Women who Died trying to become Queen

sometimes all it takes is one wrong move by a queen to many times throughout history there have been Mistresses and concubines waiting for their time to pounce and take power for themselves Too Many Kings have often had far too many mistresses mistresses who have poisoned and cursed and even fought as men alongside their possible future husbands all in the attempt to become the favorite these are the stories of some Mistresses those who would do nearly anything to become a queen but fell just [Music] short iness ptis decastro de valades a castian noble woman holds a

special place in Portuguese history for her tragic love affair with King pedo the first or soon to be king pedo the first despite her Castilian Roots her Tomb at the alcabasa monastery line opposite that of her royal lover has made her story a well-known one for generations of Portuguese school children which is weird because it's very much rated R uness arrived in Portugal in 1339 as a lady in waiting to infanta constanza of Castile who was marrying Pedro the heir to the Portuguese Throne though Pedro was married to constanza he immediately fell in love with

the young iness after constanza's death in 1345 bed's father King Alonso IV became alarmed at his son's open affair with iness and her family's growing Castilian influence the fear was that Portugal might be in danger of falling to their Iberian neighbors so in 1344 Alonso had iness imprison to separate the lovers but after constanza's death bedel brought iness back against his father's wishes rumors spread that iness and her family were scheming to disinherit bed's legitimate son fernandoo in favor of vess's children then in 1355 while Pedro was away the king sent assassins to take out

the 29-year-old iness at a Convent they removed her head right there in front of her own children I mean who does that those guys did Pedro's Devastation led to civil war against his father when he finally became king in 1357 he declared he had secretly married iness legitimizing their children in a show of Vengeance two of ness's Assassins were executed by having their hearts torn out though likely fictional Legend claimed that Pedro later exume nessa's body and forced the court to kiss her dead hand as though she were Queen yeah that have been a hard

pass for [Music] me in 1940 a previously unknown autobiographical novel from the kamic cor period which lasted from 1185 to 13 33 title toaza gatari or a tale no one asked for was discovered by a scholar named yamagishi toku in the Imperial household library in Tokyo it was a rare and significant find most surviving literature from that era consisted of imitative Works rather than Original Stories the TOA zuk gatari was written by a mysterious figure named lady nio a concubine of an emperor one who instead of rising to become Queen became a Buddhist nun now

that's a hard pivot but one that actually wasn't that uncommon for many Japanese concubines who realize they would never make it to the top that'd be kind of like taking a coaching job after you realize you're never going to make it to the show in baseball lady nio came from an aristocratic family her father was a chief counselor of State who descended from the powerful MiniMoto Clan and her mother served as wet nurse and lover to the ex Emperor go fukakusa at just 14 years old nio was made a lady in waiting and concubine to

the Aging go fukakusa thanks to an agreement between him and her father she remained devoted to the ex Emperor but never achieved the highest rank of consort now this might be because of the fact that she had a few other side flings while she was a concubine of the emperor including one with a noble from a rival Clan you see when you're a side piece you cannot have a side piece I need to put that on a t-shirt after her father's early death and the passing of the son she had with go fukakusa lady nio

was sent into Exile in 1283 at the age of 25 allegedly due to jealousy from the ex Emperor's main consort following her father's dying wish she became a Buddhist nun and spent years traveling to Temple before writing her memoirs the tzuk gatari provides some pretty rare insight into the life of a court lady but lady nio likely had her own motivations and writing it according to Scholars the work seemed aimed at defending her reputation and creating an idealized version of herself in order to restore her family standing and Associate them with the ex Emperor as

she wrote that all my dreams might not prove empty I had been writing this useless account lady nijo probably didn't expect her account to survive very long but it did it's one of the rare firstand perspectives on life in the Kamakura Imperial Court that continues fascinating Scholars around the world today Madame deont span had a calculated approach to becoming the Mistress of French King Louis the 14th she was full of charm and Beauty sure but she was also full of patience and was able to play the waiting game as Louis enjoyed the affection of both

his Queen and his mistress and Montes spon's friend Louise de la valer Madame de montespan sees her chance when both the queen and Louise de la valer were pregnant in late 1666 leaving the king feeling lonely and you know feeling other things unlike some of Louis the 14's other Mistresses she handled the situation with poise and an appetite for the bedroom that was pretty prolific by any standards Madame de montis span proved to be an insatiable match for the notoriously lustful King Louis the 14th cers claimed they let's say engaged in intimate relations at least

three times a day and the King sometimes wouldn't even wait for her aun R to leave before kicking things off Madam deont span's influence over the king eventually drew a lot of resentment from many at court but things soon took a darker turn when investigations into alleged poison plots and black magic began her name surfaced repeatedly with Witnesses accusing her of collaborating with a notorious poison dealer named only as lot weine one witness claimed that they used black magic rituals to maintain the king's affections for her shocking Tales emerged including accusations that Madame de montis

span participated in a black MK were priest perform rights over her naked body while praying to the devil while unproven the damage to her reputation was irreparable and she remained at court for a decade after her downfall never regaining her status and watching the king take another mistress before finally retiring to a [Music] Convent Jen Antoinette Pon better known as Madame De pador Rose from a humble background to nearly becoming the queen of France and even though she never achieved her ultimate goal she did help make France the hoyy toyy art and culture Mecca we

know it as today in 1790 when she was just nine Jen antonette's mother took her to a fortune teller who told them that one day she would Reign Over the heart of a king from then on she took the nickname rette or Little Queen the best tutor started coming to her home she was taught dancing theater drawing painting in short she was being groomed to become the Mistress of Louis the 15th that was the goal to become the mistress now when she was 19 Jen Antoinette married an old named Charles Gom leomont but then she

got in cozy with the court of the king knowing Louis the 15th was on a hunting trip near her estate she was determined to catch his eye while she was following the Royal hunting party she managed to maneuver in front of the king once while riding in a pink Carriage with a Blue Dress she then apparently somehow changed into a pink dress and swapped carriages this time choosing a blue one and cross the king's path again apparently she knew the king's preferred color combinations plus being beautiful didn't hurt either Lou ended up sending her a

romantic bouquet of venison meat I mean she did catch his eye while he was hunting and nothing says love like venison Lou then invited her to Versailles for masked ball where he disguised himself as a utree and then I guess flung off his tree mask and declared his love for Jen Antoinette who was dressed up as Diana the huntress in a not to their color coordinating hunting encounter Jen Anette quickly became the king's primary mistress and lady in waiting to the Queen the highest possible honor for a woman in a French Court he gave her

the marqueis pomidor complete with title code of arms and an estate and Jen Antoinette became Madame de pador she quickly became what basically amounted to a prime minister pador was involved in some major foreign policy decisions and always had the ear of the King as a patron of art and culture pador made Paris the capital of taste and culture in Europe she championed French Pride through projects like establishing the famous seev porcelain Factory she patronized tons of prominent artists of the Roco Style like bue and na pador herself was a bit of an artist dabbling

in gym engraving acting and print making though pador began as the king's mistress by around 1750 their relationship became one without the bedroom aspect to it instead of love her pador transitioned to the role of the king's closest friend and Confidant she was apparently quite ill during this time and there was a bit of pressure on the king during the Jubilee year to repent his sins one of them obviously being adultery but in the end Madame de pador would never become a queen but she certainly acted like one Katherine onette was a 20-year-old cordier when

the 46-year-old French King HRI IV recently widowed after the death of his mistress Gabriel destre fell for her charms before surrendering her virtue though the opportunistic Catherine demanded 100,000 crowns from the King Catherine managed to coax HRI into providing her a written promise that he would marry her and make her Queen Katherine flaunted This Promise in front of the cier like a kid showing off a new toy at the playground the thing is though HRI didn't honor the promise and instead made the politically motivated move of marrying Marie deichi of the powerful Italian Michi family

now whether or not HRI actually agreed to the contract is up for debate some think she might have forged it and HRI just did his best 17th century version of This Woman's tripping now despite all this Catherine remained the king's mistress and also served as lady in waiting to the new Queen Marie but she was a lady in waiting with an attitude she was apparently perpetually disrespectful towards the queen now we don't know so many details about how but we can assume she made funny faces at her behind her back and said things like wow

that outfit makes you look interesting to top it all off Catherine got pregnant by HRI and delivered her son just weeks after Marie's first son was born now the king legitimized Catherine's son instead of the queen ooh the burn the frustrated Queen Marie tried unsuccessfully to expel Catherine from Court Catherine became embroiled and plot to make her son the king of Spain but HRI forgave her it seemed like everything was lining up for a royal Shakedown with Catherine potentially becoming Queen and her son eventually King but then HRI was taken out by Catholic Zealot he

hadn't made too many friends as king and had at least 12 attempts on his life the last one was clearly the most successful it usually is after hre's demise in 1610 the Regent Queen Marie immediately expelled Catherine from Court not wanting things to go on any further in terms of her Ambitions to become Queen Catherine lived for another 23 years until she died at age 54 having come very close to becoming the queen of France through her cunning but failing in the end Emperor Galu was the first emperor of the Han Dynasty reigning from 202

to 195 BC he rose from humble beginnings as a peasant during the Chen Dynasty eventually marrying Lu G the daughter of his mentor Master Lou when rebellions broke out against the chin gawu took power and eventually became the Supreme emperor of China with Lui as his Empress they complimented each other pretty well gazu was a great talent scout and leader while Lui had excellent political instincts and could eliminate threats with a ruthlessness that was unmatched in the Empire gazu and luji had two children together princess Yuan and her son luin the future Emperor way however

gazu also had concubines Who Bore him other Sons one concubine lady Chi had a son named named Lu rui gazu favored Lu rui and was considering making him his Heir instead of wayi but gazo's ministers convinced him to keep Wei as the Crown Prince before he died in 195 BC after gwu's death Wei became emperor and luji became The emperess Dowager she needed to tie up some loose ends and Lady Chi and her son were two of them plotting and Intrigue were thick in the Hun Dynasty air one day Lui summoned Lu rui to the

capital under false pretenses Emperor wayi was skeptical Lu rui was as half brother after all but the newly crowned Emperor eventually did what his mother said at least in theory while the emperor was away on business Lui had lady Chi's son poisoned Lu G then set her sights on the ex- concubine she captured lady Chi and subjected her to some of the worst things imaginable lady Chi was locked in a pig St telling everyone to refer to her as a human pig until she finally succumbed to the punishment the whole episode hit Emperor away so

hard that he became an alcoholic and died shortly after leaving the Reigns of the Empire to to the brutal consort Lui thanks for watching nutty history if you enjoy our content please like share and comment and also comment below about what you want to learn next