### q2 English queens were rare in the 10th century > the exemplar of the early tenth-century queen-consort Eadburh who was purported to have abused her queenly authority and ultimately to have poisoned her husband the king. Whatever truth may lie behind Asser’s tale, his observations of West Saxon attitudes to queenship seem to have a certain veracity. After Judith’s consecration, which in itself was informed by her status as a scion of the West Frankish royal family, no English queen is known to have again been anointed as such until over a century later in 973. > > the political milieu of the tenth century would bring several powerful women to the fore, whose authority would seemingly bely any exhortation against the dangers of female power. Yet it also remains that despite any personal agency, such women are only rarely named as queen. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fj78awdqzkdzbj3ngcxykbxr) - [[From Æthelflæd to Ælfthryth The Idea of Queenship in Tenth-Century England by Matthew Firth#q2 English queens were rare in the 10th century|View in Vault]]