Semiramis
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Semiramis was the legendary Lydian-Babylonian wife of Onnes and of Ninus, who succeeded the latter on the throne of Assyria, according to Movses Khorenatsi. Legends narrated by Diodorus Siculus, who d
The Shepherd finds the Babe Semiramis by Ernest Wallcousins, 1915
Semiramis staring at the corpse of Ara the Handsome, 1899, by Vardges Sureniants
Semiramis hearing of the insurrection at Babylon by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1624, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Margaret I of Denmark
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Margaret I was queen regnant of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden from the late 1380s until her death, and the founder of the Kalmar Union that joined the Scandinavian kingdoms together for over a century.
Semiramis
…as an unfavorable comparison, for example, against Elizabeth I of England, and as an example of a woman who governed well. Powerful female monarchs Margaret I of Denmark and Catherine the Great were given the designation Semiramis of the North. The mother of the sultan in "The Man of Law's Tale" in Geoffrey Chaucer's…
1423 effigy on Margaret's tomb in Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark
Margaret's parents, King Valdemar IV (left) and Queen Helvig (right), c. 1375.
A page from a letter in which Margaret informs her husband King Haakon VI of her and her servants' distress at Akershus Fortress, asking him to provide sustenance and conveying various news. Dated 18 October, c. 1370.
Margaret's Royal Arms combined the arms of the three kingdoms, according to the Nationalmuseum.