Queen Elizabeth - Definition and Overview

[Note: The name "Isabel" or "Isabella" is sometimes translated into English as "Elizabeth" or "Elisabeth."]

Among the women known to history as "Queen Elizabeth" are, in order of date of birth if alive, date of death if deceased.

Living

• Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (b. 1926), queen regnant of the United Kingdom; Queen of Canada and of numerous other Commonwealth Realms: daughter of George VI of the United Kingdom

Deceased

• The queen mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002), queen consort of the United Kingdom: daughter of Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne; wife of George VI of the United Kingdom; mother of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

• Elizabeth of Bavaria (1876-1965), queen consort of Belgium: wife of Albert I of Belgium

• Elizabeth Hohenzollern (1894-1956), queen consort of Greece: daughter of Ferdinand of Romania; wife of George II of Greece

• Elizabeth of Romania (1843-1916), queen consort of Romania: born Pauline Elisabeth Ottile Luise; wife of Charles I of Romania

• Elizabeth von Wittelsbach (1838-1898) (Portrait (http://www.hung-art.hu/kep/b/benczur/muvek/benczur12.jpg)), queen consort of Hungary and empress consort of Austria: wife of Franz Josef I of Austria

• Elizabeth Farnese (or Isabel Farnese) (1692-1766), queen consort of Spain: daughter of Edward Farnese of Parma (Italy); wife of Philip V of Spain, mother of Charles III of Spain

• Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), queen consort of Bohemia: daughter of James VI of Scotland; wife of Frederick V of Bohemia: nicknamed "The Winter Queen"

• Elisabeth de France (1602-1644), queen consort of Spain: daughter of Henry IV of France; wife of Philip IV of Spain

• Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603), queen regnant of England: daughter of Henry VIII of England and his second wife Anne Boleyn

• Elizabeth Hapsburg (1554-1592), queen consort of France: daughter of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor; wife of Charles IX of France

• Elizabeth of Valois (1545-1568), queen consort of Spain: daughter of Henry II of France; wife of Philip II of Spain

• Elizabeth of Castile (or Isabel of Spain) (1501-1526), queen consort of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden: daughter of Philip I of Castile and Joanna of Castile; wife of Christian II of Denmark

• Elizabeth of Austria (144x-1505), queen consort of Poland: daughter of Albert II, Holy Roman Emperor; wife of Casimir IV of Poland; mother of Saint Casimir

• Elizabeth of Castile (or Isabella of Castile) (1451-1504), queen regnant of Castile & Leon (Spain) and queen consort of Aragon: daughter of John II of Castile; wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon; mother of Joanna of Castile and of Catherine of Aragon; patron of Christopher Columbus

• Elizabeth of York * (1465-1503), queen consort of England: daughter of Edward IV of England; wife of Henry VII of England; mother of Henry VIII of England

• Elizabeth Woodville * (~1437-1492), queen consort of England: wife of Edward IV of England; mother of the Princes in the Tower and of Elizabeth of York

• Elzbieta of Poland (1305-1380), queen regnant of Poland and queen consort of Hungary: daughter of Ladislaus I of Poland; wife of Charles II of Hungary

• Elzbieta Ryksa (1288-1335), queen consort of Bohemia: daughter of Przemysl II of Poland; wife of Rudolf III of Austria

• Elizabeth of Bosnia, daughter of Kuthen, Prince of the Kumans. She married, in 1254, Stephen V of Hungary.

* Elizabeth Woodville and Elizabeth of York are the only mother and daughter to have been queens consort of England.

The "Queen Elizabeth" in James Collinson's 1850 painting The Renunciation of Queen Elizabeth of Hungary (Image (http://artyzm.com/world/c/collinson/renunciation.htm)) is not a queen at all but a princess: St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231), the daughter of Andrew II of Hungary.

There is also a Queen Elizabeth class of Dreadnought battleships. See also: the ocean liners R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth and R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth 2.

There is also a band named Queen Elizabeth.