Regent

A regent is an acting governor. In a monarchy, a regent usually rules due to the actual monarch's absence, incapacity, or minority. Occasionally, the term regent refers to positions lower than the ruler of a country; for instance, some university managers are called regents.

Examples of regents in various countries :

It should be noted that those who held a regency briefly, for example during surgery, are not necessarily listed, particularly if they performed no official acts; this list is also not complete.

China

• See Empress dowager and Grand Empress Dowager

Egypt

• Hatshepsut of Egypt for Thutmose III of Egypt

France

• Anne of Kiev, during the minority of her son Philip I
• Catherine de Medici:
  • While her husband Henry II of France left the kingdom for the campaign of Metz.
  • Later during the minority of her son Francis II of France
  • Again during the minority of her second son, Charles IX of France.
• Anne of Austria, during the minority of Louis XIV
• Philippe II of Orleans (1715-1723), during the minority of Louis XV
• Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, while living in exile, self-declared Regent for his nephew Louis XVII of France after the 1793 guillotining of King Louis XVI.

Japan

• Fujiwara Regents as Kanpaku or Sessho
• Hojo Regents as Shikken, regents of the Kamakura shogunate

Netherlands

• Queen Emma, during the minority of her daughter Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

Norway

• Crown Prince Haakon, during the illness of his father King Harald

Scotland

• Mary of Guise, during the minority of her daughter Mary Stuart

United Kingdom

• George IV, Prince Regent during the incapacity of his father, George III.

See also: Regency

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