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Eleanor of Aquitaine went on crusade with a company of 300 women.
Queen Hedwig of Poland was crowned as a king because she wanted everyone to understand that she was the monarch, even if she was a woman.
Empress Irene was ruling the Byzantine Empire when Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the West.
Queen Margaret I of Denmark ruled Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland for over twenty years.
Queen Margaret I had no legal right to reign, but she was asked to because the nobility respected her so much.
When an army came to remove Queen Margaret I, she completely destroyed it.
Queen Ethelfleda of Mercia kicked the Vikings around and drove them out of parts of England.
St. Hildegard of Bingen composed a play set to music, writing the music down so we can still play and sing it.
St. Hildegard of Bingen also had visions, many of which were written down.
St. Joan of Arc, a farm girl, became the leader of the French armies when she was seventeen. At that point, the French were close to losing the Hundred years War, but by the time she was captured and executed at age nineteen, she had put the English army on the defensive and the French were winning.
Marie de France was a great poet, whose life is completely unknown to us.
Anna Comnena wrote a diary, which is invaluable to historians because of its detailed descriptions of the Byzantine court of her day.
With the single exception of Joan of Arc, all of these women were literate.
Because medieval people were religious, they believed that cleanliness was next to godliness, or the condition of the body was a reflection of the condition of the soul. The result was that medieval women tended to be very clean. Women sometimes ate apart from men so the men would not see them with greasy fingers.