Who was the first queen of England?

Question

Who was the first queen of England?

Answer 1

QUEEN ELIZABETH

Answer 2

Ever who was married to the first king. Don't know.

Answer 3

Going back to medieval times it was Redburga married to King Egbert in 802-839.

Answer 4

If you go to this web site then you would know and understand more about the first queen of Enland.

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Answer 5

Mathilda I think - somehow related to King Stephen? 12th Century.

Answer 6

lol Dave H - Graham Norton was the first Queen that popped into my head, but he's Irish

Answer 7

not an answer but a thanks to elijahjo...  have filed your answer.

Answer 8

Elizabeth 1 was first queen of England and Mary her half sister known as Bloody mary was queen of Scotland.

Answer 9

Mary Tudor

6 jul 1553( defacto) to 19jul 1553 (dejure)

Answer 10

Technically the first person declared queen in her own right was Lady Jane Grey, however, the 9 days queen was not a legal heir to the throne, so the first true Queen was Mary Tudor, the eldest daughter of Henry VIII

Answer 11

Mary Tudor

Answer 12

I would go for Boudicca Warrior Queen of the Iceni AD 60.  Born around 30 BC.  Married to King Prasutagus.  The lady was what you might call 'well hard'.

Answer 13

Queen "Bloody" Mary I Tudor of England

(r.1553-1558)

Answer 14

Lady Jane Grey.

Answer 15

elizabeth the first

Answer 16

I do believe that the first Queen of England to rule as a Queen and not married to a king was Elizabeth I,     " a Tudor Queen, the daughter of Henry the VIII ". Unless you include Bodica, but she was know as Queen of the Britans.

Answer 17

dunno........the only queen i know of is the Queen Elizabeth

Answer 18

elton john

Answer 19

Cliff Richard

Answer 20

Empress Matilda (February 1102 – September 10, 1167).  Countess of Anjou or Matilda, Lady of the English, was the daughter and dispossessed heir of King Henry I of England. She was married to Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, and then to Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou, by whom she became the mother of Henry II of England.

Matilda was the first female ruler of the Kingdom of England. Her failure to secure that rule meant that her undisputed period of reign in 1141 was extremely brief.

The first uncrown English Queen was Lady Jane Gray. Lady Jane Grey, formally Jane of England (1537 — 12 February 1554), a grand-niece of Henry VIII of England, reigned as uncrowned Queen regnant of the Kingdom of England for nine days in July 1553.

The first female ruler who was crowned "Queen" of England rather than "Empress of the Kingdom of England" was Mary (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland.

Answer 21

Mary I was the first

otherwise known as "bloody mary"

Answer 22

There is no 100% defininte answer to this.

The candidates are the Empress Matilda, Lady Jane Grey, and Mary I.

Matilda was the daughter of Henry I. She was also know as Maud, the Countess of Anjou or Lady of the English. SHe married firstly Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (no living children), and then tsecondly Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou (3 sons who lived to adulthood, the eldest of whom was later Henry II). Henry I had something like 22 illegitimate children, but his last legitimate surviving son died before him. When Henry I died in 1135, and he left the thone to her. Henry's barons all swore allegiance to her.

Her cousin Stephan grabbed the thone. There was then a long civil war, during which a contempary said "Christ and all his saints slept". Matilda won the Battle of Lincoln in 1141, and ruled for a bit that year.

In the end, the two parties agreed that Stephen would stay King, but would leave his throne to Matilda's son, Henry II. That's what happened.

Lady Jane Grey was the grand-daughter of Henry VIII's younger sister, Mary. When Henry died, in 1547, he left the throne to his son Edward, then his daughters Mary and Elizabeth, and failing their lines, to his sister Mary's children.

As Edward VI was dying childless, in 1553, he was concerned that Mary would bring back the Roman Catholic faith (which she did in the end do). So he wrote something called "My Devise for the Succession" which left the throne to his first cousin once removed, Lady Jane.

Lady Jane was proclaimed Queen, and is often called "The Nine Day Queen". She was deposed after a popular unrising in favour of Mary, and executed the following year, 1554. She was young, about 15 or 16 years old, and undoubtedly a puppet in the hands of others.

Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon, was the first to be crowned and rule unoppsed. She came to the throne in 1553, married Philip of Spain, and died childless in 1558, leaving the throne to her younger half-sister, Elizabeth I.

Answer 23

Mary   1559

Answer 24

Matilda 1141

Lady Jane Grey reigned as uncrowned Queen regnant of the Kingdom of England for nine days (16) in July 1553 - executed by beheading at age 16/17 years old

Mary 1 (Tudor)  (Bloody Mary) 1553 - 1558 .

Answer 25

Graham Norton.