A collection of articles about female fighters through history, myth and the SCA.
Period Female Warriors
Catalina de Erauso
A excerpt from the autobiography of the Lieutenant Nun, a woman who spent her life fighting under cover as a man.
Joan of Arc
Arguable the most well known woman in medieval history.
Maria of Pozzuoli
An Italian Soldier in 1343 C.E.
Sigelgaita
A Lombardian princess (some times referenced as Gaita) who rode to battle with her husband and rallied the troops.
Skialdmær
Shieldmaids in the Viking Age.
Walpurgis
The woman from the I.33 Manuscript of German sword and buckler fighting from the 1300s.
Women and Chivalry Podcast
The ChivalryToday.com Podcast about Women and Chivalry which explores how women fit into the code of chivalry in medieval history and the modern world.
Women and the Art of Battle in the Late Middle Ages
An overview of women warriors in the late middle ages.
Women Warriors: Myth or Reality?
A great overview of women fighters.
Mythical Female Figures
Eleanor of Tortosa
Camelot’s Lady Knight
Grendel’s mother
A passage from Beowulf that references female fighters.
SCA Female Fighters
By Right Of Arms
Queens and Princesses by Right of Arms in the SCA
Flowers of Souvenance
A 15 issue newsletter than began in the late 80s which presented information for the lady fighters and others.
I’ll See Your Six
All about Sir Trude and her run in with a mugger in the streets of New York.
Order of the Oleander
The Estrella War favor for women who fight on the battlefield.
The Beginning
This story explains how women came to fight, not fight, then fight again in the SCA.
To Rowan Beatrice von Kampfer
A poem about the day Sir Rowan won crown.
Links
· History
- Amazons
by Wikipedia - Christine de Pizan
Not a female warrior, but wrote extensively about the arts of war in period. - Frankish women warriors in Muslim Middle Eastern sources
- Gladiatrix
All about Gladiatrix in History, Film, Literature and more! - Great African Queens
Not all warrior Queens, but a few like Candace and Hatshepsut - Great Women Warriors in History, Myth, Legend, and Pop Fiction
By Mike Sitko - History of women in the military
by Wikipedia - Images of Period Women in Armor
By SuGyong - Iranian Warrior was Female
DNA tests have shown the remains of a 2,000-year-old warrior in an Iranian tomb are those of a woman. - Medieval Women & War
Syllabus, Biblography, and Assorted works by Valerie Eads, Ph.D. - Military and Warfare
By Distinguished Women of Past and Present - Shieldmaidens
by Wikipedia - Warrior Queen Buried in Lincolnshire Grave
Experts have placed the Anglo-Saxon grave at around 410 C.E. - Warrior Women
By Norman J. Finkelshteyn - Warrior Women of Eurasia
by Jeannine Davis-Kimball - Women as Warriors in History
Brought to you by Lothene.org - Women Knights in the Middle Ages
Brought to you by Heraldica.org - Women of Peace and War: The Roles of European Women at the Siege of Acre
Brought to you by Atlantian A&S - Women warriors from Amazon fought for Britain’s Roman army
THE remains of two Amazon warriors serving with the Roman army in Britain have been discovered in a cemetery that has astonished archaeologists.