• Queen-consort

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      • 1782, Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica. â„– V. Chapter The present State of this Hospital, concluding with a List of the Royal Patronesses from its Foundation to the present Time, When there is no Queen-conÅ¿ort, the King nominates the maÅ¿ter, brothers, &c. pro hac vice. But the Queen-dowager hath no power or juriÅ¿diction when there is a Queen-conÅ¿ort; all the attemps that have been made in ancient and modern times for this purpoÅ¿e have proved ineffectual, and the Å¿entences of the courts of law have unanimouÅ¿y confirmed the great and unlimited power of the Queens-conÅ¿orts of England over this Å¿mall eccleÅ¿iaÅ¿tical juriÅ¿diction.
      • 1839, William White, Lectures on the Lawfulness and Advantages of National Establishments of Religion Chapter Lecture II, And seeing a queen-consort has no official capacity in which she can nurse the Church, they hold that the king also should nurse the church only in his individual and not in his official capacity.
      • 1879, Edward Marshall, Historical and Descriptive Notices of the Parish of Deddington, Oxon. Chapter Remarkable Persons and Events, with other Subjects of Interest, It would be beyond the purpose of these Notices to enumerate all those who have been connected with Deddington, and have attained distinction, for several of those who have obtained a grant of the manor from time to time have their place in the history of England, some of them being of the royal family, or queens-consorts.
      • 1995, Rachel Gibbons, Medieval Queenship, It is clear that women did rule in medieval Europe, as queens-regnant , queens-regent or unofficially through the hidden influence of the queen-consort.
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