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Overview The translated histories identify Empress Dowager as a royal family member and ruler. This record brings together 12 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
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Empress Dowager
太后
Taihou
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Empress Dowager
太后
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Your Majesty
太后
Identity
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Sex Female Life and dates Attested activity Events and relationships Kind: legal ·
Role: authority ·
Action: killed Liuge's father ·
Other Person Id: Yindishi (寅底石) References in the histories Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.
History of Liao, Chapter 113 Volume 113 Biographies 43: Rebellious Officials 2 · 12 passages
是年秋，世宗與皇太后相拒於潢河橫渡，和議未定。
That autumn Shizong and the empress dowager faced each other at Huanghe Hengdu, and no settlement had yet been reached.
太后問翰曰：「汝何怨而叛？」
The empress dowager asked Han, "What grievance drove you to rebel?"
對曰：「臣母無罪，太后殺之，以此不能無憾。」
He answered, "My mother was innocent, yet Your Majesty put her to death—for that I cannot be without bitterness."
初耶律屋質以附太后被囚，翰聞而快之，即囚所謂曰：「汝嘗言我輩不及，今在狴犴，何也？」
Earlier Yelü Wuzhi had been imprisoned for siding with the empress dowager; when Han heard of it he was delighted, and at the prison he said, "You once claimed we were beneath you—now you sit in a cage; what of that?"
其使誤入術者營，術者得詔，反誘牒蠟，執送太后。
The envoy mistakenly entered Shuzhe's camp; Shuzhe got the edict and instead lured Diepa in, seized him, and sent him to the empress dowager.
時太后命皇太弟李胡率兵而南，劉哥、安端遇於泰德泉。
The empress dowager had ordered the imperial younger brother Li Hu to march south with an army; Liuge and Anduan met him at Taide Spring.
及和議成，太后問劉哥曰：「汝何怨而叛？」
After peace was made, the empress dowager asked Liuge, "What grievance made you rebel?"
對曰：「臣父無罪，太后殺之，以此怨耳。」
He answered, "My father was innocent, yet Your Majesty killed him—that is my grievance."
世宗即位於軍中，皇太后以兵逆於潢河橫渡。
When Shizong was proclaimed in the army, the empress dowager marched against him with troops at Huanghe Hengdu.
太后遣耶律屋質責世宗自立。
The empress dowager sent Yelü Wuzhi to rebuke Shizong for proclaiming himself emperor.
海思見太后還，不稱旨。
Haishi met the empress dowager and returned, having failed to satisfy the emperor.
既和，領太后諸局事。
After peace was made, he oversaw the empress dowager's various bureaus.