Consort Fu (Yuan)

Consort Fu
Grand empress dowager of China
(ditaitaihou)
Tenure7 BC – 21 February 2 BC
PredecessorEmpress Wang Zhengjun
SuccessorEmpress Dowager Bian
Died21 February 2 BC
SpouseEmperor Yuan of Han
IssueLiu Kang, Prince Gong of Dingtao
Princess Pingdu

Consort Fu (傅昭儀, personal name unknown) (died 21 February 2 BC[1]) was an imperial consort during the Han dynasty of China. She was a consort and a favourite of Emperor Yuan. She was known to be a domineering woman who wanted her son on the throne, and, failing that, wanted (and eventually was able to see) her grandson on the throne as Emperor Ai. During Emperor Ai's reign, she exerted heavy and frequent influence on his reign, that made her powerful and dominant and forcibly extracted grand empress dowager titles that she should not have properly possessed (since she was never an empress or empress dowager – and Emperor Cheng's wife, Grand Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun was still alive) – which would bring her hatred from the Wang clan and eventually the desecration of her tomb after her death.

  1. ^ dingsi day of the 1st month of the 1st year of the Yuan'shou era, per vol.35 of Zizhi Tongjian