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Regent
A Regent is a person who rules during the absence, incapacity or minority of the country's monarch.
List of regents:
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Egypt
France
- Anne of Kiev, during the minority of her son Philip I
- Catherine de Medici:
- While her husband Henry II of France left the kingdom for the campaign of Metz.
- Later during the minority of her son Francis II of France
- Again during the minority of her second son, Charles IX of France.
- Anne of Austria, during the minority of Louis XIV
- Philippe of Orleans, during the minority of Louis XV
- Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, while living in exile, self-declared Regent for his nephew Louis XVII of France after the 1793 guillotining of King Louis XVI.
Japan
- Fujiwara Regents
- Hojo Regents, regents of the Kamakura shogunate
Netherlands
- Queen Emma, during the minority of her daughter Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
Scotland
- Mary of Guise, during the minority of her daughter Mary Stuart
United Kingdom
- George IV, Prince Regent during the incapacity of his father, George III.
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