Empress Gi
| Empress Gi | |||||
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| Empress consort of the Yuan dynasty | |||||
Portrait by Zhou Lang, circa 1350 | |||||
| Empress consort of the Yuan dynasty | |||||
| Tenure | 1365–10 September 1368 | ||||
| Empress consort of Northern Yuan | |||||
| Tenure | October 1368–1369 | ||||
| Born | 1315 Goyang, Kingdom of Goryeo | ||||
| Died | 1369 (aged 53–54) Yingchang, Northern Yuan | ||||
| Spouse | Toghon Temür | ||||
| Issue | Biligtü Khan | ||||
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| House | Haengju Ki clan | ||||
| Father | Ki Cha-o | ||||
| Mother | Lady Yi of the Iksan Yi clan | ||||
| Religion | Mahayana Buddhism | ||||
Empress Gi or Empress Ki (Korean: 기황후; Hanja: 奇皇后; 1315–1369), also known as Empress Qi (Chinese: 奇皇后) or Öljei Khutuk (Mongolian: Өлзийхутаг; Chinese: 完者忽都), was a Goryeo-born empress consort of the Yuan dynasty. She was one of the primary empresses of Toghon Temür (Emperor Huizong), and the mother of Biligtü Khan (Emperor Zhaozong), who would become an emperor of the Northern Yuan dynasty. Gi was originally from an aristocratic family of the Goryeo dynasty, and first served as a concubine of Toghon Temür. During the last years of the Yuan dynasty, she became one of its most powerful women and political figures, controlling the country economically and politically, and ruling with de facto imperial powers.