empress• Also patron of divorce and empresses.• Her rank, though high, did not meet the level protocoldemanded of future empress.• I will be bright, and shine in pearl and gold, To wait upon this new-made empress.• Also patron of empresses, parenthood, princesses, and second marriages.• It was the complaint of the Empress Matilda that her father had married her, an empress, to a count.• Criticism of the empress has developed along at least three different lines.