as the French Queen and, as married to Henry II of England, the mother of both King Richard I and King John.

• World History Biographies: Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Rode Off to Battle

Lucrezia Borgia
b. 4-18-1480; Subiaco, near Rome, Italy
d. 6-24-1519; after child birth

Lucrezia Borgia was the daughter of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI).

Her father appointed her governor of Spoleto and then gave her the power of administration of the Vatican and the Church at age 21.

• Lucrezia Borgia biography

Boudica
fl. 1st century; British Isles

Boudica (also Boudicca, Boadicea), as queen of the Brythonic Celtic Iceni people of Norfolk in Eastern Britain, led a major uprising of the tribes against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire.

• Boudica, Queen of the Iceni