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Empress Deng Sui
Empress Deng Sui (邓绥, 80–121) was the empress of Emperor He of Han and, after his death in 105, regent for about fifteen years, remembered for famine relief and scholarship.
Empress Dowager Cao's regency
Empress Dowager Cao's regency (曹太后垂帘) was Empress Dowager Cao's rule from behind the screen in the Song dynasty after Emperor Renzong died and Yingzong took the throne.
Empress Dowager Chengtian
Empress Dowager Chengtian, personal name Xiao Chuo and childhood name Yanyan, was the effective ruler of the Liao empire for roughly four decades between 969 and 1009.
Empress Dowager Cixi (慈禧太后)
Empress Dowager Cixi (慈禧太后), 1835–1908, Manchu consort and de facto ruler of Qing China for nearly fifty years; staged the 1861 Xinyou coup, crushed the 1898 Hundred Days' Reform, backed the Boxers, then launched the New Policies reforms.
Empress Dowager Dou
Empress Dowager Dou, or Dou Yifang, was the wife of Emperor Wen of Han and mother of Emperor Jing, dominating the Han court until her death in 135 BC.
Empress Dowager Feng's regency and reforms
Empress Dowager Feng's regency and reforms (冯太后临朝称制) was her personal rule over the Northern Wei dynasty from 476, launching the salary law, equal-field system, and three-elders reforms.
Empress Dowager Guo
Empress Dowager Guo (郭太后) was a Tang dynasty imperial consort, granddaughter of the general Guo Ziyi, who served as empress dowager through five emperors' reigns and refused the regency.
Empress Dowager Ling
Empress Dowager Ling (灵太后) was a regent of the Northern Wei dynasty who held court for the child Emperor Xiaoming, patronized Buddhism, and was twice ousted by a coup.
Empress Dowager Ling's regency and fall
Empress Dowager Ling's regency and fall (灵太后专政) was Empress Dowager Ling's personal rule over the Northern Wei dynasty from 515 to 528, ended by the Heyin massacre.
Empress Dowager Longyu (叶赫那拉·静芬)
Empress Dowager Longyu (叶赫那拉·静芬, Yehe Nara Jingfen, 1868–1913), Guangxu's empress and the last Qing empress dowager, ruled as nominal regent for Puyi and on 12 February 1912 issued the abdication edict ending imperial China.
Empress Dowager Xiang
Empress Dowager Xiang (向太后, 1046–1101) was the Song empress consort of Emperor Shenzong who, as regent in 1100, chose Emperor Huizong as successor over Zhang Dun's objection.
Empress Dowager Xiao's Regency
Empress Dowager Xiao's Regency (蕭太后攝政) was Empress Dowager Xiao's rule of the Liao dynasty: 13 years as empress, then 27 as empress dowager, about 40 years in all.
Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang
Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang (孝庄文皇后), born Bumbutai of the Borjigit clan, was a Mongol consort of Hong Taiji, mother of the Shunzhi Emperor, and grandmother of the Kangxi Emperor.
Empress Dowager Xie
Empress Dowager Xie (谢道清) was the empress of Emperor Lizong of the Southern Song dynasty, who negotiated submission to the Yuan as a vassal to preserve the state.
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Sisi, 1837–1898), wife of Emperor Franz Joseph, Queen of Hungary from 1867, reclusive traveler, assassinated in Geneva in 1898 by anarchist Luigi Lucheni; subject of the enduring Sissi film myth.
Empress Genmei
Empress Genmei (元明天皇), also read Gemmei, was the 43rd monarch of Japan, reigning from 707 to 715 and moving the capital to Heijō-kyō (Nara) in 710.
Empress Genshō
Empress Genshō (元正天皇), 44th monarch of Japan, reigned 715–724 in the Nara period; daughter of Empress Genmei and only empress regnant to succeed another, overseeing the Yōrō Code, the Nihon Shoki (720), and the 723 Sanze-isshin-hō land law.
Empress Gi (奇皇后)
Empress Gi (奇皇后, Oljei-qutuq), a Goryeo tribute maiden who became second and then first empress of Yuan emperor Toghon Temür, mother of Northern Yuan emperor Ayushiridara, and a power broker in Yuan-Goryeo politics.
Empress Jia Nanfeng's domination of the court
Empress Jia Nanfeng's domination of the court (贾南风专政) was the period from 291 to 300 when Empress Jia Nanfeng, wife of Emperor Hui of the Western Jin dynasty, held power.
Empress Jingū
Empress Jingū (神功皇后), also recorded as Okinagatarashi-hime, is a semilegendary regent of ancient Yamato Japan who led an invasion of Silla in Korea, per the chronicles.
Empress Jitō (持統天皇)
Empress Jitō (持統天皇, 645–703), 41st sovereign of Japan, reigned 690–697 after a regency for her husband Emperor Tenmu. Daughter of Tenji, she promulgated the Asuka Kiyomihara Code, founded Fujiwara-kyō in 694, and became the first daijō tennō.
Empress Ki (TV series)
Empress Ki (기황후) is a 2013-2014 MBC Korean historical drama, 51 episodes, starring Ha Ji-won, Ji Chang-wook, and Joo Jin-mo, dramatizing the Goryeo-born Yuan empress; it drew a historical distortion controversy and premiered at 11.1% ratings.
Empress Kōgyoku (皇極天皇)
Empress Kōgyoku (皇極天皇), also Empress Saimei (斉明天皇), 594–661, was Japan's 35th and 37th sovereign and the first to re-ascend the throne, reigning 642–645 and 655–661, abdicating after the Isshi Incident and dying in Kyushu preparing the Baekje relief expedition.
Empress Kōken (孝謙天皇)
Empress Kōken (孝謙天皇), also Empress Shōtoku (称徳天皇), reigned twice over Nara Japan as its 46th and 48th sovereign (749–758, 764–770), daughter of Emperor Shōmu, defeater of the Fujiwara no Nakamaro rebellion and patron of Dōkyō.
Empress Kōmyō
Empress Kōmyō (光明皇后), born Fujiwara no Asukabehime, was the consort of Emperor Shōmu and in 729 became Japan's first empress raised from outside the imperial family.
Empress Liu's regency
Empress Liu's regency (刘太后临朝) was the eleven-year rule of Empress Liu as regent for the child Emperor Renzong, the first empress regent of the Song dynasty.
Empress Lü
Empress Lü (吕雉) was the wife of Liu Bang, founder of the Han dynasty, and ruled China as empress dowager and regent until her death in 180 BC.
Empress Masako
Empress Masako (雅子), born Masako Owada 1963, is empress consort of Emperor Naruhito of Japan, a former Harvard- and Oxford-educated diplomat who married him in 1993 after a seven-year courtship.
Empress Matilda
Empress Matilda (1102–1167), also called Empress Maud, daughter of Henry I, widow of Emperor Henry V, and heir designated by oath, fought King Stephen in the Anarchy, ruled briefly as Lady of the English, and secured her son Henry II the throne in 1154.
Empress Meng
Empress Meng (孟皇后, 1073–1131) was the first empress of Emperor Zhezong of Song; twice deposed and twice restored, she twice served as regent during the founding of the Southern Song.