Women in post-classical warfare

A variety of roles were played by women in post-classical warfare. James Illston says "the field of medieval gender studies is a growing one, and nowhere is this expansion more evident than the recent increase in studies which address the roles of medieval women in times of war....this change in research has been invaluable". He provides a 20-page bibliography of dozens of recent scholarly books and articles, most of them connected to the crusades.[1] See also Women in the Crusades.

Timeline

Lady Xian

Dihya

Lathgertha

Gülnar Hatun

Æthelflæd

Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou

Empress Xiao Yanyan

Matilda of Tuscany

Florine of Burgundy

Moremi Ajasoro

Tomoe Gozen

Hōjō Masako

Hangaku Gozen

Hulagu Khan with Doquz Khatun

Rudrama Devi

Joan I of Navarre

Joanna of Flanders

Isabella of France

Jadwiga of Poland

Philippa of England commands the defenders of Copenhagen (1428)

Joan of Arc

Margaret of Anjou

Jeanne Hachette

Caterina Sforza

5th century

• 4th–6th century: Possible time period that the legendary woman warrior Hua Mulan may have lived.[2]
• 5th century: Princess Sela acts as a pirate. The Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus described Sela as a "skilled warrior and experienced in roving."[3][4]
• 450 – A Moche woman was buried with two ceremonial war clubs and twenty-eight spear throwers. The South American grave is discovered in 2006, and is the first known grave of a Moche woman to contain weapons.[5]
• 451: Saint Genevieve is credited with averting Attila from Paris by rallying the people in prayer.[6]

6th century

• 6th century: A Saxon woman is buried with a knife and a shield in Lincolnshire, England.[7]
• 6th century: Lady Xian personally leads her army in China.[8]
• 6th century: Hamila, a Ghassanid princess, assisted the warriors of her tribe in the battle of Yawm Halima. [9]
• 6th century: Amalafrida leads a revolt.[10]
• 533-4: Antonina (wife of Belisarius), joins her husband in the Vandalic war.[11][12]
• 589:[13] The royal nuns Basina, daughter of Chilperic I, and Clotilda rebel and take power in the city of Poitiers by the use of an army of criminals.[14]

7th century

• 7th century (before 637): Life of Mo Chua of Balla. The account of his life describe him as converting two violent "Amazons" named Bee and Lithben.[15][16]
• 617–618: Princess Pingyang of China helps overthrow the Sui Dynasty by organizing an "Army of the Lady".[17]
• 624: Battle of Badr. Qurayshi Arab priestess Hind bint Utbah leads her people against Muhammad in the fight. Her father, uncle, and brother are killed.[18] Rufaida Al-Aslamia, the first Muslim nurse, attends to the wounded.[19]
• 625: Hind bint Utbah is among fifteen women accompanying troops in a battle near Medina, singing songs to inspire warriors. She exults over the body of the man who killed her father, chews his liver, and makes jewelry from his skin and nails.[20]
• 625: Nusaybah bint Ka'ab fights in the Battle of Uhud on behalf of Muhammad after converting to Islam.[21] Hammanah bint Jahsh also participated in the Battle of Uhud and provided water to the needy, and treated the wounded and injured.[22] Umm Sulaym bint Milhan entered the battle carrying a dagger in the folds of her dress, and tended to the wounded. She also made attempts to defend Muhammad when the tide of the battle turned against him.[23]
• 627: Umm Sulaym bint Milhan participates in the Battle of the Trench carrying a dagger in her robes. When Muhammad asked her what she was doing with it, she informed him that she planned to use it to fight deserters.[23]
• 630s:[24] Ghazala leads troops in battle.[25]
• 630s: Khawlah bint al-Azwar participate actively in combat during the Battle of Adnajin dressed as a man along with several other women, takes command of the Rashidun army at the Battle of Yarmouk against the Roman Byzantine Empire. She was nearly beaten by a Byzantine Greek when one of her female companions, Wafayra, beheaded her opponent with one blow. This act rallied the Arabs and they defeated the Greeks.[26]
• 632: Prophetess Sajah, a contemporary of Muhammad, led an army of 4,000 against Medina after his death, but called off the attack when she learned of the defeat of Tulayha.[27]
• 634: Umm Hakim single-handedly disposed of seven Byzantine soldiers with a tent pole during the Battle of Marj al-Saffar.[28]
• 651: Female Sasanian generals like Apranik, Negan and Azedeh fight against the Muslim conquest of Persia.[29]
• 653: Chen Shuozhen leads a peasant rebellion in China, declaring herself empress regnant of China.[30]
• 656: Aisha, widow of Muhammad, leads troops at the Battle of the Camel. She is defeated.[31]
• 690s: Dihya or Kahina leads Berber resistance against the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.[32]

8th century

• 8th to 11th century (Viking Age): Sagas and historical records tell of Viking shieldmaidens like Lagertha participating in battles and raids,[33] such as Veborg in the Battle of Brávellir in 750.[34][35] In addition, remains of a Birka Viking warrior were confirmed in 2017 by DNA analysis to be female.[36]
• 722: Queen Æthelburg of Wessex destroys the town of Taunton.[37]
• 730: A Khazar noblewoman named Parsbit commands an army against Armenia.[38]
• 738: According to legendary Czech history, Valasca seized power and created a state ruled by women.[39]She decreed that only women were to receive military training and that boys were to be maimed to render them unable to fight by removal of the right eye and thumb. She supposedly distributed a potion to the women of Bohemia which protected them from men.[40]
• 769: Gülnar Hatun, a semi-legendary Turkish heroine, is killed fighting the Abbasids.[41][42]

9th century

• 811: After suffering great losses, Khan Krum mobilizes the women of the Bulgars, who then take part in the Battle of Pliska.[43]
• 816-837: Banu, wife of Babak Khorramdin, resists against the Islamic Abbasid Caliphate.[44]
• 880: Ermengard of Italy conducts the defense of Vienne until forced to surrender in September 882.[45]

10th century

• 10th-century: According to legend, Saint Theodora of Vasta, in Arcadia of Peloponnesus, joined the army of Byzantine Empire in her father's stead dressed as a man, to spare her father from conscription, and had no brother who could take his place: when refusing to marry a woman who claimed to have been made pregnant by her, she is executed, resulting in the discovery of the biological gender of her corpse, and her status as a saint for the sacrifice she made for her father.[46]
• 900: A Viking woman is buried in Solør, Norway with weapons.[47]
• 912–922: Reign of Æthelflæd, queen of Mercia. She commanded armies, fortified towns, and defeated the Danes. She also defeated the Welsh and forced them to pay tribute to her.[48]
• 914: Queen Sugandha and her forces marched against the Tantrins. She was defeated and deposed.[49]
• 916: Xochitl (Toltec), a Toltec queen, fights in a civil war the erupted in the Toltec Empire. She created and led a battalion made up entirely of women soldiers.[50]
• 960: Ethiopian queen Gudit laid waste to Axum and its countryside, destroyed churches and monuments, and attempted to exterminate the members of the ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of Aksum.[51][52]
• 971: Sviatoslav I of Kiev attacked the Byzantine Empire in Bulgaria in 971. When the Varangians were defeated in the siege of Dorostolon, the victors were stunned to discover shieldmaidens among the fallen warriors.[53]
• 975: Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou, acting for her sons Guy and Bertrand, led an army to aid Guy (a.k.a. Guido II), Count-Bishop of le Puy, in establishing the "Peace of God" in le Puy.[54]
• 986: The Khitan Dowager Regent Empress Xiao Yanyan of the Khitan Liao state, regnal title Chengtian, assumes power at age 30 in 982. In 986, personally led her own army against the Song dynasty and defeated them in battle.[55][56][57][58][59]

11th century

• Early 11th century: Freydís Eiríksdóttir, a Viking woman, sails to Vinland with Þorfinnr "Karlsefni" Þórðarson. When she faced hostile natives while pregnant, she exposed her breasts and beat her chest with a sword. This caused the natives to run away.[60]
• 11th century: Great Saxon Revolt. Adelaide of Savoy, Duchess of Swabia, remains in Swabia to defend her husband's lands.[61]
• 11th century: Judith d'Évreux is left in the care of Roger I of Sicily's garrison while he campaigns. [62]
• 1016: Adela of Hamaland defend the fortress Uplade in the Netherlands in the absence of her spouse, and fills out the ranks of her defense force with women dressed as soldiers.[63]
• 11th century: Sikelgaita commands troops in her own right.[64]
• 1047: Akkadevi, an Indian princess, besieges the fort of Gokage.[65]
• 1050: Norwegian noblewoman Bergljot Håkonsdatter raise an army to kill the king for murdering her spouse and son: she takes the king's estate, but by then the king had manage to escape her.[66]
• 1055: Defeat and execution of A Nong, Zhuang ruler, warrior, and shamaness. Alongside her son, father, and husband, she led the Zhuang and Nùng minorities of the Sino-Vietnamese frontier against Vietnamese and Chinese foes.[67]
• 1058–1086: Sikelgaita of Salerno, second wife of Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia, accompanies her husband on military campaigns, and regularly puts on full armor and rides into battle at his side.[68]
• October 14, 1066: Edith the Fair, according to folklore, identifies Harold Godwinson's body after the Battle of Hastings.[69]
• 1071: Richilde, Countess of Hainaut is captured fighting in the Battle of Cassel.[70]
• 1072: Urraca of Zamora, Infanta of the Kingdom of Castile, defends the city of Zamora against her brother, Sancho.[71]
• 1087: Matilda of Tuscany personally leads a military expedition to Rome in an attempt to install Pope Victor, but the strength of the imperial counterattack soon convinced the pope to retire from the city.[72]
• 1090: Norman woman Isabel of Conches rides on horseback, armed .[73]
• 1097: Florine of Burgundy participates in the first crusade with her spouse, and fell participating in actual combat by his side while their army was attacked and destroyed in Anatolia.[74]

12th century

• 12th century: Moremi Ajasoro of the Yoruba is taken as a slave by the Igbo and married their ruler as his anointed queen. After familiarizing herself with the secrets of her new husband's army, she escaped to Ile-Ife and revealed this to the Yorubas, who were then able to subsequently defeat them in battle.[75]
• 12th century: Yennenga of the Mossi people of Burkina Faso leads her own battalion.[76][77]
• 1101: Ida of Formbach-Ratelnberg leads her own army in the Crusade of 1101.[78]
• January 1108 or 1109: Bertha of Rheinfelden "fought manfully" in the Battle of Jedesheim.[79]
• 1119: Clementia of Burgundy raises an army.[80]
• 1121: Urraca of León fights her half-sister, Theresa, Countess of Portugal when she refuses to surrender the city of Tui, Pontevedra.[81]
• 1130: Female Chinese general Liang Hongyu, wife of general Han Shizhong of the Song Dynasty, blocks the advance of the Jin army with her husband. Her drumming invigorated the Song army and rallied them to defeat the Jin.[82]
• 1136: Welsh princess Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd leads an army against the Normans. She is defeated and killed.[83]
• 1141: Matilda I, Countess of Boulogne raises an army to continue the fight for the crown of England, after her husband, King Stephen is captured by the Empress Matilda.[84]
• 1145: Eleanor of Aquitaine accompanies her husband on the Second Crusade.[85]
• 1147: Fannu, an Almoravid princess, participate in the defense of the Almoravid dynasty capital's fortress in Marrakech dressed as a man during the conquest of the Almohad jihad.[86] [87]
• 1150: The Swedish nobleman Jon Jarl are killed by Baltic pirates who attacks his estate Askenös after his return from the First Swedish Crusade, after which his widow, the Lady of Askanäs (her name is not preserved), flee to Hundhammar, gather an army and return to kill the murderers of her spouse.[88]
• 1170–1176: Aoife MacMurrough conducts battles in Ireland on behalf of her consort Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and is sometimes known as "Red Eva".[89]
• 1180–1185: Female Japanese warrior Tomoe Gozen fights in the Genpei War alongside men.[90]
• 1172: Alrude, Countess of Bertinoro commanded the army that fought to lift an imperial siege of the town of Aucona in 1172.[91]
• 1182–1199: Hōjō Masako rides with her spouse Minamoto no Yoritomo on his campaigns and was never defeated in battle.[92]
• 1191–1217: Nicola de la Haye defended loyalist interests against rebel barons in Lincoln, England.[93]
• 1198: Maud de Braose defends Plainscastle against Welsh attack.[94]
• 1199: Joan of England, Queen of Sicily took arms against the lords of Saint-Felix, and laid siege to a castrum belonging to them known as Les Cassés.[95]
• Late 12th-century: Umadevi, consort of King Veera Ballala II, commanded Mysore armies against the rival Chalukyas on at least two occasions,[96] allowing Bellala to concentrate on administrative matters and thus significantly contributing to the Hoysalas' conquest[97] of the Chalkyua at Kalyani (near present-day Bidar).

13th century

• 1201: Japanese woman Hangaku Gozen defends a fort as an archer until she is wounded by an arrow.[98]
• 1226: Yesui, one of the wives of Genghis Khan accompanies her husband as he set out on a punitive expedition to the Tangut kingdom.[99]
• 1220s: Yang Miaozhen acts as war leader in China.[100][101]
• 1236–1239: Reign of Razia Sultana.[102] She led her troops in battle.[103]
• January 1229: Blanche of Castile led her forces to attack Mauclerc.[104]
• 1249: Magistra Hersend accompanied Louis IX of France on the Seventh Crusade. [105]
• 1258: Doquz Khatun accompanies her husband Hulagu on campaigns. At the Sack of Baghdad in 1258, the Mongols massacred tens of thousands of inhabitants, but by the order of Doquz, the Christians were spared.[106]
• 1261–1289: Reign of Indian queen Rudrama Devi. She leads her troops in battle, and may have been killed in battle in 1289.[107]
• 1264: Eleanor of Provence raises troops in France for her husband during the Baron's War.[108]
• 1270: Eleanor of Castile accompanies her husband on his crusade. According to legend, she saved his life by sucking poison from his wound when he was injured.[109]
• 1271: Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France dies at Cosenza on the way back from the Crusades.[110]
• August 1282: Dina and Clarenza assist in repelling a siege of Messina.[111]
• 1285: Mercadera, dressed as a man, wounds and captures a French knight during the French siege of the Aragonese city of Peralada.[112]
• 1290: Royal Armouries Ms. I.33 is written. It depicts fighters. An illustration of a woman named Walpurgis training in sword and buckler techniques is in the manuscript among others.[113]
• 1296: Bertha van Heukelom defends Castle IJsselstein against Hubrecht van Vianen of Culemborg[114]
• 1297: Joan I of Navarre, Countess of Champagne, leads an army against the Count of Bar when he invaded her domain Champagne.[115]
• Late 13th century: Khutulun, a relative of Kublai Khan, is described as a superb warrior and accompanies her father Khaidu on military campaigns.[116]

14th century

• 14th century: Urduja, a Filipino princess, takes part in several battles. Many historians believe that she was mythical, however.[117]
• 14th century: Women of the Mississippian Culture in the Central Illinois River Valley Region participated in warfare, defending their camp, if needed, while men were out hunting.[118]
• 1326: Isabella of France invades England with Roger de Mortimer, and overthrows Edward II of England, replacing him with her son Edward III of England, with her and de Mortimer acting as regents.[119]
• 1335: During the Second War of Scottish Independence Christina Bruce commanded the garrison of Kildrummy Castle and successfully held the castle against pro-Baliol forces led by David III Strathbogie.[120]
• 1335: The Scots defeat a company led by the Count of Namur. Amongst the Count's casualties was a female lancer who had killed her opponent, Richard Shaw, at the same moment that he had killed her. Her gender was only discovered when the bodies were being stripped of their armor at the end of the engagement. "The chronicler Bower seems to have been at least as impressed by the rarity of two mounted soldiers simultaneously transfixing one another with their lances as with the fact that one of them was a woman."[121]
• 1338: Agnes, Countess of Dunbar successfully defends her castle against a siege by England's earl of Salisbury.[122]
• 1342–1343: Joanna of Flanders conquers the city of Redon and defends the city of Hennebont during the Breton war.[123]
• 1341-1347: Empress Irene Asanina commands the garrisson of Didymoteicho and defend the city during the Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347.[124]
• 1347: Philippa of Hainault persuaded the King to spare the lives of the Burghers of Calais. This popularity helped maintain peace in England throughout their long reign.[125]
• 1348: Empress Irene Asanina organize the defense of Constantinople against the Geneuse.[126]
• 1351–1363: Han E serves as a soldier in the Chinese army as a man under the name Han Guanbao, and is promoted to lieutenant.[127]
• 1351–1357: Cia Ordelaffi née Marzia degli Ubaldini an Italian noblewoman from Forlì came in help of Lodovico Ordelaffi during the battle of Dovadola (part of the Guelphs and Ghibellines war). In 1357 she took part in the defense of Cesena during the Forlivesi crusade induced by Pope Innocent VI.[128]
• 1353: Empress Irene Asanina organize the defense of Constantinople against the army of John V.[129]
• 1354: Ibn Battuta reports seeing female warriors in Southeast Asia.[130]
• 1358: Richardis of Schwerin defends Sönderborg Castle on Als against Valdemar IV of Denmark.[131]
• 1364–1405: Timur uses female archers to defend baggage trains.[130]
• 1387: Queen Jadwiga of Poland leads two military campaigns.[132]
• 1389: Frisian regent Foelke Kampana leads armies to assist her spouse Ocko Kenisna tom Brok, chief of Auricherland: after finding him dead on the battlefield, she returns to Aurich, and upon finding it taken by an enemy during her absence, she retakes it by military force.[133]
• 1395: Agnes Hotot takes part in a lance duel while dressed as a man, only revealing her gender once the fight is won.[134][135][136]

15th century

• 15th century: Qutlugh Nigar Khanum accompanies her son on military expeditions.[137]
• 1419: Margaret of Bavaria defends French Burgundy against John IV, Count of Armagnac.[138]
• 1420: Tang Sai'er starts a rebellion against the emperor of China and take two cities with her rebel army before she is defeated.[30]
• 1428: Cecília Rozgonyi commanded her own ship in battle toward the Ottoman Empire under Sigismund of Hungary at Golubac fortress.[139]
• 1428: Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, successfully organized the defence of Copenhagen against the Hanseatic League, a heroic feat later recounted by Hans Christian Andersen in Godfather's Picture Book (1868).[140]
• 1429: Joan of Arc asserts that God has sent her to drive the English out of France, and is given a position in the French Royal army.[141] She is supported by Yolande of Aragon, mother of Queen Marie d'Anjou (wife of King Charles VII).[142]
• 1430s: Jeanne des Armoises was a soldier in Italy.[143]
• 1430: Aldonça de Bellera defends her barony of Rialp in Catalonia against Count Arnau Roger of IV Pallars.[144]
• 1433: Ida Königsmarck legendary defense her fief Kastelholm Castle on Åland in Swedish Finland during the Engelbrekt rebellion.[145]
• 1450s: Zaydi Yemeni chieftain Sharifa Fatima conquers San'a'.[146]
• 1451–1452 : Brita Tott serves as a spy in the war between Sweden and Denmark[147]
• 1455: Elise Eskilsdotter leads a war against the German merchant class of Bergen in Norway as revenge for the murder of her spouse, by means of her pirate fleet.[148]
• 1461: Alice Knyvet defends Buckingham Castle at Norfolk against Sir Gilbert of Debenhem.[149]
• 1466: Pomellina Fregoso stages and supports a rebellion against Lambert in the provinces of Menton and Roquebrunem.[150]
• 1467: Ólöf Loftsdóttir personally leads a war against British traders working in Iceland.[151]
• 1471: Queen Margaret of Anjou personally leads her troops in the Battle of Tewkesbury.[152]
• 1472: Onorata Rodiana from Cremona, Italy is mortally wounded in battle. She had disguised herself as a man to become a soldier.[153]
• 1472: Jeanne Hachette rips down the flag of the invading Burgundians at Beauvais, inspiring the garrison to win the fight.[154]
• 1474: Caterina d'Ortafà participate in the defense of Canet-en-Roussillon during the French invasion of Roussilon following the Catalan Civil War.[155]
• 1480: Margareta of Celje defends the city of Glogow against the forces of the duke of Sagan, who lay siege to the town.
• 1480s: Mandukhai Khatun takes command of the Mongol army and defeats the Oirats.[156]
• 1481: Dutch noblewoman Swob Sjaarda defends her castle during a siege in the Netherlands.[157]
• 1487: Katarina Nipertz defends Raseborg Castle in Finland, the fief of her late spouse, against the troops of the new vassal appointed by the regent, for several weeks.[158]
• 1494: Ats Bonninga defends her fort in Friesland.[159]
• 1496: Bauck Poppema defends her fort in Friesland.[160]
• 1499: Caterina Sforza successfully defends Forli against a Venetian attack and become famous and nicknamed "The Tiger".[161]

See also

• Timeline of women in ancient warfare
• Timeline of women in early modern warfare

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Further reading

Surveys

• De Pauw, Linda Grant. Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present (University of Oklahoma Press, 1998), popular history by a leading scholar
• Fraser, Antonia. The Warrior Queens (Vintage Books, 1990)

Medieval

• Bauer, Susan Wise (2010). The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade (illustrated ed.). W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0393078176.
• Blythe, James M. "Women in the Military: Scholastic Arguments and Medieval Images of Female Warriors," History of Political Thought (2001), v.22 pp. 242–69.
• Edgington, Susan B. and Sarah Lambert, eds. Gendering the Crusades (2002), 13 scholarly articles
• Hacker, Barton C. "Women and Military Institutions in Early Modern Europe: A Reconnaissance," Signs (1981), v6 pp. 643–71.
• Hay, David. "Canon Laws Regarding Female Military Commanders up to the Time of Gratian: Some Texts and their Historical Contexts", in A Great Effusion of Blood'? Interpreting Medieval Violence, eds. Mark D. Meyerson, et al. (University of Toronto Press, 2004), pp. 287–313.
• Hay, David. The Military Leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046-1115 (Manchester University Press, 2008).
• Hingley, Richard, and Unwin, Christina. Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen (2006).
• Illston, James Michael. 'An Entirely Masculine Activity'? Women and War in the High and Late Middle Ages Reconsidered (MA thesis, University of Canterbury, 2009) full text online, with detailed review of the literature
• Lourie, E. "Black women warriors in the Muslim army besieging Valencia and the Cid's victory: A problem of interpretation," Traditio, 55 (2000), 181–209
• McLaughlin, Megan. "The Woman Warrior: Gender, Warfare and Society in Medieval Europe," Women's Studies 17 (1990), pp. 193–209.
• Maier, C.T. "The roles of women in the crusade movement: a survey" Journal of medieval history (2004). 30#1 pp 61–82
• Nicholson, Helen. "Women on the Third Crusade," Journal of Medieval History 23 (1997), pp. 335–49.
• Solterer, Helen. "Figures of Female Militancy in Medieval France," Signs 16 (1991), pp. 522–49.
• Tuotuo. Liaoshi [History of Liao]. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1974 (or Tuotuo, Liaoshi (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1974))
• Verbruggen, J.F. "Women in Medieval Armies," Journal of Medieval Military History 4 (2006), pp. 119–36.

China

• Keay, John (2010). China: A History. HarperCollins UK. ISBN 978-0007372089.
• McMahon, Keith (2013). Women Shall Not Rule: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Han to Liao. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-1442222908.
• Peterson, Barbara Bennett, ed. (2000). Notable Women of China: Shang Dynasty to the Early Twentieth Century (illustrated ed.). M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0765619297.
• Toqto'a; et al. (1344). Liao Shi (宋史) [History of Liao] (in Chinese).
• Van Derven, H. J., ed. (2000). Warfare in Chinese History. Volume 47 of Sinica Leidensia / Sinica Leidensia (illustrated ed.). BRILL. ISBN 978-9004117747.
• Wang, Yuan-Kang (2013). Harmony and War: Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics (illustrated ed.). Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231522403.

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