Liang Lanbi (梁蘭璧) was an

empress An emperor (from la, imperator, via fro, empereor) is a monarch, and usually the sovereignty, sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), ...

during the

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. Her husband was the ill-fated Emperor Huai. Very little is known about her, and she was not even listed in the biographies of the empresses in the ''

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'', the official history of the dynasty.See ''

'', vols. 31, 32. She had married Emperor Huai long before he became emperor (although the date is not known), and when he was

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, she carried the title of crown princess. When he became emperor in 307, she was created empress. Nothing further is known about her, including her fate when both she and her husband were captured by

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forces in 311. However, it appeared that at least by later that year, when the Han Zhao emperor Liu Cong created him the Duke of Kuaiji, she had either died or had been taken elsewhere, for Liu Cong gave a concubine of his, Consort Liu, to be the former Jin emperor's duchess.

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scholar

Xue Fucheng Xue Fucheng or Hsieh Fucheng (12 April 1838 – 21 July 1894) was a Chinese diplomat of the Qing dynasty in the late 19th century. Born in Wuxi, Jiangsu to a literati family. Late Qing dynasty writer/essayist, diplomat to England, France, Be ...

said Empress Liang committed suicide in defence of her virtue.

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