Duoni

Doni (Manchu: ᡩᠣᠨᡳ, Möllendorff transliteration: doni; 1636–1661), of the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan. He was a grandson of Nurhaci, the founding emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and the second son of Yutong Prince Duo. His mother was his secondary consort, Borjigit.

Initially granted the title of Marquis. In the sixth year of the Shunzhi Emperor's reign (1649), following his father Duo's death, he inherited the title of Prince Yuzhong. In the eighth year of the Shunzhi reign (1651), he was promoted to be Prince Xin. In the ninth year of Shunzhi (1652), due to the Dorbo incident, he was demoted to be Marquis Xin. In the fifteenth year of Shunzhi (1658), he was appointed Grand General of An Yuan Jing Kou and led a southern expedition with the Pingjun Wang Luokeduo and others, as the Qing army advanced south from Hunan against the Ming.

After Ming general Li Dingguo burned the Iron Chain Bridge at Panyan Harbor and retreated, the Qing forces crossed the river using floating bridges, then moved through Jiaoshui and into Guizhou, heading toward Anzhuang, and subsequently along the route of the Ming general Bai Wenxuan. In the first month of the sixteenth year of Shunzhi (1659), Qing troops approached Hui City in Yunnan. Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan, carrying the Yongli Emperor, fled towards Yongchang. Doni sent Prince Shangshan to lead troops in pursuit, capturing Yongchang and Tengyue. Emperor Shizu dispatched envoys to commend the troops, rewarding them with imperial robes, robes with dragon motifs, saddles, bows, and arrows.

In May of the seventeenth year of Shunzhi (1660), the main army retreated; in June, the court investigated failures of the Yunnan Mopan Mountain armies and imposed a fine of 5,000 taels of silver. In the first month of the eighteenth year of Shunzhi (1661), he passed away, with the posthumous title "Xuanhe"; his son Eza inherited the title of Marquis Xin.

In the forty-third year of Qianlong (1778), Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty awarded Doni the highest military merits among the founding princes and reinstated his noble title as Prince Yuzhong. He ordered Doni’s great-grandson Xiuling to inherit the title of Prince Yuzhong again; Doni was also posthumously restored to Prince Yuzhong.