Budashiri

Budashiri
Empress consort of the Yuan dynasty and Khatun of Mongols
Tenure16 October 1328 – 26 February 1329
PredecessorBabukhan
SuccessorBabusha
Tenure8 September 1329 – 2 September 1332
PredecessorBabusha
SuccessorDaliyetemishi
Empress Dowager of the Yuan dynasty
Tenure2 September 1332 — 19 July 1333
PredecessorEmpress Dowager Babukhan
SuccessorEmpress Dowager Lü (in Ming)
Grand Empress Dowager of the Yuan dynasty
Tenure19 July 1333 – c. 1340
PredecessorGrand Empress Dowager Dagi
SuccessorGrand Empress Dowager Zhang (in Ming)
Bornc. 1307
Diedc. 1340
SpouseJayaatu Khan Tugh Temür
IssueAratnadara
El Tegüs
Taipingna
HouseKhongirad
FatherDiwabala
MotherSengge Ragi of Lu

Budashiri or Buddhashiri (Mongolian: ᠪᠤᠳᠢᠰᠢᠷᠢ, Budashri, Sinicized as Putashali, 卜答失里) (born c. 1307 – died c. 1340) was Empress of China and Khatun of Mongols as the wife of Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür.[1] She acted as an interim regent and was the prominent figure of the Yuan dynasty between 1332 and 1339; she was interim regent after the death of her husband and the election of his successor in 1332-1333, and then regent during the minority of his successor in 1333-1339.

She came from the Khongirad clan.[2] Her father was Prince Consort Diwabala, Prince of Lu, and her mother was Princess Supreme Sengge Ragi of Lu.[3]

  1. ^ Denis Twitchett, Herbert Franke, John K. Fairbank. The Cambridge History of China.
  2. ^ Heads of State of Mongolia
  3. ^ Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles. Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume II: Tang Through Ming 618-1644