Empresses

His new six-year term, if completed, would make him Russia’s longest-serving leader for more than 200 years when tsars and empresses ruled the country.

That choice to focus on empresses, queens and princesses isn’t by accident.

Although empresses had been anointed before, this is the first definitely known anointing of a Carolingian queen.

As time went on though, the program was later improved by other emperors and empresses, such as Catherine the Great.

Empresses gave birth in the Purple Chamber, and the emperors born there were known as "born to the purple," to separate them from emperors who won or seized the title through political intrigue or military force.

Fujiwara daughters were thus the usual empresses and mothers of Emperors.

Fujiwara women were often Empresses, and concubines came from less exalted noble families.

Go-Suzaku had five Empresses and seven Imperial children.

Gukanshō, p. 304. Though Ichijō already had an empress, a daughter of Michitaka, he claimed there were two types of empresshood and therefore it was legal for an emperor to have two empresses at the same time.

His mother was Empress Dowager Fujiwara no Ishi (藤原苡子) Toba had three Empresses, some consort ladies and 14 imperial sons and daughters.

Imperial Russia produced four reigning Empresses, all in the eighteenth century.

Over half of Japanese empresses and many Emperors abdicated once a suitable male descendant was considered to be old enough to rule (just past toddlerhood, in some cases).

Rules for indicating successors also varied: there was a tendency towards male inheritance of the supreme office, but as well election by noblemen, as ruling empresses (for empires not too strictly under salic law ) are known.

The Three Empresses: Catherine I, Anna and Elizabeth of Russia.

This can be seen from the fact that he was father to four (non-reigning) empresses, uncle to two emperors and grandfather to another three.

This family produced many empresses and consorts throughout history.

Through Prince Kusakabe, Tenmu had two emperors and two empresses among his descendents.

Thus it was significant which quarters had preferential opportunities in providing chief wives to imperial princes, i.e. supplying future empresses.

To see a list of these emperors, see Category of fictional emperors and empresses.

Varley, p. 151; Brown, p. 279. Heizei had three Empresses and seven sons and daughters.