Empress Dowager Deng (鄧太后)

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Dowager Deng as a consort, royal family member, and ruler. This record brings together 31 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 Deng	鄧太后	Dèng Tàihòu
Surname	Deng	鄧
Surname	Deng	邓	Deng
Surname	Deng	邓
Title	Dowager Deng	邓太后
Title	Empress Deng	邓皇后	Dèng huánghòu
Title	Empress Dowager	太后
Title	Empress Dowager Deng	鄧太后	Dèng Tàihòu
Title	Empress Dowager Deng	鄧太后	Deng Taihou
Title	Empress Dowager Deng	鄧太后
Title	Empress Dowager Deng	邓太后
Title	Empress Dowager Deng	邓太后	Deng Taihou
Title	Empress Dowager Deng	邓太后	Dèng tàihòu
Title	Honored Person Deng	邓贵人
Title	Lady Deng
Title	Lady Deng	邓贵人	Dèng guìrén
Title	Worthy Lady Deng	邓贵人	Deng Guiren

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · houhanshu:034:s0085, houhanshu:037:s0078, houhanshu:089:s0343, houhanshu:116:s0019, houhanshu:117:s0027, houhanshu:119:s0082
Sex: female
Strongly inferred · houhanshu:110:s0124
Value: female
Strongly inferred · houhanshu:028:s0158

Roles

Consort
Royal Family Member
Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 后二岁三月 · Western Year: AD 121
Explicit · houhanshu:119:s0120
Manner: died
Explicit · houhanshu:116:s0106

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 112
Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:116:s0035
Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Western Year: AD 100
Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:116:s0019
Source Date: Text: 安帝永初 · Western Year: AD 107
Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:116:s0075
Source Date: Text: 安帝永初三年 · Western Year: AD 109
Explicit · houhanshu:034:s0085, houhanshu:034:s0086, houhanshu:034:s0089
Source Date: Text: 延光四年 · Western Year: AD 125
Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:116:s0105
Source Date: Text: 延平元年 · Western Year: AD 106
Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:117:s0118, houhanshu:117:s0117
Source Date: Text: 建光中 · Western Year: AD 121
Explicit · houhanshu:117:s0027
Source Date: Text: 殇帝延平元年 · Western Year: AD 106
Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:116:s0023
Source Date: Text: 永元七年 · Western Year: AD 95
Explicit · houhanshu:119:s0082
Source Date: Text: 永元十五年 · Western Year: AD 103
Explicit · houhanshu:119:s0091
Source Date: Text: 永初五年 · Western Year: AD 111
Explicit · houhanshu:119:s0099
Source Date: Text: 永初元年 · Western Year: AD 107
Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:117:s0027, houhanshu:117:s0024
Source Date: Text: 永初元年 · Western Year: AD 107
Explicit · houhanshu:119:s0095
Source Date: Text: 永初年間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 107 · End: AD 112
Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:028:s0158
Source Date: Text: 永宁元年 · Western Year: AD 120
Explicit · houhanshu:089:s0344
Source Date: Text: 永宁后二岁三月 · Western Year: AD 121
Explicit · houhanshu:119:s0120
Source Date: Text: 永寧元年 · Western Year: AD 120
Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:037:s0078
Source Date: Text: 邓太后摄政 · Western Year: AD 106
Explicit · houhanshu:110:s0124
Source Date: Text: 邓太后诏 · Western Interval: Start: AD 105 · End: AD 121
Explicit · houhanshu:089:s0343

Family

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Spouse of Emperor He (和帝)
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Subject Role: empress · Object Role: emperor
Kinship Term: worthy lady / 贵人 · Union Category: secondary-marriage · Relationship State: active

Kinship Role: clan members · Count: 8 · Note: eight or nine of the Deng clan died under pressure
Explicit · houhanshu:117:s0157

Career and standing

Status: honored-person · Action: entered
Explicit · houhanshu:119:s0082
Status: empress · Action: enthroned
Explicit · houhanshu:119:s0091
Status: empress-dowager-regent · Action: held
Explicit · houhanshu:119:s0095, houhanshu:119:s0099
Status: regent · Action: held
Explicit · houhanshu:116:s0023, houhanshu:116:s0035, houhanshu:117:s0027

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: regent · Action: acted-as-regent
Explicit · houhanshu:110:s0124
Kind: political · Role: decision-maker · Action: followed then dismissed Yang Hou
Explicit · houhanshu:034:s0086, houhanshu:034:s0089
Kind: court-debate · Role: convener · Action: ordered high ministers to debate criminal procedure · Other Person Id: Lu Gong (魯恭)
Explicit · houhanshu:028:s0158
Kind: scholarly · Role: commissioner · Action: ordered-biographies · Other Person Id: Liu Zhen (刘珍)
Explicit · houhanshu:089:s0344
Kind: scholarly · Role: commissioner · Action: ordered-collation · Other Person Id: Liu Zhen (刘珍)
Explicit · houhanshu:089:s0343
Relation: regent-for · Person Id: Emperor Shang (殇帝)
Explicit · houhanshu:110:s0124