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This is a list of empresses organized alphabetically by empire or country and chronologically by years of reign.

Austria

Eudoxia (395–404)
Eudocia (421–441)
Theodora (527–548)
Irene (797–802)
Zoe (1028–50)
Theodora (1042, shared throne with Zoe; 1055–56)
Eudocia Macrembolitissa (1068–71)
Irene Ducas (1081–1118)

St. Adelaide (962–973)
Agnes of Poitou (1043–62)
Matilda (1114–25)
Constance (1191–97)
Isabella II (1225–28)
Maria Theresa (1745–80)

Livia Drusilla (27 bce–14 ce)
Messalina Valeria (41–48 ce)
Pompeia Plotina (98–117)
Annia Galeria Faustina (147–175)
St. Helena (c. 274–289)
Aelia Galla Placidia (421)
Pulcheria (450–453)

Catherine I (1725–27)
Anna (1730–40)
Elizabeth (1741–61)
Catherine II (1762–96)
Alexandra (1894–1918)

This article was most recently revised and updated by Naomi Blumberg.