Empress Zhang (張皇后, personal name unknown) (died 349) was briefly an
empress
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of the
Chinese
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/
Jie state
Later Zhao
The Later Zhao (; 319–351) was a dynasty of the Sixteen Kingdoms in northern China. It was founded by the Shi family of the Jie ethnicity. The Jie were most likely a Yeniseian people and spoke next to Chinese one of the Yeniseian languages.Vov ...
.
She was
Shi Zun
Shi Zun (石遵) (died 349) was briefly (for 183 days) an emperor of the Jie-led Chinese Later Zhao dynasty. He was the second of four short-lived emperors after the death of his father Shi Hu (Emperor Wu). He is sometimes referred to by his tit ...
's wife and the last empress in Later Zhao history.
After Shi Zun, a son of the emperor
Shi Hu
Shi Hu (; 295–349), courtesy name Jilong (季龍), formally Emperor Wu of (Later) Zhao ((後)趙武帝), was an emperor of the Jie-led Chinese Later Zhao dynasty. He was the founding emperor Shi Le's distant nephew, who took power in a coup ...
, took over the throne in 349 after overthrowing his younger brother
Shi Shi, he made her empress. He reigned for only 183 days before he was overthrown in a coup by his brother
Shi Jian
Shi Jian (石鑒) (died 350) was briefly (for 103 days) an emperor of the Jie-led Later Zhao dynasty of China. He was the third of four short-lived Later Zhao emperors after the death of his father Shi Hu (Emperor Wu). He is sometimes referred t ...
and his adoptive nephew
Shi Min. Soon thereafter, both Empress Zhang and her husband were executed by Shi Min.
References
349 deaths
Later Zhao empresses
4th-century Chinese women
4th-century Chinese people
Executed royalty
Year of birth unknown
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