EmpressDowager Cixi [tsʰɹ̩̌.ɕì] (29 November 1835 – 15 November 1908), was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who effectively controlled the Chinese...
EmpressDowager Bo (薄太后), personal name lost into history, was an imperial concubine of Emperor Gaozu of Han (Liu Bang). She was also known as Consort...
1908, after which she was honoured as EmpressDowager Longyu. She was posthumously honoured with the title Empress Xiaodingjing. She became regent during...
honoured as EmpressDowager Kangci during the reign of her step-son, Yizhu, the Xianfeng Emperor. She was the only Qing empressdowager who was neither...
Empress Xiaozhao (孝昭皇后) and EmpressDowager Shangguan (上官太后), was an Empress, EmpressDowager and Grand EmpressDowager during the Han dynasty and wife...
She was honoured as EmpressDowager Zhaosheng during the reign of her son, Fulin, the Shunzhi Emperor, and as Grand EmpressDowager Zhaosheng during the...
EmpressDowager Zheng (鄭太后, personal name unknown) (died December 26, 865), formally Empress Xiaoming (孝明皇后, "the filial and understanding empress"), was...
EmpressDowager Dong (fl.156 - 7 July 189), personal name unknown, formally known as Empress Xiaoren, was an empressdowager of the Eastern Han dynasty...
known as EmpressDowager Bian or Grand EmpressDowager Bian, formally known as Empress Wuxuan, was an empressdowager and later grand empressdowager of the...
officially Empress Xiaoyuan (孝元皇后), later and more commonly known as Grand EmpressDowager Wang, born in Yuancheng (modern Handan, Hebei), was an empress during...
honoured as EmpressDowager Chongqing during the reign of her son and posthumously honoured as empress, although she never held the rank of empress consort...
honoured as EmpressDowager Gongci during the reign of her step-son, Mianning, the Daoguang Emperor. She was the longest-serving empress consort in Qing...
ascended the throne, and Sun became the empressdowager (Chinese: 孫皇太后; pinyin: Sūn huáng tàihòu). A day before he died, Xuande issued instructions that...
Dowager Cixi. Although the EmpressDowager Tzu-hsi of the Ching Dynasty had promised her nephew, Emperor Kuang-hsu that he had complete autonomy, he found...
empress consort, through her husband Emperor Gaozong and then as an empressdowager, through her sons Emperors Zhongzong and Ruizong, from 660 to 690,...
(17 June 2000). "EmpressDowager Nagako; Widow of Japan's Hirohito". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 3 March 2023. "Japan's DowagerEmpress Dead at 97". CBS...
EmpressDowagerHe hostage and tried to flee from the palace. Lu Zhi intercepted the eunuch Duan Gui (段珪) and saved the empressdowager from him. He Jin's...
of Emperor Cheng. Emperor Cheng wanted to make Feiyan the new empress, but EmpressDowager Wang complained about her low birth and prior occupation as a...
EmpressDowager Xiaoding (1545 – 18 March 1614), of the Li clan, was the mother of the Wanli Emperor. She was the nominal Regent of China during the minority...