If one believes John of Rheinfelden, then there were in 1377 decks, which had had only women as court cards.
There's in chess and its many variants the condition, that Eastern countries didn't have a Queen, but other figures. Only the European countries had a Queen in chess ... so it looks to me, but I haven't controlled this completely.
For the first note about the Courier game in the Wigalois (c. 1210) we have the condition, that the women had the Courier game between their things, not the men.
There's some suspicion, that Theophanu, mother of Otto III, brought chess to Germany. There's evidence of chess in Einsiedeln in Switzerland and a very old chess poem (10th century). Otherwise chess is then and before known in Cordoba, which was in this period possibly the largest city in Europe.
In the Courier game there is a specific opening, which involves the Queen. A similar curiosity appears in the chess variant "short assize" ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_assize
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_chess
Both variants appear very early. Somehow possibly a sign, that female players were involved in the studies of early chess.
In the run of general history we have the curious condition, that there was a long time a male emperor in Constantionople ... then it happened, that Irene became empress ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_of_Athens
.... and it happened, that Charlemain in Aachen claimed to become an emperor himself.
Has these events an influence on the development of the European chess Queen?
It seems to me, that Ulrike Wörner overlooks the condition, that chess preceded the playing card development. When I type "Schach" in the search engine of the book text, I get enough notes about chess, but nothing, which reflects the missing Queen in Asian chess versions. When chess entered Europe, the probable ways would have been either Cordoba or Constantinople.
When I type Courier, Currer or Kurier in the book search engine, I get zero results. Evrart Conty is also negative.
The book is a dissertation, 39 Euro.
The author in an interview ....
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Ulrike Wörner (Jahrgang 1945) ist Kuratorin der Ausstellung “Frau am Kreuz - eine neu entdeckte Kultfigur” und Autorin des Katalogs.
Artikel aus der Passauer Neuen Presse vom 30. September 2015
https://www.kloster-asbach.com/pressespiegel/