Empress Dowager Cao (曹氏)

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Dowager Cao as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 3 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Empress Dowager Cao	曹氏	Cáo
Title	empress dowager	皇太后	Huang Taihou
Title	Empress Dowager	母后
Personal	Empress Dowager Cao	曹氏
Personal name	Empress Dowager Cao	曹氏	Cao Shi
Title	grand empress dowager	太皇太后	Taihuang Taihou

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · liaoshi:025:s0162, songshi:110:s0123

Roles

Consort
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 九年十二月 · Western Year: AD 1093
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:025:s0165
Source Date: Text: 九年十月 · Western Year: AD 1093
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:025:s0162
Source Date: Text: 熙寧二年 · Western Year: AD 1069
Explicit · songshi:110:s0123

Career and standing

Title: Grand Empress Dowager / 太皇太后 · Action: received · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 熙寧二年 · Western Year: AD 1069
Explicit · songshi:110:s0123

Places and affiliations

Polity: Song / 宋 · Relation: member-of
Explicit · liaoshi:025:s0162

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 25Volume 25 Annals 25: Daozong 5 · 2 passages

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甲子，宋遣使告其母后曹氏哀，即遣使吊祭。 On jiazi day Song sent envoys to announce mourning for Empress Dowager Cao; envoys were immediately dispatched to offer condolences.

十二月丙辰，宋遣使以母后遺留物來饋。 On bingchen day of the twelfth month Song sent envoys presenting the late empress dowager's bequeathed goods.

History of Song, Chapter 110Volume 110 Treatises 63: Rites 13 · 1 passage

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熙寧二年，神宗尊皇太后曹氏為太皇太后，詣文德殿跪奉玉冊授攝太尉曾公亮、金寶授攝司徒韓絳，又跪奉皇太后高氏玉冊授攝太尉文彥博、金寶授攝司徒趙抃，禮畢，百官稱賀。 In Xining 2, 1069, Shenzong honored Empress Dowager Cao as grand empress dowager. At Wende Hall he knelt and presented the jade patent to Acting Grand Commandant Zeng Gongliang and the gold seal to Acting Minister over the Masses Han Jiang. He knelt again and presented the jade patent of Empress Dowager Gao to Acting Grand Commandant Wen Yanbo and the gold seal to Acting Minister over the Masses Zhao Bian. When the rites were complete, all officials offered congratulations.