Consort Fu | |
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Grand empress dowager of China (ditaitaihou) | |
Tenure | 7 BC – 21 February 2 BC |
Predecessor | Empress Wang Zhengjun |
Successor | Empress Dowager Bian |
Died | 21 February 2 BC |
Spouse | Emperor Yuan of Han |
Issue | Liu 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.