Empress Dowager (太后)

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Dowager as a royal family member and ruler. This record brings together 6 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Empress Dowager	太后	Taihou
Title	Empress Dowager	太后

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Title only
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0088

Roles

Royal Family Member
Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 統和六年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 988
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:088:s0088

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 88Volume 88 Biographies 18: Xiao Dilie, Yelu Pennu, Xiao Paiya, Yelu Zizhong, Yelu Yaozhi, Yelu Honggu, Gao Zheng, Yelu Delu, Da Kangyi · 6 passages

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城陷，中流矢，太后親臨視，賜藥。 When the city fell he was struck by a stray arrow. The empress dowager came in person to visit him and bestowed medicine.

攻長城口，復先登，太后益多其功。 Attacking Changcheng Pass, he again led the first assault; the empress dowager praised his merit all the more.

還，公主疾，太后遣宮人賢釋侍之，恒德私焉。 On his return the princess fell ill. The empress dowager sent the palace woman Xian Shi to nurse her, and Hengde took her privately.

公主恚而薨，太后怒，賜死。 The princess died in anger. The empress dowager was furious and ordered him put to death.

時護衛馮家奴上變，誣後弟浞卜與匹敵謀逆，以皇后攝政，徐議當立者。 At that time the guard Feng Jianu submitted a report of treason, falsely accusing the empress's younger brother Chubuo and Pike of plotting rebellion so that the empress might hold the regency, and they might then deliberate who should be enthroned.

阿古母有寵於太后，事聞，太后怒，將殺之。 Agu's mother was favored by the empress dowager. When the matter was reported, the empress dowager was furious and was about to have him executed.