Qin and Han · Consort

Empress Dowager Wang 漢皇太后

Han Huang Taihou

Attested BC 128

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Empress Dowager Wang was a consort.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 128 漢皇太后
Directly stated · Book of Han 47, passage 124

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Princess of Xiucheng (脩成君)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Han 47, passage 125

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 47Volume 38: The Five Sons of Emperor Gao · 5 passages

齊有宦者徐甲，入事漢皇太后。 Among Qi's eunuchs was Xu Jia, who had gone to Chang'an to wait on the empress dowager.

皇太后有愛女曰脩成君，脩成君非劉氏子，太后憐之。 The empress dowager doted on a daughter named the Princess of Xiucheng—no child of the imperial Liu line—and showered her with tenderness.

皇太后大喜，使甲之齊。 Delighted, she dispatched him north.

甲大窮，還報皇太后曰：「王已願尚娥，然事有所害，恐如燕王。」 Xu Jia, badly cornered, returned and reported to the empress dowager: "The king was willing to marry E, but there was danger in the matter; he feared it would be like the case of the king of Yan."

故以燕感太后。 He used the example of Yan to dissuade the empress dowager.