Famous Female Medieval General?

[Arto]

I was just curious was there a famous female general in medieval times (except Joan de Arc)?

(Famous) Medieval Female General List
- Joan de Arc
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Any more?

[Trajan]

Moved to the VV.

[Confederate Jeb]

One of those is a rick roll....LOL

[Georgy Zhukov]

I new the third one would scare me, Damn it! Oh and in before the lock.

[NakedBarbarian2]

I'll throw in an Asian reference. Tran sisters in Vietnam, 1600's. Started a guerilla war against the Chinese in Northern Vietnam. Think they end up being raped and sown into sacks and thrown in a river.

[Aetius]

Northern Vietnam. Think they end up being raped and sown into sacks and thrown in a river.

Pwnt.

Oh, and I suggest you remove the rick roll and the other one, or the mods will get you. And then they will close this.

[AqD]

I'll throw in an Asian reference. Tran sisters in Vietnam, 1600's. Started a guerilla war against the Chinese in Northern Vietnam. Think they end up being raped and sown into sacks and thrown in a river.

Our history books never mentioned this

It's really shameful for our supposed-cilvilized Ming government to commit such disrespect against leaders of other countries
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DefinetStud cam

[Stavroforos]

I wasn't aware of any other female generals in Western Europe during the Middle Ages outside of Jeanne d'Arc.

[Stalins Ghost]

As ever when a probing history question comes up... Wiki!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...dieval_warfare

Off the top of my head for the ancient period we've got people like Artemesia of Caria (Battle of Salamis), Eurydice III (lead a rebellion in the Seleucid Empire) and various other Macedonian successor kingdom queens. There's plenty of "barbarian" Queens in the ancient period too, Boudicca of course being the main one known to history.

[Hanny]

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroine4.html
http://www.lothene.demon.co.uk/others/women.html

Not hard to find on the net. Elanor of Aquitane is perhaps my favorite.

J J Norwich short History of Byz has some nice refernces to females who rulled or fought alongside their men

[William the Bastard]

Elanor of Aquitane is perhaps my favorite.

Fantastic woman. Certainly had a very interesting life. I know she took the cross with her husband on the Second Crusade but can we really call her a general? If we can add Eleanor then may I suggest Empress Matilda.

[Hanny]

Dont see why see was not a general, she provided around a 1000 ships, not bad logistical support, and thats without any of the input women of her stsure gave to others to impement.

[Stalins Ghost]

Hey, never worry about crimes of your ancestors. You are, after all, your own person. I could say with confidence that every major nation or state that has ever existed has commited horrific crimes. The trick is to embrace the good done by ancestors while utterly condemning the bad at the same time.

For example, I take pride in the way Britain helped provide a language that would prove able to allow the world to communicate better, but I will not hestitate to criticise the mess it and other countries made of Africa and the middle-east among other things.

[Ringeck]

Matilda of Canossa (already referenced) got a book recently:

http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/articles/hay.html

[SSJPabs]

What about Margaret of Anjou at Tewkesbury I think it was?

[gaius valerius]

I was thinking of this disney movie girl, that chinese chick that acted like a man, with the little dragon... naah she won't do I suppose.

As far as the medieval period is concerned you see many strong women behind the scenes, but not that many women actively leading armies à la Jean D'Arc.

My favourite strong women at the moment, apart from sweet Eleonara is the wife of Stephen of Blois... "oh honey I don't wanna crusade..." "like hell you will, I'm the daughter of William the Conquering bastard you retard nitwit" Stephen leaves for the holy land... heehehe

[Quark]

gaius valerius
While I heartly agree with Eleanor I feel that Matilda of Tuscany la Gran Contessa would have given here a good hiding (military wise), she certainly annoyed Henry IV of the HRE.

[William the Bastard]

I remembered one woman that we can add to the list. Fulvia the wife of Marc Antony and mother in Law to Octavian (for a while on both accounts). She was certainly not of the normal female Roman mould.

We could also add Cleopatra VII but that may be seeing too much into Octavian's propaganda to consider her as Antony's co-general.

[Centurion-Lucius-Vorenus]

Mai Waifu.

[Exarch]

women fighting?
LOL
the only thing women are good at are cooking, cleaning and servicing the troops.