The two empresses competed to bring educated women to their respective courts and encouraged rivalry among the women writers.
Whether her title was empress or princess is unclear, because historical sources differ on the subject.
His death left the court in a succession crisis, as, although he was childless, his empress was reportedly pregnant.
The countess was the sole companion traveling with the empress when she was assassinated.
Emperors, empresses, and high ranking princes all had ordos of their own, which they were free to manage in practically any way they chose.
Both the empress and the heir apparent received an income from the taxes of forty counties.
But the threats of the excited people, and a sudden accident in the imperial palace, frightened the empress.
Their empress consorts also received both a mitre and crown on their heads from a cardinal bishop at the same ceremony.
