Tamar of Georgia
Queen regnant of Georgia from 1184 to 1213 · Politicians · Lived 1166 to 1213 · aged 47
She insisted on being called "King." Tamar the Great ruled medieval Georgia at its absolute peak - the only woman to hold the throne in her own right, and the architect of an empire that dominated the Caucasus until the Mongols arrived two decades after her death.
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Proclaimed heir and co-ruler by her father George III in 1178, Tamar faced sharp resistance from the aristocracy when she took full power after his death in 1184. She crushed the opposition and turned outward, using a powerful military elite and the weakening of the Seljuk Turks to expand Georgia into an empire. Her first marriage, to Yury Bogolyubsky of Vladimir, lasted two years before she divorced him, expelled him, and beat back his attempts to seize the throne by force. In 1191 she married the Alan prince David Soslan; they had two children, George and Rusudan, who ruled in succession after her. Her twenty-nine-year reign became the apex of the Georgian Golden Age, and her combination of military success and the sheer fact of her sex turned her into an idealized figure in Georgian memory - a symbol that endures in the culture today.
