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When Taizong died in 649, his youngest son, Li Zhi, whose mother was the main wife Wende, succeeded him as Emperor Gaozong. Li Zhi had had an affair with Wu when Taizong was still alive. [21] Taizong had 14 sons, including three by his beloved Empress Zhangsun (601–636), but none with Consort Wu. [22]
Emperor Gaozong of Tang (21 July 628 [1] – 27 December 683 [2]), personal name Li Zhi, was the third emperor of the Chinese Tang dynasty, ruling from 649 to 683; [5] after January 665, he handed power over the empire to his second wife Empress Wu (the future Wu Zetian), and her decrees were carried out with greater force than the decrees of ...
Li Zhi was frequently displeased with his wife Empress Wang for being too controlling and jealous of his favorite concubine, Consort Xiao. Yet, he could not forget the affair he had with Wu Meiniang. Empress Wang decided to bring back Wu Meiniang to make Consort Xiao jealous and recover Li Zhi's love with her but failed, and Wu Meiniang was ...
Later, during the Shenlong era (705-707) of Wu Zetian's son Emperor Zhongzong, Li Rizhi served as Jishizhong (給事中), an imperial attendant.At that time, his mother was old and ill, and Li personally attended to her and was so worried that his hair turned white.
1st Daughter: Princess Si of Anding (born and died 654), traditionally supposed to be murdered by Emperor Gaozong's first wife Empress Wang, also traditionally believed to be murdered by her own mother Wu Zetian. 2nd Son: Li Xián (李賢) (note different tone than his brother) (655-684), name changed to Li De (李德) 672, changed back to Li ...
After Consort Xiao's death, Li Sujie drew Empress Wu's suspicions because he was born of Consort Xiao. In 657, with the beginning of the elimination of the main political rivals by Empress Wu, Li Sujie's title was changed to the lesser title of Prince of Xun, and around the same time, he was demoted from Qian Prefecture to the less important Shen Prefecture (申州, roughly modern Xinyang, Henan).
Consort Xiao, Pure Consort Xiao or Xiao Shufei (蕭淑妃, personal name unknown) (died c.November 655), [1] was a concubine of Emperor Gaozong of Tang (Li Zhi). She was initially favored by him and bore him a son and two daughters—Li Sujie and the Princesses Yiyang and Gao'an—but later, after her romantic rival Empress Wang introduced another concubine, Consort Wu (later known as Wu ...
Li Yifu was born in 614, during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui, and his clan was originally from what would become Ying Prefecture (瀛州, part of modern Cangzhou, Hebei), but as his grandfather served as the secretary to the county magistrate of Shehong County (射洪, in modern Suining, Sichuan), his family stayed in the area thereafter.