Moving Queens
Recently, I’ve been working on the mobility of medieval queens. I thought a quantitative approach might be useful. To that end, I’ve made a list of 84 marriages for which a woman moved country to become a queen, 950-1150.
I’m sure there are missing names. Who have I missed out?
| name | from | to | husband | date |
| Predslava | Budapest | Kyiv | Sviatoslav I | 950 |
| Adelheid | Burgundy | Aachen | Otto I | 951 |
| Matilda | Paris | Geneva | Conrad I | 964 |
| Emma | Pavia | Paris | Lothar III | 965 |
| Theophanu | Constantinople | Aachen | Otto II | 972 |
| Malfrida | Prague | Kyiv | Volodimir I | 980 |
| Judith | Budapest | Krakow | Boleslaw I | 985 |
| Rozala (Susanna) | Pavia | Paris | Robert II | 988 |
| Anna | Constantinople | Kyiv | Volodimir I | 989 |
| Tyra | Copenhagen | Oslo | Olaf I | 990 |
| Geira | Berlin | Oslo | Olaf I | 982 |
| Gisela | Munich | Budapest | Stephen | 995 |
| Berta | Geneva | Paris | Robert II | 996 |
| Tyra | Copenhagen | Berlin | Burislav | 1000 |
| Emma | Rouen | London | Aethelred | 1002 |
| Richeza | Essen | Krakow | Mieszko II | 1002 |
| Grimelda (Maria) | Budapest | Venice | Otto Orseolo | 1009 |
| Astrid | Stockholm | Oslo | Olaf II | 1019 |
| Ingegerd | Stockholm | Kyiv | Jaroslav | 1019 |
| Judith | Schweinfurt | Prague | Brestislav | 1034 |
| Gunhild | Denmark | Aachen | Henry III | 1036 |
| Richeza (Adelaide) | Krakow | Budapest | Bela | 1039 |
| Maria (Dobronega) | Kyiv | Krakow | Kasimir I | 1040 |
| Agnes | Poitou | Aachen | Henry III | 1043 |
| Gertrude | Krakow | Kyiv | Iziaslav I | 1043 |
| Elisiv (Elisabeth) | Kyiv | Oslo | Harald III | 1044 |
| Anastasia | Kyiv | Budapest | Andrew | 1046 |
| Gyda | Stockholm | Copenhagen | Swein II | 1047 |
| Catherine | Sofia | Constantinople | Isaac I | 1050 |
| Anna | Kyiv | Paris | Henry | 1051 |
| Matilda | Gent | London | William I | 1051 |
| Gunhild | Oslo | Copenhagen | Swein II | 1052 |
| Agnes | Poitiers | Aragon | Ramiro I | 1054 |
| Adelheid | Budapest | Prague | Vratislav II | 1057 |
| Ingeborg | Copenhagen | Edinburgh | Malcolm III | 1059 |
| Swatislav | Krakow | Prague | Vrastislaus II | 1062 |
| Judith | Aachen | Budapest | Solomon | 1063 |
| Helen | Budapest | Zagreb | Zwonimir | 1063 |
| Ingerid | Copenhagen | Oslo | Olaf III | 1067 |
| Ingegerd | Oslo | Copenhagen | Olaf I | 1067 |
| Margaret | Budapest | Edinburgh | Malcolm III | 1068 |
| Anna | Kharkov | Kyiv | Vsevelod I | 1068 |
| Berta | Amsterdam | Paris | Philip I | 1072 |
| Agnes | Poitiers | Leon | Alfonso VI | 1073 |
| Felicia | Ramerupt | Aragon | Sancho Ramirez | 1076 |
| Adelheid | Zaehringen | Budapest | Ladislaus | 1077 |
| Constance | Lyon | Leon | Alfonso VI | 1079 |
| Adele | Gent | Copenhagen | Knut II | 1080 |
| Judith | Prague | Krakow | Wladislaw I | 1080 |
| Agnes | Poitiers | Aragon | Peter I | 1086 |
| Eupraxia | Kyiv | Aachen | Henry IV | 1089 |
| Judith | Aachen | Krakow | Wladislav I | 1089 |
| Berta | Dijon | Leon | Alfons VI | 1093 |
| Olena | Kharkov | Kyiv | Sviatopolk II | 1094 |
| Christina | Stockholm | Kyiv | Mstislaw I | 1095 |
| N | Palermo | Budapest | Coloman I | 1097 |
| Arda | Yerevan | Jerusalem | Baldwin I | 1097 |
| Helbirga | Vienna | Prague | Borivoj | 1100 |
| Matilda | Edinburgh | London | Henry I | 1100 |
| Ingegerd | Oslo | Stockholm | Philip | 1100 |
| Margaret | Stockholm | Oslo | Magnus III | 1101 |
| Morphia | Melitene | Jerusalem | Baldwin II | 1101 |
| Blathmin | Dublin | Oslo | Sigurd I | 1102 |
| Zbyslava | Kyiv | Krakow | Boleslaw III | 1102 |
| Irene (Piroska) | Budapest | Constantinope | John Komnenos | 1104 |
| Sibylla | London | Edinburgh | Alexander I | 1107 |
| Matilda | London | Aachen | Henry V | 1110 |
| Euphemia | Kyiv | Budapest | Coloman I | 1112 |
| Adelaide | Vasto | Jerusalem | Baldwin I | 1112 |
| Matilda | Huntingdon | Edinburgh | David I | 1113 |
| Salome | Berg | Krakow | Boleslaw III | 1113 |
| Malmfred | Novgorod | Oslo | Sigurd I | 1120 |
| Adelheid | Regensburg | Budapest | Stephen II | 1121 |
| Agnes | Babenberg | Krakow | Wladislaw II | 1125 |
| Richeza | Krakow | Copenhagen | Magnus the Strong | 1129 |
| Helena | Belgrade | Budapest | Bela II | 1129 |
| Margaret | L’Aigle | Aragon | Garcia VI | 1130 |
| Christine | Copenhagen | Oslo | Magnus IV | 1132 |
| Viacheslava choslawa | Novgorod | Krakow | Boleslaw IV | 1137 |
| Elisabeth | Budapest | Krakow | Mieszko III | 1140 |
| Lutgarde | Stade | Copenhagen | Eric III | 1144 |
| Euphrosyne | Kyiv | Budapest | Geza II | 1146 |
| Berta | Sulzbach | Constantinople | Manuel I | 1146 |
| Sibylla | Dijon | Palermo | Roger II | 1149 |
