Overview
The translated histories identify Empress Dowager Lou as a consort, royal family member, and ruler. This record brings together 36 passages from 9 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Found inBook of Northern Qi
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Empress Dowager Lou | 婁太后 | Lou taihou |
| Title | Empress Dowager | 皇太后 | Huáng tàihòu |
| Title | Empress Dowager | 皇太后 | |
| Title | Empress Dowager | 太后 | |
| Title | Empress Dowager | 太后 | Taihou |
| Title | Empress Dowager Lou | 婁太后 | Lou taihou |
| Title | Empress Dowager Lou | 皇太后婁氏 | |
| Title | Empress Dowager Lou | 婁太后 | |
| Title | Empress Dowager Wuming | 武明皇太后 | |
| Title | Empress Dowager Wuming | 武明太后 | |
| Posthumous name | Empress Wuming | 武明皇后 | |
| Temple | Empress Wuming | 武明皇後 | |
| Personal | Empress Wuming Lou | 武明婁後 | |
| Title | Grand Empress Dowager | 太皇太后 | Tài huáng tàihòu |
| Descriptive kinship | Grand Empress Dowager | 太皇太后 | Tài huáng tàihòu |
| Title | Grand Empress Dowager | 太皇太后 | |
| Surname | Lou | 婁 | Lou |
| Alternate name | Stone Granny | 石婆 |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Female
- Sex: female
- Sex: femaleStrongly inferred · beiqishu:034:s0117, beiqishu:040:s0085
Roles
- Consort
- Royal Family Member
- Ruler
Life and dates
Death
- Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大寧二年四月一日 · Western Year: AD 562Explicit · beiqishu:033:s0119
- Date Context: Source Date: Text: 河清元年夏四月辛丑 · Western Year: AD 562Explicit · beiqishu:007:s0028
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 乾明元年秋八月壬午 · Regnal Year: 1 · Season: autumn · Lunar Month: 8 · Day: Sexagenary: 壬午 · Western Year: AD 560Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:005:s0047
- Source Date: Text: 天保十年十月癸卯 · Regnal Year: 10 · Lunar Month: 10 · Day: Sexagenary: 癸卯 · Western Year: AD 559Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:005:s0024
- Source Date: Text: 中興元年 · Western Year: AD 531Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:003:s0001, beiqishu:003:s0003
- Source Date: Text: 乾明 · Western Year: AD 560Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:034:s0117
- Source Date: Text: 大寧二年 · Western Year: AD 562Explicit · beiqishu:033:s0107, beiqishu:033:s0119
- Source Date: Text: 大寧元年 · Western Year: AD 561Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:007:s0013
- Source Date: Text: 天保中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 559Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:031:s0091, beiqishu:031:s0098
- Source Date: Text: 文宣禪代前 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 550Explicit · beiqishu:033:s0095
- Source Date: Text: 武明皇後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 532 · End: AD 560Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0008
- Source Date: Text: 河清元年五月甲申 · Western Year: AD 562Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:007:s0031
- Source Date: Text: 河清元年夏四月辛丑 · Western Year: AD 562Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:007:s0028
- Source Date: Text: 禪代 · Western Year: AD 550Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:030:s0116
- Source Date: Text: 顯祖朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 550 · End: AD 559Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:040:s0085
Family
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- Kin of Lou Rui (婁叡)Kinship Term: nephew / 兄子 · Subject Role: nephew · Object Role: aunt · Generation Distance: 1 · Intermediary Person Ids: Lou Zhuang (婁壯)
- Sibling of Lou Zhuang (婁壯)Kinship Term: brother / 兄 · Subject Role: brother · Object Role: sister · Shared Parentage: uncertain
- Spouse of Gao Huan (高歡)Kinship Term: empress dowager / 太后 · Union Category: marriage
Kinship Term: empress / 后 · Union Category: marriage · Parentage: biological · Relationship State: active
Kinship Term: Empress Dowager Lou / 婁太后 · Union Category: marriage · Parentage: biological - Parent of Emperor Xiaozhao (孝昭)Kinship Term: empress dowager / 太后 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
- Parent of Gao Cheng (高澄)Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
- Parent of Gao Yang (高洋)Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological - Parent of Emperor Xiaozhao (孝昭帝)Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological - Parent of Prince Zhan of Changguang (長廣王湛)Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
- Parent of Prince of Changgung (長廣王)Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological
Places and affiliations
- Place: Yiping Mausoleum / 義平陵 · Relation: buried-at · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 河清元年五月甲申 · Western Year: AD 562Explicit · beiqishu:007:s0031
Works and attributed material
- Explicit · beiqishu:030:s0116, beiqishu:030:s0117
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker
Events and relationships
- Kind: political · Role: intercessor · Action: pleaded for Zheng Zhongli’s family · Other Person Id: Zheng Zhongli (鄭仲禮)Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0048
Source notes
- To: Stone Granny / 石婆 · Reason: folk taboo to avert misfortuneExplicit · beiqishu:033:s0109
References in the histories
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