Five Dynasties · Royal Family Member

Empress Dowager 太后

First attested AD 947; died AD 950

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Empress Dowager was a Royal Family Member.

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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 17Volume 17: The Later Jin Imperial Family · 12 passages
於是太后與馮皇后、皇弟重睿、皇子延煦、延寶等舉族從帝而北,以宮女五十、宦者三十、東西班五十、醫官一、控鶴官四、禦廚七、茶酒司三、儀鸞司三、六軍士二十人從,衛以騎兵三百。 So the dowager, Empress Feng, the emperor’s younger brother Chongrui, and the princes Yanxu and Yanbao went north with the whole clan—fifty palace women, thirty eunuchs, fifty eastern and western attendants, one physician, four Crane-Taming officers, seven imperial cooks, three tea-and-wine offices, three ceremonial offices, and twenty soldiers of the Six Armies in attendance, escorted by three hundred horsemen.