Empress Danashiri (died 1335) was an Empress consort of the
Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty (), officially the Great Yuan (; xng, , , literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its division. It was established by Kublai, the fift ...
, married to
Toghon Temür
Toghon Temür ( mn, Тогоонтөмөр; Mongolian script: ; ; 25 May 1320 – 23 May 1370), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Huizong of Yuan () bestowed by the Northern Yuan dynasty and by his posthumous ...
.
She was the daughter of
El Temür
El Temür (; Mongolian:; died 1333) was an ethnic Kipchak official of the Yuan dynasty. He was behind the coup d'état that installed Tugh Temür (Emperor Wenzong) as Yuan emperor in the capital Khanbaliq in 1328. The restorationists at Khanbaliq ...
, the prime minister during the first years of her husband's name. She had one son, Maha, but he died because of
Measles when he was still an infant. She came to be in conflict with the emperor for his infatuation with his concubine,
Lady Ki, whom she often ordered to be beaten.
Danashiri was implicated in the failed rebellion of her brother, whom she attempted to protect from being executed. She was exiled to
Hefei[Ч.Содбилэг. «Монголын Их Юань улсын түүх». 262-р тал. Улаанбаатар. 2010 он.] for trying to defend her brother and later poisoned.
In popular culture
* Portrayed by
Baek Jin-hee in 2013 television series ''
Empress Ki''.
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Year of birth missing
1335 deaths
14th-century women
Yuan dynasty empresses
14th-century executions