Regent

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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.