* Empress Yang, wife of Lü Zuan

This decision was reversed in 186 BCE by his widow Grand Empress Dowager Lü Zhi ( d. 180 BCE ), who abolished private minting.

** Empress Dowager Lü, de facto ruler of the Chinese Han dynasty and wife of Emperor Gao

In fact, the vast majority of female rulers throughout Chinese Imperial history came to power by ruling as regents on behalf of their sons ; prominent examples include the Empress Lü of the Han Dynasty, as well as Empress Dowager Cixi and Empress Dowager Ci ' an of the Qing Dynasty, who for a time ruled jointly as co-regents.

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.

* Emperor Wen of the Han dynasty ascends to the Chinese throne after quelling the clans of Empress Dowager Lü.

* Empress Dowager Lü, de facto ruler of the Chinese Han dynasty and wife of Emperor Gao

In 192 BC, Modun even asked for the hand of Emperor Gao's widow Empress Lü Zhi.

He tried several times, fruitlessly, to replace Liu Ying with Liu Ruyi, as his desire was objected to by Liu Ying's mother Empress Lü Zhi.

Nevertheless Empress Dowager Lü had an assassin force venom down Liu Ruyi's throat .... She then had Concubine Qi's limbs chopped off, blinded her by gouging out her eyes, cut off her tongue and locked her in the latrine, and called her a " Human Swine " ( 人彘 ).

Lü Zhi ( 241 BC-180 BC ), style name E ' xu (), commonly known as Empress Lü () and Empress Dowager Lü (), or formally Empress Gao of Han (), was the empress consort of Emperor Gaozu ( or Emperor Gao ), the founder and first ruler of the Han Dynasty.

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.

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

Queen Victoria, initially worried that Helena might turn out to be a stereotypically-remote German Princess, remarked in a letter to her eldest daughter Vicky ( German Empress, Queen of Prussia and Princess Royal ) that she was pleased Helena liked ' to go among the people.

Frederick was reportedly violent towards his wife, and during a visit to Saint Petersburg in December 1786, Augusta asked for protection from Empress Catherine.

Following an ancient custom, the Empress had asked that her heart, which was placed in an urn, stay behind at the monastery of Muri, in Switzerland, where the Emperor's heart had rested for decades.

Once, when asked by Empress Wu, he finally agreed to leave his hermitage.

Wang Feng was greatly touched, and before his death, he asked Empress Dowager Wang and Emperor Cheng to take good care of Wang Mang.

After the Empress asked to meet his children with Catherine, the Tsar brought their two older children, George and Olga, to the Empress's bedside and she kissed and blessed both children.

As part of the articles of impeachment, the officials asked that Empress Dowager Shangguan exile Prince He somewhere remote.

The next day, after pleas from his uncle Sima Fu, Sima Zhao asked Empress Dowager Guo to grant Cao Mao the posthumous title of a duke, and arrange a funeral for Cao, with the ceremonies befitting that of a prince.

Before Empress Yang died in 274, she was concerned that whoever the new empress would be would have ambitions to replace the crown prince, and therefore asked Emperor Wu to marry her cousin Yang Zhi.

The first protagonist is a young warrior, who is asked by the Steward of The Empress of Fantastica, to set off and find a way to stop The Nothing.

Trying to please the heir, the ministers asked for an audience with Empress Taitu and suggested that she take the Emperor to Ankober as a change of scene that might be beneficial for his health.

Learning that Poinsett was from South Carolina, the Empress asked him if he would inspect the cotton factories under her patronage.

When asked by Empress Eugénie in what style the building was to be done, he is said to have replied: " Why Ma ' am, in Napoleon Trois, and you complain!

Empress Elizabeth, however, found her mother's residence outdated and incommodious and in May 1752 asked her court architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli to demolish the old structure and replace it with a much grander edifice in a flamboyant Rococo style.

After the death of the Empress Poppaea Sabina, Nero's second wife, Nero asked Antonia to marry him.

" Empress Xiao, surprised and distressed by his comment, asked him why he was saying so, and he responded and smiled, " Honor and wealth and poverty and dishonor, as well as pain and pleasure, all come in cycles.

He also asked for letters of recommendation from Prince Orlov in Saint Petersburg, where the prince obtained an audience for him with the Empress Catherine II.

In The Will of the Empress one of his foster-sisters asked him if and who was the girl he cared for more than other girls to bring to their breakfast, and Briar answers, Evvy.

Empress Ariadne asked to Anastasius, whom she had married after Zeno's death, to appoint Procopius praetorian prefect ; Anastasius refused, saying that the office required more learning that Procopius had.

Marie Antoinette also asked Bertin to dress up dolls in the latest fashions as gifts for her sisters and her mother, the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria.

Empress Xu asked her sister to ask Chunyu to intercede on her behalf, and she gave Chunyu many gifts.

In an official document that Gannibal submitted in 1742 to Empress Elizabeth, while petitioning for the rank of nobility and a coat of arms, he asked for the right to use a family crest emblazoned with an elephant and the mysterious word " FVMMO " ( means homeland in Kotoko ).