Thanks for the awesome link...
Quote Originally Posted by ReiseReise
Women Knights in the Middle Ages http://www.heraldica.org/topics/orders/wom-kn.htm
In the meantime;
I would just want to point out that not speaking combatively; but managerial-ly;

I have read several accunts of Ladies giving the orders for -particularly - seige defense when their husbands were away.

I am not so much asking that the queens be battle units; only that MYSELF i dislike that the character vanishes as soon as married...

and that charm is her only trait.

Realistically; the queen/duchess/contessa/baroness (etc) is going to have quite an impact when her husband is way - even when he isn't.

And I meant merely as "second in command"; those nations that allow a queen to actually rule... well; enough said.

Vaguely relatedly, emissaries tended to be of noble families; rather than professional trained diplomats; for the best part, and to the best of my knowledge.

PS: Does anyone but me think that when the vatican chooses a cardinal he should become an "NPC"?