father death_date mother spouse article_title name
liu zizhang 25 lady he consort zhao consort han gengshi emperor of han
 liu xuan
gengshi emperor of han

the gengshi emperor -lrb- ; died ad 25 -rrb- , was an emperor of the han dynasty restored after the fall of wang mang 's xin dynasty .
he was also known by his courtesy name shenggong -lrb- -rrb- and as the king or prince of huaiyang -lrb- -rrb- , a posthumous title bestowed upon him by emperor guangwu of the eastern han .
the gengshi emperor was viewed as a weak and incompetent ruler , who briefly ruled over an empire willing to let him rule over them , but was unable to keep that empire together .
he was eventually deposed by the chimei and strangled a few months after his defeat .
traditional historians treat his emperor status ambiguously -- and sometimes he would be referred to as an emperor -lrb- with reference to his era name -- thus , the gengshi emperor -rrb- and sometimes he would be referred to by his posthumous title , prince of huaiyang .
the later title implied that he was only a pretender and the eastern han was the legitimate restoration of the earlier han .
