Tang dynasty
Zhu Wen, originally a salt smuggler who had served under the rebel Huang Chao, surrendered to Tang forces. By helping to defeat Huang, he was granted a series of rapid military promotions. In 907 the Tang dynasty was ended when Zhu Wen, now a military governor, deposed the last emperor of Tang, Emperor Ai of Tang, and took the throne for himself (known posthumously as Emperor Taizu of Later Liang). He established the Later Liang, which inaugurated the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. A year later Zhu Wen had the deposed Emperor Ai poisoned to death.
Trần Thị Dung
Trần Thị Dung's complicated biography was a fine example for the complex period of the Late Lý and Early Trần Dynasty in History of Vietnam. Reflecting her role in the Lý and Trần Dynasty, the historian Ngô Sĩ Liên wrote that Trần Thị Dung did had an active role in reinforcing the newly found reign of the Trần Dynasty, especially with the matter of Trần Thái Tông-Trần Liễu clash and during the war of resistance of the Trần Dynasty against the Mongol invasion. However, being the last empress and the last empress mother of the Lý Dynasty, she contributed nothing to the ruling of the Lý Dynasty and even married Trần Thủ Độ, who forced her first husband Lý Huệ Tông commit suicide, a decision that was criticized in several historical books.