queen-consort

See also: queen consort

English

Noun

queen-consort (plural queens-consort or queens-consorts)

1. Alternative form of queen consort
   • 1782, “The present State of this Hospital, concluding with a List of the Royal Patronesses from its Foundation to the present Time”, in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica. № V. […], London: […] J[ohn] Nichols, pages 42–43:

     When there is no Queen-conſort, the King nominates the maſter, brothers, &c. pro hac vice. But the Queen-dowager hath no power or juriſdiction when there is a Queen-conſort; all the attemps that have been made in ancient and modern times for this purpoſe have proved ineffectual, and the ſentences of the courts of law have unanimouſy confirmed the great and unlimited power of the Queens-conſorts of England over this ſmall eccleſiaſtical juriſdiction.

   • 1839, William White, “Lecture II”, in Lectures on the Lawfulness and Advantages of National Establishments of Religion, Haddington: […] Neill and Sons;  […], pages 44–45:

     And seeing a queen-consort has no official capacity in which she can nurse the Church, they hold that the king also should nurse the church only in his individual and not in his official capacity.

   • 1879, E[dward] Marshall, “Remarkable Persons and Events, with other Subjects of Interest”, in Historical and Descriptive Notices of the Parish of Deddington, Oxon. (Transactions of the North Oxfordshire Archæological Society for the Year 1878), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] James Parker and Co., page 18:

     It would be beyond the purpose of these Notices to enumerate all those who have been connected with Deddington, and have attained distinction, for several of those who have obtained a grant of the manor from time to time have their place in the history of England, some of them being of the royal family, or queens-consorts.

   • 1995, Rachel Gibbons, “Medieval Queenship”, in Reading Medieval Studies: Annual Proceedings of the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies in the University of Reading, volume XXI, →ISBN, page 104:

     It is clear that women did rule in medieval Europe, as queens-regnant , queens-regent or unofficially through the hidden influence of the queen-consort.