Emperor Cheng of Han - Personal Information

Personal Information

  • Father
    • Emperor Yuan of Han
  • Mother
    • Empress Wang Zhengjun, aunt of Wang Mang
  • Wives
    • Empress Xu (deposed 18 BC, committed suicide 8 BC)
    • Empress Zhao Feiyan (forced to commit suicide 1 BC by Wang Mang)
  • Major Concubines
    • Consort Ban, poet, scholar and aunt of historian Ban Biao and grandaunt to his children -- historian Ban Gu, general Ban Chao, and female historian Ban Zhao
    • Consort Zhao Hede (committed suicide 7 BC, younger sister of Empress Zhao Feiyan)
    • Consort Li Ping, formerly Consort Ban's handmaiden
    • Consort Cao, alleged mother of one of his murdered sons, forced to commit suicide when her son was murdered
    • Consort Xu, alleged mother of one of his murdered sons and likely relative of Empress Xu
  • Children
    • 2 sons by consorts, allegedly murdered 11 BC by Consort Zhao Hede and possibly Emperor Cheng himself; however, decades later there were pretenders who claimed to be Emperor Cheng's sons

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