Women in Power: Aristocratic Female Serial Killers

The desire to wield power over others is as old as humanity. “Empowerment” was, in the past, usually identified with sociopathic impulses. This was preceding the top-down social engineering protocols that have been promoted by the government/corporate partnership, that has during the second half of the 20th century, taken over all aspects of western society.

Children have been trained to perform for rewards – a method designed by behaviorist psychologists who believe than people are nothing but animals that can be trained to behave in any manner the trainers wish. Moral relativism has been inculcated into children by the rule-makers as a replacement for the age-old imperative of self-mastery. This makes it easier for the “empowered ones” to control the docile and impulsive public.

Here are some stories of “empowerment” that might possibility challenge portions of politically correct dogma we have been inundated with our entire lives.

The subject of gynarchy and specious feminist claims of female rulers’ superior sense of justice is conveniently outlined in the excellent overview of the subject: “Fingering the Gynarchy” (by Tawil, A Voice for Men, Sep. 1, 2013).

This collection was originally designed to include aristocrats exclusively. The original title is retained, but some high-ranking elected officials and totalitarian bureaucrats, most of whom have been involved in genocide, have been added.

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►Before 1600 BC – Queen Ji Xia – China

“Xia Ji killed three husbands, one ruler, and one son, and ruined one state and two ministers.”

►1200 BC – Fu Hao – China

►5th Century BC – Parysatis of Persia – Persian Empire

The long catalogue of her cruel and bloody deeds without a parallel even in the history of Oriental despotisms.

►316 BC – Queen Olympias – Macedonia

Proxy violence (murders by command) committed with excessive cruelty against female rival and her child as well as hundreds of others.

► 1st c BC – Princess Laodice of Cappadocia – Kingdom of Pontus, Anatolia

Laodice poisoned five of her six sons. The sixth, an infant, was rescued before she had a chance to kill him.

►42 BC – Anula of Anuradhapura – Sri Lanka

In her five-year reign Queen Anula (reigned 47 BC – 42 BC) poisoned her way through at least four other husbands and consorts and eventually governed Rajarata on her own.

►48 AD – Valeria Messalina – Rome

“In a seven-year period, between the ages of fifteen and twenty-two. Messalina murdered dozens of imperial courtiers, many of whom had managed to survive the psychopath Caligula, only to perish at the urgings of Messalina, merely because they were friends of one of her illicit lovers or had witnessed some aspect of her misconduct.” [Vronsky]

 

►59 AD – Julia Agrippina – Rome

Peter Vronsky notes that among Agrippina’s victims were one of her husbands (2nd?); Caligula’s wife, Lollia Paulina (49 AD); Domita Lepida (sister-in law), (49 AD?), Claudius (54 AD). [p. 74]

►275 – Queen Zenobia –  Syria

She murdered a series of lovers with her pet serpent and defeated the eastern armies of the Romans.

►597 – Fredegund, Queen of Franks – Merovignian Kingdom, Soissons, France

Fredegund is said to have strangled the Queen Galswintha in order to marry the king and to have murdered her three stepsons. Because her first two sons died in infancy, she accused a number of women of witch craft and had them tortured. She is also reputed to have ordered the assassination of Sigebert I of Austrasia in 575 and also to have made attempts on the lives of Sigebert's son Childebert II, her brother-in-law Guntram, king of Burgundy, and Brunhilda (sister of Galswintha).

►705  – Empress Wu Zetian – China

According to traditional accounts: She suffocated her own newborn daughter, accused the empress of the crime, and then replaced her. She killed or exiled their supporters and countless others; she murdered twelve branches of the imperial family; she purged the scholars and killed or exiled them and their families; she had the crown prince Li Hong poisoned.

►800 – Queen Eadburh – England

“This Queen Edburga was a handsome murderess, who poisoned people when they offended her.” [many alternate spellings exist]

►1010 – Freydis Ericsdotter – Early (Viking) America

Those who opposed her were slain, and among them were five women she killed with her own hand.

►1196 – Mahaut de Bourgogne – France

Mahaut (1150-Dec. 17, 1192), the only surviving child of the Duke Robert de Hauteville became the countess of Grignon “is said to have killed four husbands.”

►1200 – Ta-Ki – China

When a female rival appeared on the scene she had her killed and sent the body, cut into pieces, to the murdered woman's father, whom she also caused to be assassinated.

1315 – Queen Margaret of Burgundy – France

According to the chronicler Brantome, she used to lure the handsomest young officers in the army to her retreat, the Tour de Nesle, and then, “having obtained what she wished of them, caused them to be tied in a sack and thrown into the Seine.”

►1324 – Alice Kyteler – Ireland

She was married four times, to William Outlawe, Adam le Blund, Richard de Valle and, finally, Sir John le Poer who suspected he was being poisoned. On his death, the children of her four husbands accused her of using poison and sorcery against their fathers and of favouring her first-born son William Outlawe.

►1382 – Queen Giovanna I – Naples

Giovanna I is thought to have murdered one husband and several lovers.

►1300s – Sultana Khadeejah – Maldives

The Maldives have had a few women in charge but [Sultana] Khadija [or Khadeejah] was one you wouldn’t forget. She probably came to power after murdering young brother. In 1363 her husband tried to take over so she killed him too. Ten years later her second husband tried the same thing and me a similar fate.

►1533 – Katerina of Komarova – Bohemia

►1610 – Elizabeth Báthory – Hungary

Countess Bathory and four collaborators were accused of torturing, sexually mutilating and murdering  hundreds of girls, with one witness attributing to them over 650 victims, though the number for which the defendants were convicted was 80. A description of her method: “Elizabeth rose up on her bed and bit the girl on the cheek. Then she turned to the girl’s shoulders, where she ripped out a piece of flesh with her teeth. After that, Elizabeth proceeded to bite the girl’s breasts.”

►1613 – Donna Catherina – Ceylon

She poisoned her husband, Mahatissa, surnamed The Robber [Cora-Niiga, or Niiga the rebel, or robber], and ascended the throne. In the course of five years she married and killed five husbands and was finally put to death by her step-son. Donna Catherina is not acknowledged as a queen by the Sinhalese chroniclers.

►1663 – Queen Nzinga – Ndongo (Angola)

According to the Marquis de Sade’s Philosophy in the Boudoir, Nzinga was a woman who "immolated her lovers." De Sade's reference for this comes from History of Zangua, Queen of Angola. It claims that after becoming queen, she obtained a large, all male harem at her disposal. Her men fought to the death in order to spend the night with her and, after a single night of lovemaking, were put to death.

►1676 – Brinvilliers, Marquise de – France

Marie de Brinvilliers was reported to have poisoned fifty or more victims. Prior to murdering her father, who opposed her marriage, and then her two brothers to seize an inheritance, Marie experimented with poisons concocted by her lover in hospital charity wards, where she began volunteering to care for patients. She carefully observed the effects of her poison on the patients, adjusting the doses accordingly.

►1762 – Darya Saltykova – Russia

Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova was a Russian serial killer and noble. Saltykova was a Russian noble from Moscow who became notorious for torturing and killing and torturing 138 female serfs. She beat them with logs and rolling pins and reportedly mutilated their genitals.

►1828 – Queen Ranavalona the Cruel  – Madagascar

“With a fanaticism that would have made Mary Tudor proud, she came up with creative and inventive ways to eliminate any one caught practicing Christianity. They were tortured, flung from cliffs, boiled in water, poisoned, flung off cliffs or beheaded if they didn’t recant.”

►1836 – Olga Konstantinovna Briscorn – Kursk, Yekaterinoslav and Saint Petersburg, Russia

►1870 – Julia von Ebergenyi – Munich, Germany; Vienna, Austria

►1880s – Sultana Pangyan Inchi Jamela – Philippines

We were told that she had become the wife of the previous Sultan, after having killed two husbands; that she was not his first wife, but that the present Sultan was her son;  that she had put him in succession to the throne by the simple process of poisoning his elder brother and sister, who were not her children, and their mother;  and that she had then poisoned her husband, which  made her son the Sultan.

►1895 – Queen Mother Nyirauhi V Kanjogera – Tutsi Tribe, Rwanda

Mother of Tutsi King Msinga, whose chief claim to fame is the fact that she poisoned six of her relatives in order to insure the safe reign of her son Msinga.

►1800s – Princess Alexandra Vladimirovna Kozolovskaya – Russia

►1800s – Princess Anna Stepanovna Sheleshpanskaya – Chukhloma, Russia

►1800s – Honorata Stotskaya – Mozyr Uyezd, Russia

► 1896 – Queen Ashantehemaa Yaa Akyaa – Ashanti Kingdom

She had climbed to power through a long series of political marriages. During her career she had 50 husbands, all of whom had been put to death by her orders except Prempeh’s father.

► 1908 – Dowager Empress Cixi (Tsi Si) – China

She had a large lumber of successive paramours. When she became bored with each, he would be sent off to be executed.

►1918 – Taytu Betul – Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

The Empress of Abyssinia is believed to have murdered ten husbands in her climb to the top and her manic desire to wield power. A number of highly instructive aphorisms expressing the ruthless philosophy of the feminine art of empowerment have been attributed to her.

►1921 – Rosalia Zemliachka (Rozalia Samuilovna Zalkind) – Soviet Russia

This case is, it goes without saying, does not feature an aristocrat, yet, in the modern world, collectivist dictatorships do indeed operate very similarly to feudal systems. Thus one could argue that this woman, who eventually became vice president of Communist Russia, enjoyed an above-the-law elite government status equal perhaps to a duchess or a countess. Rosalia Zemliachka, or Rozalia Samuilovna Zalkind (Russian: Залкинд Розалия Самуиловна), (20 March 1876 – 21 January 1947) was nicknamed “Devil” and “Fury of the Communist Terror” for her personal participation in mass murders of prisoners following the Civil War.

►1976 – Jiang Qing “Madam Mao” – People’s Republic of China

Jiang Qing, actress formerly a film actress known as Lan Ping, was the wife of Mao Tse Tung (Zedung), Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, became the leader of the notorious Red Guards who were charged with detroying all vestiges of traditional culture, brutally persecute “virtually all engineers, managers, scientists, technicians,” regardless of their loyalty to Communist rule. A vindictive gandiose sociopath, Jiang Qing behaved as if she were Empress of China.

She arranged for the murder and torture of her political opponents. She arraged Zhou Enlai’s adopted son (Sun Yang) and daughter (Sun Weishi) to be tortured and murdered by Maoist Red Guards. In 1968 Jiang forced Zhou to sign an arrest warrant for his own brother. She was nicknamed “The White-Boned Demon,” after her eventual fall from power.

►1994 – Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, Minister for Family and Women’s Affairs – Rwanda

In 2001, the United Nations court established that between April and June 1994 that mother-and-on genocide-perpetrators – Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, Rwanda’s former minister for family and women affairs, and her son, Arsene Ntahobali, a former militia leader – with assistance of the extremist Hutu militia known as the Interahamwe, went to Butare and abducted hundreds of ethnic Tutsis.

“Many were physically assaulted, raped and taken away to various places in Butare, where they were killed. During the course of these repeated attacks on vulnerable civilians, both Nyiramasuhuko and Ntahobali ordered killings. They also ordered rapes. Ntahobali further committed rapes and Nyiramasuhuko aided and abetted rapes,” said the judgment read out by presiding Judge William Sekule. [“Rwandan woman is first ever convicted of genocide,” theGrio, June 24, 2011]

►1998 – President Bijana Plavsici – Srpska Republic (short-lived Yugloslavia breakaway state)

Bijana Plavsici, popularly known as “The Serbian Empress,” a biology professor turned politician who called herself “The Serbian Iron Lady” (evoking Stalin’s fabricated name, which means “iron”) was convicted of war crimes committed during the Bosnian War (1992-1995) by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia December 16, 2002, the result of a plea bargain allowing her to avoid trial on genocide (ethnic cleaning series of mass murders) and a large number of other war crimes charges. She served only a portion of her prison term and was released October 27, 2009.

As the former president of Republika Srpska, she led Bosnia-Herzegovina in conducting genocidal murders against Bosnian Muslims during the 1990s. Her public pronouncements advocating ethnic cleansing, which she termed a “natural phenomenon,” detailing that six million Serbs needed to be exterminated, rallied her followers to commit massive and ruthless war crimes.

In 1992, a widely-circulated photographed showed her stepping over the body of a dead Muslim civilian to kiss the notorious Serb warlord Zeljko Raznjatovic, known as Arkan.

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Count as of June 20, 2020: 40 cases

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