* Empress Xiao

* Empress Xiao, empress and regent of the Liao ( b. 932 )

* Empress Xiao of China ( b. c. 566 )

* Empress Xiao, empress and regent of the Liao ( d. 1009 )

** Empress Xiao Ci Gao

Gaozu placed Empress Lü Zhi and the crown prince Liu Ying ( Lü Zhi's son ) in charge of the capital Chang ' an and making key decisions in court, assisted by the chancellor Xiao He and other ministers.

* Empress Dowager Xiao Zhuang, initially Consort Zhuang ( 莊妃 )

Image: Kaiserin-Xiaoxian1. jpg | Empress Xiao Xian

* Grand Empress Dowager Xiao Wenshou ( 422-423 ), during the reign of Emperor Shao

* Grand Empress Dowager Xiao Noujin ( 1055 – 1057 ), during the reign of Emperor Daozong

* Grand Empress Dowager Xiao Tansi ( 1101 – 1118 ), during the reign of Emperor Tianzuo

** Empress Xiao

** Empress Ren Xiao Wen ( birth name: Xu Yihua )

Born Zhu Zhanji, he was the eldest son of the Hongxi Emperor and Empress Cheng Xiao Zhao.

** Empress Cheng Xiao Zhao

* Empress Xiao Gong Zhang ( 孝恭章皇后 ), family name Sun ( 孫 ) ( died September / October 1462 ), daughter of Sun Zouzhong ( 孫鄒忠 ), initially created an Imperial Concubine ( 嬪 ) in 1417, elevated to the rank of Noble Consort ( 貴妃 ) upon the Xuande Emperor's accession in 1425, created empress in 1428 after the deposition of Empress Gong Rang Zhang, became Empress Dowager ( 皇太后 ) upon the accession of her son, created Empress Dowager Shang Sheng ( 上聖皇太后 ) in December 1449, created Empress Dowager Sheng Lie Ci Shou ( 聖烈慈壽皇太后 ), mother of the Zhengtong Emperor and Princess Changde

* Empress Dowager Xiao Yi ( 孝翼太后 ), family name Wu ( 吳 ) ( died December 1461 ), daughter of Wu An ( 吳安 ), granddaughter of Wu Yanming ( 吳彥名 ), created Consort Xian ( 賢妃 ) in 1428, initially given the posthumous name Consort Rong Si Xian ( 榮思賢妃 ), posthumously honored as Empress Dowager Xiao Yi by the Chongzhen Emperor, mother of the Jingtai Emperor

** Empress Xiao Mu ( 孝穆皇后 )

When she, also in Emperor Xiaowen's absence, tried to force Emperor Xiaowen's sister Princess Pengcheng, whose husband Liu Chengxu ( 劉承緒, Liu Chang's son ) had died earlier, to marry her brother Feng Su ( 馮夙 ) the Duke of Beiping, Princess Pengcheng fled out of Luoyang and arrived at Emperor Xiaowen's camp, accusing Empress Feng of adultery.

* Empress Su Xiao ( 肅孝皇后 ), family name Hang ( 杭 ) ( died 1456 ), was the Jingtai Emperor's concubine before he ascended the throne, created empress following the deposition of Empress Xiao Yuan in 1452, mother of Zhu Jianji

( When it was completed in spring 595 and Emperor Wen visited the palace, he was initially very displeased with Yang Su, but Empress Dugu persuaded him that Yang Su knew that he had little other entertainment, and she awarded Yang Su much treasure to show appreciation.

* Annia Galeria Faustina Minor or Faustina the Younger ( between 125 – 130 – 175 ), a future Roman Empress, married her maternal cousin, future Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in 146.

February 1215: Yolanda de Courtenay ( c. 1200 – 1233 ), daughter of Peter I, Emperor of the Latin Empire and his second wife, Yolanda I, Empress of the Latin Empire

Soon afterwards he had the Empress Maria imprisoned and then killed ( forcing a signature from the child Emperor Alexius to put his mother to death ), by Pterygeonites and the hetaireiarches Constantine Tripsychos.

Guangxu Emperor and the reformists then launched a more comprehensive reform effort, the Hundred Day's Reform ( 1898 ), but it was shortly overturned by the conservatives under Empress Dowager Cixi in a military coup.

The other four, Empress Genshō, Empress Kōken ( also Empress Shōtoku ), Empress Meishō and Empress Go-Sakuramachi, were unwed daughters of previous emperors.

Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife ( empress consort ), mother ( empress dowager ), or a woman who rules in her own right ( empress regnant ).

One of the most famous Imperial coronation ceremonies was that of Napoleon, crowning himself Emperor in the presence of Pope Pius VII ( who had blessed the regalia ), at the Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The painting by Jacques-Louis David | David commemorating the event is equally famous: the gothic cathedral restyled Empire ( style ) | style Empire, supervised by the Letizia Ramolino | mother of the Emperor on the balcony ( a fictional addition, while she had not been present at the ceremony ), the pope positioned near the altar, Napoleon proceeds to crown his then wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais as Empress.

His Empress was Fujiwara no Otomuro ( 藤原乙牟漏 ) ( 760 – 790 ), daughter of Fujiwara no Yoshitsugu ( 藤原良継 )

* Princess Ishi-Hime ( or Iwa-hime ), daughter of Emperor Senka by his Empress Tachibana no Nakatsu ; Empress 540 ; Grand Empress 572 ; 3 imperial children:

** Imperial Princess Nukatabe ( Empress SUIKO ), born 553, died 626

*** Eldest son: Prince Chinu, born about 575, married to Princess Kibitsu-Hime, by whom he had a son and a daughter: Princess Takara ( Empress Kōgyoku ), born 594, and Prince Karu ( Emperor Kōtoku )

** Princess Uji no Shitsukahi ( Uji no Kahitako ), born about 570, married to Prince Shōtoku, son of Emperor Yōmei and Empress Anahobe

He had at least three consorts including his Empress, Hashihito no Himemiko ( Princess Hashihito ), the daughter of Emperor Jomei and his sister Empress Kōgyoku.

Empress: Princess Hashihito ( 間人皇女 ) (?– 665 ), daughter of Emperor Jomei

Empress Consort: Princess Tōchi ( 十市皇女 ) ( 648 ?– 678 ), a daughter of Emperor Temmu

Empress: Fujiwara no Mimimotoji ( 藤原耳面刀自 ), a daughter of Fujiwara no Kamatari

She was the first empress ( like Empress Wu in China ) consort of Japan who was not a daughter of the imperial family itself.

Empress Maria with her son, future Nicholas IIThe family of Alexander III being blessed by Jesus Christ in a portrait by Makarov. On the morning of 13 March 1881, Alexander II, aged sixty-two, was killed by a bomb on the way back to the Winter Palace from a military parade.

His legitimization of his children by Catherine, and rumors that he was about to crown his new wife Empress, ending the morganatic status of his second marriage, caused great tension with the entire extended Romanov family.

The Soga family eventually prevailed and supported Empress Suiko and Prince Shotoku, who helped impress Buddhist faith into Japan.

Queen Matilda gathered Stephen's remaining lieutenants around her and the royal family in the south-east, advancing into London when the population rejected the Empress.

* Naka no Ōe no Ōji changes his residence to Asuka with Empress Hashibito and other Imperial family members and ministers.

Traceable up to six generations, her father's paternal ancestry includes Sampsiceramus, a Syrian chieftain who founded the Royal family of Emesa ( modern Homs, Syria ) and Gaius Julius Bassianus, a high priest from Emesa and father of Roman Empress Julia Domna.

When Empress Dowager Deng died, Emperor An ( r. 106 – 125 CE ) was convinced by the accusations of the eunuchs Li Run ( 李閏 ) and Jiang Jing ( 江京 ) that Deng and her family had planned to depose him.

After An's death, his wife, Empress Dowager Yan ( d. 126 CE ) placed the child Marquess of Beixiang on the throne in an attempt to retain power within her family.

Basil was the son of Emperor Romanos II and Empress Theophano, whose maternal family was of Laconian Greek origin originating in the Peloponnesian region of Laconia, possibly from the city of Sparta.

The portraits of the imperial family show that Maria Theresa resembled Empress Elisabeth Christine and Archduchess Maria Anna.

Eager to retain their family links, to both each other and to Denmark, in 1907 Alexandra and her sister, the Dowager Empress of Russia, purchased a villa north of Copenhagen, Hvidøre, as a private getaway.

It is known that he was born into a notable family and that his uncle Tarasios had been the Patriarch of Constantinople from 784 – 806 under both Empress Irene ( r. 797 – 802 ) and Emperor Nikephoros I ( r. 802 – 811 ).

Petronius, who was a high-ranking imperial officer and a member of a family belonging to the senatorial aristocracy, married Empress Licinia Eudoxia, widow of Valentinian.

The Imperial family was made up of the Emperor and the Empress ( 皇后 ) as the primary consort and Mother of the Nation ( 國母 ).

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.

Author Alexandre Dumas, père possessed one-fourth black Haitian descent, and Empress Josephine Napoleon who was born and raised in the French West Indies from a plantation estate family.

Queen Matilda gathered Stephen's remaining lieutenants around her and the royal family in the south-east, advancing into London when the population rejected the Empress.

Japanese empresses such as Empress Genshō ( 680-748 ), who succeeded her mother the Empress Gemmei ( 661-721 ) on the throne ( but only because she was a Princess of the Imperial family, daughter of Prince Kusakabe ), remain the sole exceptions to this conventional argument.

Thirteen months later, a coup d ' état placed the Empress Elizabeth on the throne ( 6 December 1741 ), and Ivan and his family were imprisoned in the fortress of Dünamünde ( 13 December 1742 ) after a preliminary detention at Riga, whence the new Empress had at first decided to send them home to Brunswick.

Her last big family gathering took place at Zizers, in 1987, when her children and grandchildren joined in celebrating Empress Zita's 95th birthday.

** Chuuguu ( 中宮 ), or Kougou ( 皇后 ): Empress consort, formal spouse, highest rank, member of royal family

During the British occupation, Marie Josèph Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, the future Empress Joséphine was born to a noble family living on Les Trois-Îlets across the bay from Fort Royal.