Empress Wang (Southern Ming)

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Letter from the Empress Dowager Helena Wang (the "honorary mother" of the Yongli Emperor) to the Pope with a request for help. November 1650. Latin translation by Michał Boym.

Empress Xiaogangkuang (died 1662) was a Chinese empress consort of the Southern Ming dynasty, empress to the Yongli Emperor. She converted to Roman Catholicism and adopted the name Anne.^[1]

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^ Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644-1911

Chinese royalty
Preceded by Empress Xiaoyixiang	Empress consort of the Southern Ming dynasty 1646–1662	None Southern Ming dynasty was ended in 1662
Preceded by Empress Xiaoyixiang	Empress consort of China 1646–1662	Succeeded by Empress Xiaochengren (Qing dynasty)

v t e Empresses of the Ming dynasty
Empresses consort
Ming	Empress Ma Empress Ma Empress Xu Empress Zhang Hu Shanxiang Empress Sun Empress Qian Empress Wang Empress Hang Empress Wu Empress Wang Empress Zhang Empress Xia Empress Chen Empress Zhang Empress Fang Empress Chen Wang Xijie Empress Zhang Empress Zhou
Southern Ming	Empress Zeng Empress Wang
Empresses dowager
Ming	Empress Dowager Zhang Empress Dowager Sun Empress Dowager Wu Empress Dowager Qian Empress Dowager Zhou Empress Dowager Wang Empress Dowager Zhang Empress Dowager Chen Empress Dowager Li
Southern Ming	Empress Dowager Wang Empress Dowager Ma
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Ming	Grand Empress Dowager Zhang Grand Empress Dowager Zhou Grand Empress Dowager Wang
Posthumous empresses
Ming	Empress Xiaoyizhuang Empress Dowager Wang Empress Xiaoyuanzhen Empress Dowager Xiaochun
Southern Ming	Noble Consort Zheng
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