father predecessor successor succession death_date house title birth_date article_title name reign
Šurhaci -lrb- '' none '' -rrb- dorgon -lrb- as regent -rrb- regent of the qing dynasty 11 june 1655 -lrb- aged 55-56 -rrb- house of aisin-gioro prince zheng of the first rank -lrb- 和碩鄭親王 -rrb- 1599 jirgalang
 jirgalang 1636-1655 -rrb- 1643 - 1647 -lrb- as regent -rrb- -lrb- as prince zheng of the first rank
jirgalang

jirgalang or jirhalang -lrb- manchu : 1599 - june 11 , 1655 -rrb- was a manchu noble , regent , and political and military leader of the early qing dynasty .
born of the manchu aisin gioro clan , he was the sixth son of Šurhaci , a younger brother of qing founder nurhaci .
from 1638 to 1643 , he took part in many military campaigns that helped bring down the fall of the ming dynasty .
after the death of hong taiji -lrb- nurhaci 's successor -rrb- in september 1643 , jirgalang became one of the young shunzhi emperor 's two co-regents , but he soon yielded most political power to co-regent dorgon in october 1644 .
dorgon eventually purged him of his regent title in 1647 .
after dorgon died in 1650 , jirgalang led an effort to clean the government of dorgon 's supporters .
jirgalang was one of ten `` princes of the first rank '' -lrb- 和碩親王 -rrb- whose descendants were made `` iron-cap princes '' -lrb- 鐵帽子王 -rrb- , who had the right to transmit their princely titles to their direct male descendants perpetually .
