Emperador Suzong de Tang
Separado de Xuanzong durante la huida de Chang'an, fue al norte a Lingwu y dejó que las tropas allí lo proclamaran emperador — su padre fue informado después. Recuperó ambas capitales dentro de un año, al precio de aliados Uyghur a quienes se les prometió el saqueo de Luoyang, y murió en 762 durante un golpe en su propio palacio.
唐肅宗
简体 唐肃宗
“Declared emperor by an army, not by his father”
Separated from Xuanzong during the flight from Chang'an, he went north to Lingwu and let the troops there proclaim him emperor — his father was informed afterwards. He retook both capitals within a year, at the price of Uyghur allies who were promised the plunder of Luoyang, and died in 762 during a coup in his own palace.
The recovery was real and the cost set the shape of the late Tang: to end the rebellion the court accepted the surrender of rebel generals and left them in place as military governors of the northeast, which is how the provinces became autonomous without ever formally rebelling again.
Empress Zhang had been with him at Lingwu and became the dominant figure of the court. In 762, with the emperor dying, she moved against the eunuch Li Fuguo and lost; she was seized in the palace and killed, and Suzong died within days — thirteen days after his father.
The empress of this reign
Painted on silk in gemstone mineral pigments by Xiang Li.
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Written for this site to place Suzong's reign around the paintings. For the full biography, the dynastic histories and the scholarship behind them, start at Wikipedia.
Every Tang emperor
| Reign | Emperor | Painted empresses |
|---|---|---|
| 618 – 626 | Gaozu 唐高祖 Li Yuan 李淵 / 李渊 | |
| 626 – 649 | Taizong 唐太宗 Li Shimin 李世民 | |
| 649 – 683 | Gaozong 唐高宗 Li Zhi 李治 | |
| 690 – 705 | Wu Zetian 武則天 / 武则天 Wu Zhao 武曌 | |
| 684, and 705 – 710 | Zhongzong 唐中宗 Li Xian 李顯 / 李显 | |
| 684 – 690, and 710 – 712 | Ruizong 唐睿宗 Li Dan 李旦 | |
| 712 – 756 | Xuanzong (Li Longji) 唐玄宗 Li Longji 李隆基 | |
| 756 – 762 | Suzong 唐肅宗 / 唐肃宗 Li Heng 李亨 | |
| 762 – 779 | Daizong 唐代宗 Li Yu 李豫 | |
| 779 – 805 | Dezong 唐德宗 Li Kuo 李适 | |
| 805, for 186 days | Shunzong 唐順宗 / 唐顺宗 Li Song 李誦 / 李诵 | |
| 805 – 820 | Xianzong 唐憲宗 / 唐宪宗 Li Chun 李純 / 李纯 | |
| 820 – 824 | Muzong 唐穆宗 Li Heng 李恆 / 李恒 | |
| 824 – 826 | Jingzong 唐敬宗 Li Zhan 李湛 | |
| 826 – 840 | Wenzong 唐文宗 Li Ang 李昂 | |
| 840 – 846 | Wuzong 唐武宗 Li Yan 李炎 | |
| 846 – 859 | Xuanzong (Li Chen) 唐宣宗 Li Chen 李忱 | |
| 859 – 873 | Yizong 唐懿宗 Li Cui 李漼 | |
| 873 – 888 | Xizong 唐僖宗 Li Xuan 李儇 | — |
| 888 – 904 | Zhaozong 唐昭宗 Li Ye 李曄 / 李晔 | |
| 904 – 907 | Ai (Aidi) 唐哀帝 Li Zhu 李柷 | — |