* Princess Dowager Helan, mother of emperor Wei Daowudi ( d. 396 )

His mother was Empress Dowager Fujiwara no Junshi ( also called the Gojō empress 五条后 ), daughter of the minister of the left, Fujiwara Fuyutsugu.

His mother was Empress Dowager Fujiwara no Akirakeiko ( 明子 ), also called the Somedono empress 染殿后 ).

Emperor Nicholas II and his mother Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna in 1896.

* Empress Dowager Ding, mother of Murong Sheng

His mother Augusta of Saxe-Gotha becomes Dowager Princess of Wales.

His mother was Empress Dowager Fujiwara no Ishi ( 藤原苡子 )

* 1117 – 1160 Empress ( kōgō ) Fujiwara no Nariko ( 藤原得子 ), Empress Dowager Bifuku ( 美福門院 ), daughter of Fujiwara no Nagazane ( 藤原長実 ); mother of Emperor Konoe.

Only Otto III's mother Theophanu objected, as well as Otto III's grandmother, the Dowager Empress Adelaide of Italy, and his aunt, Abbess Matilda of Quedlinburg.

Because Otto III was still a child ( only eleven when his mother died ), his grandmother, the Dowager Empress Adelaide of Italy, became regent, together with Archbishop Willigis of Mainz, until he became old enough to rule on his own in 994.

Follow his coronation, a rift between Otto II and his mother, the Dowager Empress Adelaide of Italy, developed.

** His mother ( Janet Mountbatten, The Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven ), wife, children, brother and nieces

A number of lives of Edward were written in the centuries following his death in which he was portrayed as a martyr, generally seen as a victim of the Queen Dowager Ælfthryth, mother of Æthelred.

Philippa married Edward at York Minster, on 24 January 1328, eleven months after his accession to the English throne ; although, the de facto rulers of the kingdom were his mother, Queen Dowager Isabella and her avaricious lover Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, who jointly acted as his regents.

His mother Empress Dowager Chu, becomes the ruling authority at court and served as regent.

During the Delicate Investigation, Caroline was not permitted to see her daughter, and afterwards her visits were essentially restricted to once a week and only in the presence of Caroline's own mother, the Dowager Duchess of Brunswick.

In 1241, when Isabella and Hugh were summoned to the French court to swear fealty to King Louis IX of France's brother, Alphonse, who had been invested as Count of Poitou, their mother, the Queen Dowager Blanche openly snubbed her.

During these minorities, the Empress Dowager ( i. e., the Emperor's mother ) would possess significant power.

Prominent examples include Empress Dowager Cixi, mother of the Tongzhi Emperor ( 1861 – 1874 ), and aunt and adoptive mother of the Guangxu Emperor ( 1874 – 1908 ), who ruled China for 47 years ( 1861 – 1908 ), Empress Wu Zetian ( who ultimately declared herself Empress, and was subsequently overthrown ) and the Empress Dowager Lü of the Han Dynasty.

Although the Emperor had the highest status by law, by tradition and precedent the mother of the Emperor, i. e., the Empress Dowager ( 皇太后 ), usually received the greatest respect in the palace and was the decision maker in most family affairs.

Her father later wrote to his mother, Dowager Empress Maria, on 10 September 1911, that the event had upset both girls.

The Sui Dynasty began when Emperor Wen's daughter became the Empress Dowager of Northern Zhou, with her stepson as the new emperor.

When Ping died in 6 CE, the Empress Dowager appointed Wang Mang to act as emperor for the child Liu Ying ( d. 25 CE ).

Zhang Shijie, having escaped the battle, hoped to have Dowager Yang appoint the next Song emperor, and from there continue to resist the Yuan Dynasty.

In 1196 Philip became duke of Swabia, on the death of his brother Conrad ; and in May 1197 he married the Dowager Queen of Sicily, Irene Angelina, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Isaac II and widow of King Roger III of Sicily, a lady who is described by Walther von der Vogelweide as " the rose without a thorn, the dove without guile ".

Tuoba Hong was born in 467, when his father Emperor Xianwen was himself young — at the age of 13, and not yet ruling by himself, but instead was emperor under the regency of Emperor Xianwen's stepmother Empress Dowager Feng.

Cixi ousted a group of regents appointed by the late emperor and assumed regency over her young son with the Empress Dowager Ci ' an.

Empress Dowager Ci ' an suggested enthroning one of Yixin, Prince Gong's sons as the next emperor, but she was overruled by Cixi.

Although Empress Dowager Cixi never forced Guangxu to abdicate, and his era had in name continued until 1908, Guangxu lost all honours, respect, power, and privileges given to the emperor other than its name.

* Mother: Concubine from the Manchu Uya clan ( 1660 – 1723 ), who became known as Empress Dowager Renshou ( 仁壽皇太后 ) when her son became emperor.

The councillors, angry at the Emperor's actions and fearful of losing the political power they had, then turned to the Empress Dowager Cixi to remove the emperor from power.

" Wang had his political allies force Grand Empress Dowager Wang to issue an edict granting him the title of " Acting Emperor " ( 假皇帝 ), with the commission to rule as emperor until a great-great-grandson of Emperor Xuan could be selected and raised.

In the winter of 8, after receiving a false prophecy written by the hoodlum Ai Zhang ( 哀章 ) which pretended to be a divine decree from Emperor Gaozu ( Liu Bang ) stating that the throne should be given to Wang, and that Grand Empress Dowager Wang should follow this divine will, Wang issued a decree accepting the position of emperor, establishing the Xin Dynasty.

The sole emperor of the Xin Dynasty, Wang Mang ( 王莽 ), was the nephew of Grand Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun.

Empress dowager ( also Dowager Empress or Empress mother ) (; Chinese, Korean pronunciation: Hwang Tae Hu, Japanese pronunciation: Kōtaigō, Vietnamese pronunciation: Hoàng Thái Hậu ) was the title given to the mother of a Chinese, Korean, Japanese or Vietnamese emperor.

The emperor had been deposed in 1898 by Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi for instituting Western reforms.

In reference to the fallen Russian imperial family and the Monarchy of China, the term " Dowager Empress " was used in English to describe the wife of a deceased emperor.

He was the second son of the first Han emperor, Han Gaozu and Empress Dowager Lü.

Except for Liu Gong ( who was deposed and executed by Empress Dowager Lü ), the other children either died young by natural causes or were executed by the officials after they made Liu Heng, the Prince of Dai ( Emperor Wen ) the emperor.

After Empress Dowager Lü's death, the officials eliminated the powerful Lü clan, and deliberately chose the Prince of Dai as the emperor, since his mother, Consort Bo, had no powerful relatives, and her family was known for its humility and thoughtfulness.

) Wang had his political allies force his aunt, Grand Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun, to issue an edict granting him the title of " Acting Emperor " ( 假皇帝 ), with the commission to rule as emperor until a great-great-grandson of Emperor Xuan could be selected and raised.

In the spring of 9 AD, Wang Mang, now emperor, made the former Emperor Ruzi the Duke of Ding ' an ( and made his daughter, the former Empress Dowager, Duchess Dowager ).

For reasons unknown, her assistant Liu Shu ( 劉儵 ) recommended Marquess Hong, and after consulting with her father Dou Wu and the Confucian scholar official Chen Fan, Empress Dowager Dou made him emperor, at age 12.