Empress Gi

Empress Gi
Empress consort of the Yuan dynasty
Primary Empress of Yuan
Tenure1365-10 September 1368
Empress of Northern Yuan
Tenure1368–1369
Secondary Empress of Yuan
Tenure1340–1365
Born1315
Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, Goryeo
Died1369 (aged 53–54)
SpouseToghon Temür
IssueBiligtü Khan
Posthumous name
Empress Puxian Shusheng (普顯淑聖皇后)
HouseHaengju Ki clan
FatherKi Cha-o
MotherLady Yi of the Iksan Yi clan
ReligionMahayana

Empress Gi or Empress Ki (Korean기황후; Hanja奇皇后; 1315–1369(?)), also known as Empress Qi (Chinese: 奇皇后) or Öljei Khutuk (Mongolian: Өлзийхутаг; Chinese: 完者忽都), was a Goryeo-born empress consort of the Yuan dynasty. She was one of the primary empresses of Toghon Temür (Emperor Huizong), and the mother of Biligtü Khan (Emperor Zhaozong), who would become an emperor of the Northern Yuan dynasty. Gi was originally from an aristocratic family of the Goryeo dynasty, and first served as a concubine of Toghon Temür. During the last years of the Yuan dynasty, she became one of its most powerful women and political figures, controlling the country economically and politically, and ruling with de facto imperial powers.