Song, Liao, and Jin · Consort

Empress Dowager Cisheng Guangxian 慈聖光獻皇后

Cisheng Guangxian

Attested AD 1063 - AD 1067

Passages
4
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Dowager Cisheng Guangxian as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 4 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Empress Dowager Cisheng Guangxian 慈聖光獻皇后 Cisheng Guangxian
Title Empress Dowager 皇太后
Posthumous Empress Dowager Cisheng Guangxian 慈聖光獻皇后
Title Grand Empress Dowager 太皇太后

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Female

Roles

  • Consort
  • Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 嘉祐八年 · Western Year: AD 1063
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:144:s0201
  • Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 1067
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:144:s0162
  • Source Date: Text: 治平元年 · Western Year: AD 1064
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:144:s0161

Family

  • Kin of Yingzong (英宗)
    Kinship Term: empress dowager / 皇太后 · Subject Role: empress-dowager · Object Role: emperor
  • Kin of Emperor Shenzong (神宗)
    Kinship Term: grand empress dowager / 太皇太后 · Subject Role: grand-empress-dowager · Object Role: emperor

Places and affiliations

References in the histories

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History of Song, Chapter 144Volume 144 Treatises 97: Ceremonial Guards 2 · 4 passages
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四年，神宗嗣位，詔太皇太后儀範已定，皇太后合設儀衛：禦龍直、骨朵子直差都虞候、都頭、副都頭各一人，十將、長行各共三十人； In year 4, when Emperor Shenzong succeeded, an edict noted that the grand empress dowager's protocol was already fixed and ordered ceremonial guards for the empress dowager: Imperial Dragon Direct and geku Direct each with one chief commander, one company head, one deputy company head, and 30 squad leaders and rank-and-file;