Regent

\'Regents' is ones who rule instead of nominal rulers. They are usually appointed in the case the rulers are absent, incapable or minority of the country's monarch or any other political situations.

In history of Japan, use of regents is a common style of governing. Typically, regents hold actual power while nominal rulers are pupets. This is not only seen in politics of national level but also in any other level of governments.

List of regents:

Table of contents

1 China 2 Egypt 3 France 4 Japan 5 Netherlands 6 Scotland 7 United Kingdom

China

• See Empress dowager and Grand Empress Dowager

• Hatshepsut of Egypt for Thutmose III of Egypt

• 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 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.

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

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

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

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