Overview
The translated histories identify Empress Dowager Chengtian as a consort, royal family member, and ruler. This record brings together 34 passages from 8 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Empress Dowager Chengtian | 承天皇太后 | Chéngtiān Huángtàihòu |
| Title | empress dowager | 太后 | |
| Title | Empress Dowager | 皇太后 | Huángtàihòu |
| Title | Empress Dowager | 皇太后 | |
| Title | Empress Dowager | 太后 | |
| Title | Empress Dowager | 皇太后 | Huang taihou |
| Title | Empress Dowager | 太后 | Taihou |
| Title | Empress Dowager | 皇太后 | huángtàihòu |
| Title | Empress Dowager Chengtian | 承天皇太后 | |
| Title | Empress Dowager Chengtian | 承天皇太后 | Chengtian |
| Title | Empress Dowager Chengtian | 承天皇太后 | Chengtian Huang Taihou |
| Title | Empress Dowager Chengtian | 承天太后 | Chengtian Taihou |
| Title | Empress Dowager Chengtian | 承天皇太后 | Chéngtiān huángtàihòu |
| Title | Empress Dowager Chengtian | 承天太后 | |
| Title | Empress Dowager Who Received Heaven | 承天皇太后 | Chengtian huang taihou |
| Title | Sagacious Virtue, Divine Strategy, Responsive to Fortune, Initiating Transformation, Upholding Heaven Empress Dowager | 睿德神略應運啟化承天皇太后 | |
| Title | Sage Virtue, Divine Strategy, Responsive Fortune, Initiating Transformation, Sustaining Heaven Empress Dowager | 睿德神略應運啟化承天皇太后 | |
| Title | the empress dowager | 太后 | |
| Personal | Xiao Chuo | 蕭綽 |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Female
- Sex: female
- Sex: femaleStrongly inferred · liaoshi:014:s0019, liaoshi:045:s0313
Roles
- Consort
- Royal Family Member
- Ruler
Life and dates
Death
- Place: traveling palace / 行宮 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十七年十二月辛卯 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 27 · Western Year: AD 1009Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0218, liaoshi:014:s0215
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 統和元年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 983
- Source Date: Text: 統和19年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 19 · Western Year: AD 1001Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0019
- Source Date: Text: 統和21年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 21 · Western Year: AD 1003Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0073
- Source Date: Text: 統和22年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 22 · Western Year: AD 1004Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0100
- Source Date: Text: 統和23年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 23 · Western Year: AD 1005Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0148, liaoshi:014:s0156
- Source Date: Text: 統和24年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 24 · Western Year: AD 1006Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0185
- Source Date: Text: 統和二十四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 24 · Western Year: AD 1006Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:091:s0031
- Source Date: Text: 二十七年十二月 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 27 · Western Year: AD 1009Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0216, liaoshi:014:s0215
- Source Date: Text: 二十七年十二月辛卯 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 27 · Western Year: AD 1009Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0218, liaoshi:014:s0215
- Source Date: Text: 乾亨五年 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 983Explicit · liaoshi:056:s0054
- Source Date: Text: 統和五年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 987Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:012:s0011
- Source Date: Text: 統和六年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 988Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:012:s0028, liaoshi:012:s0057
- Source Date: Text: 統和七年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 989Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:012:s0137, liaoshi:012:s0178
- Source Date: Text: 冊承天皇太后儀 · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 1009Strongly inferred · liaoshi:055:s0096
- Source Date: Text: 冊承天皇太后儀 · Western Interval: Start: AD 916 · End: AD 1125Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:057:s0022
- Source Date: Text: 承天皇太后崇德宮 · Western Interval: Start: AD 982 · End: AD 1009Strongly inferred · liaoshi:045:s0313
Family
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- Kin of Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒)Kinship Term: Empress Dowager / 皇太后 · Subject Role: empress-dowager · Object Role: emperor
- Parent of Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒)Kinship Term: empress dowager / 皇太后 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: Empress Dowager / 皇太后 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Career and standing
- Title: Sagacious Virtue, Divine Strategy, Responsive to Fortune, Initiating Transformation, Upholding Heaven Empress Dowager / 睿德神略應運啟化承天皇太后 · Action: conferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和五年夏四月丁酉 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 987Explicit · liaoshi:012:s0011
- Title: Sage Virtue, Divine Strategy, Responsive Fortune, Initiating Transformation, Sustaining Heaven Empress Dowager / 睿德神略應運啟化承天皇太后 · Action: receivedExplicit · liaoshi:014:s0185
- Title: Empress Dowager Chengtian / 承天皇太后 · Action: heldExplicit · liaoshi:057:s0022
- Title: Empress Dowager Who Received Heaven / 承天皇太后 · Action: heldExplicit · liaoshi:055:s0096
- Title: Empress Dowager Chengtian / 承天皇太后 · Action: receivedExplicit · liaoshi:056:s0019
- Status: empress-dowager · Action: held
- Label: execution of Hulishi / 殺胡裏室 · Action: ordered · Authority Person Id: Empress Dowager Chengtian (承天皇太后)Explicit · liaoshi:012:s0028
Places and affiliations
- Polity Id: liao · Relation: affiliated-withStrongly inferred · liaoshi:014:s0216, liaoshi:014:s0218
- Polity Id: liao · Relation: affiliated-withExplicit · liaoshi:045:s0313
- Polity Id: liao · Relation: associated-withExplicit · liaoshi:056:s0019, liaoshi:056:s0054
- Polity Id: liao · Relation: consort-householdExplicit · liaoshi:057:s0022
- Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
- Place: traveling palace / 行宮 · Relation: died-at · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十七年十二月辛卯 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 27 · Western Year: AD 1009Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0218, liaoshi:014:s0215
- Place: Chongde Palace / 崇德宮 · Relation: eponym-ofExplicit · liaoshi:045:s0313
Events and relationships
- Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: commended Tanggu's proposal and enacted it as statute for border commanderies · Other Person Id: Yelü Tanggu (耶律唐古)Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0031
- Kind: ritual · Role: investee · Action: empress-dowager-investiture-ceremonyExplicit · liaoshi:057:s0022
- Kind: legal · Role: authority · Action: executed · Other Person Id: Hulishi (胡裏室) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和六年夏四月丁酉 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 988Explicit · liaoshi:012:s0028
- Kind: medical · Role: subject · Action: fell-ill · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十七年十二月 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 27 · Western Year: AD 1009Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0216, liaoshi:014:s0215
- Kind: political · Role: authority · Action: granted-surname-and-title · Other Person Id: Han Derang (韓德讓)Explicit · liaoshi:014:s0142
- Kind: ritual · Role: honoree · Action: invested-as-empress-dowager · Other Person Id: Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和元年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 983
- Kind: ritual · Role: honoree · Action: invested-as-empress-dowager · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和元年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 983Explicit · liaoshi:054:s0194, liaoshi:054:s0073
- Kind: ritual · Role: rider · Action: rode-flat-top-palanquin · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 冊承天皇太后儀 · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 1009Strongly inferred · liaoshi:055:s0096
Assessments and attributes
- Item: empress dowager seal / 寶 · Relation: associated-in-ceremonyExplicit · liaoshi:057:s0022
Source notes
- Historicity: historicalExplicit · liaoshi:014:s0019, liaoshi:055:s0096
References in the histories
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