Empress Dowager (太后)

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Dowager as a consort and ruler. This record brings together 3 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Empress Dowager	太后	Taihou
Title	Empress Dowager	太后	Taihou

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Title only
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · liaoshi:085:s0008

Roles

Consort
Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 統和初 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 983
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:085:s0100
Source Date: Text: 六年秋 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 988
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:085:s0008
Source Date: Text: 明日 · Western Year: AD 1004
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:085:s0021

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 85Volume 85 Biographies 15: Xiao Talin, Xiao Guanyinnu, Yelu Tizi, Yelu Xieli, Yelu Nugua, Xiao Liu, Gao Xun, Xi Heshuonu, Xiao Taliege, Yelu Sahe · 3 passages

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六年秋，改南院都監，從駕南征，攻沙堆，力戰被創，太后嘗親臨視。 That autumn of the sixth year he was appointed Chief Supervisor of the Southern Chancellery. On the southern campaign he attacked Shadui, fought hard, and was wounded; the Empress Dowager herself came to see him.

明日，彗車至，太后哭之慟，輟朝五日。 The next day his funeral carriage arrived at court. The Empress Dowager mourned him deeply and suspended audiences for five days.

統和初，皇太后稱制，以耶律休哥領南邊事，和朔奴為南面行軍副部署。 Early in Tonghe, under the Empress Dowager's regency, Yelu Xiuge took charge of the southern frontier while Heshuonu was made Deputy Commander of the Southern Field Army.