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Random Princesses
Charlotte Badger
The first European woman to end up in New Zealand, Charlotte Badger was part pirate, part adopted Maori, and part mom. Which part is which is somewhat lost to history.
Fredegund
Possibly the most cartoonishly evil woman to have ever existed, this Merovingian queen was an endless source of assassination attempts - including, on one memorable occasion, her own young daughter.
Banu Goshasp
This superhero of early Iranian mythology starred in her own stories, and plenty of them.
Mother Lu
When a government magistrate unjustly killed her son, this unassuming middle-aged wife spent years raising an army to topple that same government.
Nanny of the Maroons
Led colony of escaped slaves and protected them from the English using borderline supernatural abilities.
Truganini
The "Last of the Aboriginal Tasmanians" (she wasn't) used brains, brawn, and sheer will to carve a place for herself, even as the world was collapsing around her.
Te Puea Herangi
The reluctant royal who became the Maori's greatest leader.
Timoclea
When a soldier raped her, this woman tossed him in a well and threw rocks at him until he died.
Riina
When flying cannibal ghosts kidnapped two women, there was no man that could save them. But there was a woman.
Yael
Saved the Jewish people by hammering a tent spike through an unsuspecting house guest's head.