* Empress Jia Nanfeng frames Crown Prince Yu for treason and has him deposed.

** Sima Wei ( 司馬瑋 ) ( b. 271 ), initially created the Prince of, later Prince Yin of Chu ( created c. 289, executed by Empress Jia Nanfeng 291 )

Other people of note included Emperor Hui of Jin ( 晉惠帝 ), Co-regent Yang Jun ( 楊駿 ), Empress Dowager Yang ( 楊皇太后 ), the Empress Jia Nanfeng ( 賈南風 ), and the senior minister Wei Guan ( 衛瓘 ).

The emperor's wife, Empress Jia Nanfeng, who was not happy with being excluded from this state of affairs, enlisted the help of Sima Wei and Sima Liang.

In 291, Empress Jia issued an edict accusing Yang Jun of treason.

However, Empress Jia remained unsatisfied with her lot.

Immediately following the killing of Sima Liang, Sima Wei was advised to expand his power at the expense of Empress Jia.

Two days after Sima Liang's death, Empress Jia spread a rumor around Sima Wei's camp accusing him of forging the imperial edict that killed Sima Liang.

The heir to the Jin Dynasty, Sima Yu, was the son of Emperor Hui and Consort Xie, and as such posed a political threat to Empress Jia.

In 299, Empress Jia convinced a drunk Sima Yu to copy a text that said, amongst other things, that Emperor Hui should abdicate in favor of Sima Yu.

Empress Jia then presented the copied text to Emperor Hui, who after discussion decided to execute his son.

Empress Jia desired the punishment to be carried out immediately ; but Emperor Hui decided instead to merely depose Sima Yu and keep him under house arrest for the time being.

Unbeknownst to Empress Jia, however, Sima Lun was actually plotting to overthrow Empress Jia.

Sima Lun thus decided to have Empress Jia kill Sima Yu first before acting, and thus encouraged Empress Jia to kill Sima Yu ( Sima Lun's great grand-nephew ).

All went according to plan and Empress Jia murdered Sima Yu.

Then Sima Lun, producing an edict allegedly from Emperor Hui, arrested Empress Jia and put her under house arrest, and later forced to commit suicide in 300.

Emperor Hui was a developmentally disabled ruler, and throughout his reign, there was constant internecine fighting between regents, imperial princes ( his uncles and cousins ), and his wife Empress Jia Nanfeng for the right to control him ( and therefore the imperial administration ), causing great suffering for the people and greatly undermining the stability of the Jin regime, eventually leading to Wu Hu rebellions that led to Jin's loss of northern and central China and the establishment of the competing Sixteen Kingdoms.

* 1056 – After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.

Andronikos II also attempted to marry off his son and co-emperor Michael IX Palaiologos to the Latin Empress Catherine I of Courtenay, thus seeking to eliminate Western agitation for a restoration of the Latin Empire.

For example, Saturninus ' " How well the tribune speaks to calm my thoughts " ( 1. 1. 46 ); Tamora's vow to slaughter the Andronici at 1. 1. 450 – 455 ( thus absolving Saturninus from any involvement ); Aaron's soliloquy in 2. 1 ; Aaron's " Ay, and as good as Saturninus may " ( 2. 1. 91 ); Aaron's soliloquy in 2. 3 ; Tamora's " Now will I hence to seek my lovely Moor ,/ And let my spleenful sons this trull deflower " ( 2. 3. 190 – 191 ); Aaron's two asides in 3. 1 ( ll. 187 – 190 and 201 – 202 ); Lucius ' " Now will I to the Goths and raise a power ,/ To be revenged on Rome and Saturnine " ( 3. 1. 298 – 299 ); Marcus ' " O, heavens, can you hear a good man groan " speech ( 4. 1. 122 – 129 ); Young Lucius ' asides in 4. 2 ( ll. 6 and 8 – 9 ); Aaron's " Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies ,/ There to dispose this treasure in mine arms ,/ And secretly to greet the Empress ' friends " ( 4. 2. 172 – 174 ); and Tamora's " Now will I to that old Andronicus ,/ And temper him with all the art I have ,/ To pluck proud Lucius from the warlike Goths " ( 4. 4. 107 – 109 ).

Joséphine de Beauharnais (; née Tascher de la Pagerie ; 23 June 1763 – 29 May 1814 ) was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and thus the first Empress of the French.

Marie Louise was a great granddaughter of Empress Maria Theresa through her father, and thus a great niece of Marie Antoinette.

Other accounts contend that there is no evidence of this from Silla, and the king who supposedly surrendered dates to the 5th century, thus making Empress Jingu 200 years old.

* Prince Gares the Black Knight, a character from the video game Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen, son of the Empress Endora and a primary antagonist in the game, is a black knight capable of magically animating numerous " copies " of his signature black armor to attack the player throughout the game, thus making him appear immortal.

She was born as the eighth child and sixth daughter of Paul I of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna ( born Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg ), and thus was Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia.

His empress consort was Taira no Tokuko ( later Empress Dowager Kenrei ), the daughter of Taira no Kiyomori, and thus his first cousin ( as his mother and Tokuko's mothers were sisters ).

However, in 5 BC, after Empress Dowager Fu was more successful in her quest for titles — Emperor Ai removed the qualification " of Dingtao " from his father's posthumous title ( thus making him simply " Emperor Gong "), and then gave his grandmother a variation of the grand empress dowager title ( ditaitaihou ( 帝太太后 ), compared to Grand Empress Dowager Wang's title taihuangtaihou ( 太皇太后 )) and his mother a variation of the empress dowager title ( ditaihou ( 帝太后 ), compared to Empress Dowager Zhao's title huangtaihou ( 皇太后 )) -- the prime minister Zhu Bo ( 朱博 ) and vice prime minister Zhao Xuan ( 趙玄 ), at her behest, submitted a petition to have Wang demoted to commoner status for having opposed Grand Empress Fu previously.

In the official announcement of the divorce, it was stated that “ the Persian climate had endangered the health of Empress Fawzia, and that thus it was agreed that the Egyptian King ’ s sister be divorced .” In another official statement, the Shah said that the dissolution of the marriage “ cannot affect by any means the existing friendly relations between Egypt and Iran .”

He hypothesized that a king from Kumaso sent emissaries who masqueraded as Jingū's officials to the Wei court, thus mistaking the Empress for Himiko.

Emperor Ai removed the qualification " of Dingtao " from his father's posthumous title ( thus making him simply " Emperor Gong "), and then gave his grandmother a variation of the grand empress dowager title ( ditaitaihou ( 帝太太后 ), compared to Grand Empress Dowager Wang's title taihuangtaihou ( 太皇太后 )) and his mother a variation of the empress dowager title ( ditaihou ( 帝太后 ), compared to Empress Dowager Zhao's title huangtaihou ( 皇太后 )), and there were therefore now four official empresses dowager in the capital, each with a full budget.

He was introduced to the Empress Maria Theresa in 1754, and after a short time residing with deposed Polish king Stanisław Leszczyński, he exhibited himself around Europe, thus becoming a wealthy man.

As of October 2009, CS versions of 3rd Style through Empress have been released ( note that 3rd CS contains songs from 1st through 3rd AC ; thus, there are no 1st style, 2nd style, or Substream CS titles ).

The relations between the Emperor and Empress were very good, as evidenced by Emperor Taishō ’ s lack of interest in taking concubines, thus breaking with hundreds of years of imperial tradition, and by her giving birth to four sons.

On the day that Agrippina married her uncle Claudius as her third husband / his fourth wife, she became an Empress and the most powerful woman in the Roman Empire.

Empress Suiko was a consort to her half-brother, Emperor Bidatsu, but after Bidatsu's first wife died she became his official consort and was given the title Ōkisaki ( official consort of the emperor ).

She became the wife and Empress consort of her uncle Emperor Jomei.

Genshō was an elder sister of Emperor Mommu and daughter of Prince Kusakabe and his wife who later became Empress Gemmei.

It was confiscated from Kharak Singh in 1850 by the British East India Company and became part of the British Crown Jewels when Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India in 1877.

In 1018, his daughter Ishi became Empress ( Chūgū ) of Emperor Go-Ichijō, Kenshi became Empress Dowager ( Kōtaigō ), and Shōshi was Grand Empress Dowager ( Tai-Kōtaigō ).

Although greeted by the clergy and people with joy, and despite the satisfaction of being attended by the Emperor in St. Peter's, and of placing the crown upon the head of the Empress, it soon became clear that by changing the seat of his government he had not increased its power.

Placidia was the only child who survived to adulthood and later became an Empress.

Empress Agnes, German Queen who became regent of the Holy Roman Empire

* Empress Yuan Leshang, an empress of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in China, later became a Buddhist nun who lived as a recluse, dying at an unknown date ( yet was still alive during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang, which ended in 649 )

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.

With Otto III was still a child and his regent, his mother the Empress Theophanu, absent from Italy, Crescentius II took the title of Patricius Romanorum ( Patrician of the Romans ) and became the effective ruler of the city, though he did not act entirely independent of the imperial authority, presenting himself as a lieutenant of the Emperor.

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

When Peter elevated the Russian Tsardom to Empire, Catherine became Empress ( Imperatrica ).

Elizabeth had vowed that if she became Empress that she would not sign a single death sentence, an unusual promise that she — notably — kept to throughout her life.

When his aunt, Anna's younger sister Elizabeth, became Empress of Russia she brought Peter from Germany to Russia and proclaimed him her heir presumptive in the autumn of 1742.

* Theophanu, Greek princess who became Empress ( d. 991 )

Another of Eugène's daughters, Amélie de Beauharnais von Leuchtenberg, married Emperor Pedro I of Brazil ( also former king Pedro IV of Portugal ) in Rio de Janeiro, and became Empress of Brazil, and they had one surviving daughter.

# Princess Amélie Auguste Eugénie Napoléone de Beauharnais, ( 31 July 1812 – 26 January 1873 ) was the second wife of Peter I of Brazil ( father of Mary II of Portugal ) and became Empress of Brazil