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empress dowager. Xiaosu pointed out that she was the mother of the emperor while Qian was childless, while Qian demanded the title pointing to her loyalty to the late emperor, whose house arrest she had shared. The emperor was unable to solve the conflict to the satisfaction of both parties, but granted the title of empress dowager to both, though Qian's formal title acknowledged her higher rank and precedence in court proceedings.
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Empress Qian had no children, and when the Zhengtong Emperor died in 1464, he was succeeded by the Chenghua Emperor. She became involved in a conflict with Empress Xiaosu, the biological mother of the new emperor. As the mother of the emperor, Empress Xiaosu demanded the same title as Qian: that of
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promptly raised. The ransom was rejected in favour of holding on to the Zhengtong Emperor as hostage, which prompted the court to assign him the status of
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specifically stated that she should only be buried next to him, 'after a thousand years of long life.'
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in 1452, he was sent to live with Empress Qian in conditions of physical hardship. In 1457, a
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There is no record of Empress Qian's birth name, other than that she was a member of the clan
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in a guarded section of the Imperial City. When her spouse's only son, the future
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Empress Dowager Qian died on 26 June 1468, and was interred at Yu ling in the
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emperor. Empress Qian was moved from the court to a separate palace to allow
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Empress Xiàozhuāng Xiànmù Hónghuì Xiǎnrén Gōngtiān Qīnshèng Ruì
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on 8 June 1442, and became his primary consort and empress.
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and his captors demanded a ransom, which Empress Qian and
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When her spouse was returned by the Mongols, arriving in
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In 1449, the Zhengtong Emperor was captured after the
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Carington, Goodrich L.; Fang, Chaoying, eds. (1976).
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on 19 September 1450, Empress Qian joined him under
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Empress Dowager Ciyi (慈懿皇太后; from 28 February 1464)
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Index

Empress Xiaozhuangrui
Chinese name
family name
Qian

Empress consort of the Ming dynasty
Empress Xiaogongzhang
Empress Wang
Empress Suxiao
Empress Wu
Lianyungang
Yuling Mausoleum
Emperor Yingzong
Regnal name
Posthumous name
Clan
simplified Chinese
traditional Chinese
pinyin
Ming dynasty
Zhengtong Emperor
Chinese
Zhengtong Emperor
Battle of Tumu
her mother-in-law
retired emperor
Zhu Qiyu
Empress Wang
Beijing
house arrest

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