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ViktorRaytoday at 5:50 AM2 repliesview on HN

Is is true that they believed women couldn’t rule? England was not the first European country to have a female monarch. By the time all this was going on there had been a female monarch elsewhere in Europe a few decades earlier.

Would be interesting if there were any texts at the time discussing this.

I’m asking out of genuine curiosity not to start an argument.


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pndytoday at 9:18 AM

Jadwiga of Poland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadwiga_of_Poland crowned as king

Anna Jagiellon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Jagiellon

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scott_wtoday at 6:17 AM

So there were some texts later discussing the problems of Elizabeth I being Queen Regnant when all laws and customs referred to a “King.” We also see a lot of her father’s behaviour (Henry VIII) being driven by his need for a male heir. It’s why he tries to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.

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