Empress Fu (Ai)
Empress Fu, formally Empress Xiaoai, was an Empress during Han Dynasty. Her personal name is unknown, her husband was Emperor Ai of Han, but they had no children, their marriage was not consummated because he was homosexual. Empress Fu was the daughter of her husband’s grandmother Consort Fu’s cousin Fu Yan, she became his consort when he was still the Prince of Dingtao and crown prince. After the death of his uncle Emperor Cheng in 6 BC, he ascended the throne as Emperor Ai, she was created his empress that same year, her father was created the Marquess of Kongxiang. By the time Emperor Ai died in 1 BC, Empress Fu’s main support, Consort Fu, had been dead for two years and she was all alone as her father and her other relatives were purged from government by Wang Mang. Wang, who bore grudges against Fu and Ai, did not permit her to become Empress dowager, a brief time after Ai’s death, he had her demoted to commoner status and ordered her to guard her husband’s tomb—even though she was not involved in any of the political intrigue.
She committed suicide that day
Fu Shou was an empress of the Eastern Han dynasty of China. She was the first wife of the last Han emperor. Fu Shou's father was Fu Wan, a seventh generation descendant of the early Eastern Han official Fu Zhan and the hereditary Marquis of Buqi. Fu Wan's wife was Princess Yang'an, a daughter of Emperor Huan), but she was not Fu Shou's biological mother as Fu Shou's mother was named Ying. Fu Wan had a wife with the family name Fan, but it is not clear whether she was Ying; the Fu family descended from the prominent Confucian scholar Fu Sheng. In 190, as Emperor Xian was being forced by Dong Zhuo to move the capital west to Chang'an, Lady Fu became an imperial consort. In 195, while Emperor Xian was under the control of Dong Zhuo's subordinates Li Jue and Guo Si, he designated Fu Wan as his empress consort; as Emperor Xian continued his reign of being under the control of one warlord or another, he and Empress Fu were in a loving relationship, but both saw their power becoming minimal. In 195, during Emperor Xian's flight back to the old capital Luoyang, Empress Fu was carrying silk, which were seized by soldiers ostensibly protecting her – such that her own personal bodyguards were killed, their blood spilt on her.
When they returned to Luoyang, the imperial court was poorly supplied and while there is no record indicating that Empress Fu was under threat of starvation, a number of imperial officials died of hunger or were killed by robbers. Materially, the imperial court became much better supplied once the warlord Cao Cao arrived in 196 and took Emperor Xian and the imperial court under control. Cao Cao relocated the imperial capital to his headquarters in Xu County. Empress Fu was not happy about Cao Cao's domination over the imperial court and central government. In 200, Emperor Xian's concubine, Consort Dong, was forcibly executed by Cao Cao against the emperor's wishes after her father Dong Cheng was found guilty of masterminding a conspiracy to assassinate Cao Cao. After Consort Dong's death, Empress Fu became angry and fearful, so she wrote her father Fu Wan a letter accusing Cao Cao of cruelty and implicitly asking him to come up with a plan to eliminate Cao Cao. Fu Wan was fearful and did not act on the letter, but Empress Fu's letter was discovered in 214.
Cao Cao was so angry. When Emperor Xian was reluctant to do so, Cao Cao sent Hua Xin and close aides into the imperial palace to capture the empress. Empress Fu tried to hide behind a wall; as she was being taken away, she cried out to Emperor Xian to save her, but his only response was that he had no idea what would happen to him. She was incarcerated and killed along with her two sons and the rest of the Fu family, with her mother Ying exiled. Lists of people of the Three Kingdoms Chen, Shou. Records of the Three Kingdoms. Fan, Ye. Book of the Later Han. Pei, Songzhi. Annotations to Records of the Three Kingdoms