The consort kin (Chinese: 外戚; pinyin: wàiqì) were the kin or a group of people related to an empress dowager or a consort of a monarch or a warlord in...

progenitors of a certain kin, where the kin members meet and perform rites of unity and banquets. In Imperial times, a consort kin was a kin with special status...

dynasty which lasted from 9 to 23 AD, established by the Han dynasty consort kin Wang Mang, who usurped the throne of the Emperor Ping of Han and the...

dynasty official in China and consort kin who served under Emperors Wu and Zhao. His granddaughter later became the empress consort to Emperor Zhao. Shangguan...

the short-lived Chinese Xin dynasty. He was originally an official and consort kin of the Han dynasty and later seized the throne in 9 CE. The Han dynasty...

Từ Cung (1890–1980), mother of the last Vietnamese Emperor Bảo Đại. Consort kin Grand empress dowager Queen dowager and queen mother Valide sultan of...

members of the male line, but there were numerous cases whereby the consort kins came to possess de facto power at the expense of the monarchs. This concept...

campaigns against the Xiongnu, and his rags to riches life. He was a consort kin of Emperor Wu of Han as the younger half-brother of Emperor Wu's wife...

竇憲; Wade–Giles: Tou Hsien; died c.August 92) was a Chinese general and consort kin of the Eastern Han dynasty, famous for destroying the Xiongnu nomadic...

addition to Hongwu's aversion to eunuchs, he never consented to any of his consort kin becoming court officials. This policy was fairly well-maintained by later...