Queen Elizabeth

[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:

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

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

• 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

• 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

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

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

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

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

• Elizabeth of Valois (1602-1654), queen consort of Spain: daughter of Henry IV of France; wife of Philip IV of Spain

• 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 von Wittelsbach (1838-1898) (Portrait (http://www.kfki.hu/keptar/english/b/benczur/muvek/erzsebet)), queen consort of Hungary and empress consort of Austria: wife of Franz Josef I of Austria

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

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

• Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (b. 1926), queen regnant of the United Kingdom: daughter of George VI of the United Kingdom

* 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.

See also: the ocean liners[?] R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth and R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth 2.