Empress Dowager Yingtian (應天皇太后)

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Dowager Yingtian as a consort, royal family member, and ruler. This record brings together 5 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Empress Dowager Yingtian	應天皇太后	Yìngtiān
Posthumous	Chaste and Resolute	貞烈
Title	Empress Dowager	皇太后
Title	Empress Dowager	皇太后	huángtàihòu
Title	Empress Dowager Yingtian	應天皇太后
Title	Empress Dowager Yingtian	應天太后	Yingtian
Title	Empress Dowager Yingtian	應天皇太后	Yìngtiān huángtàihòu
Title	late Grand Empress Dowager	大行皇太后

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · liaoshi:006:s0056, liaoshi:054:s0072, liaoshi:057:s0021

Roles

Consort
Royal Family Member
Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Date: Source Date: Text: 應曆3年六月丁卯 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 953
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 應曆3年 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:006:s0056
Source Date: Text: 天顯二年，應天皇太后稱制 · Western Year: AD 927
Explicit · liaoshi:057:s0021
Source Date: Text: 晉高祖使馮道、劉煦冊應天太后、太宗皇帝 · Western Year: AD 938
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Career and standing

Title: Empress Dowager Yingtian / 應天皇太后 · Action: held
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Status: regent · Action: assumed · Label: assumed regency / 稱制 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天顯二年 · Western Year: AD 927
Explicit · liaoshi:057:s0021
Status: empress-dowager · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:054:s0072

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: regent
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Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
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Place: ancestral tombs / 祖陵 · Relation: buried-at · Date: Source Date: Text: 應曆3年十一月 · Reign Id: liao-yingli · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 953
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Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: regent · Action: assumed-regency · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天顯二年 · Western Year: AD 927
Explicit · liaoshi:057:s0021
Kind: ritual · Role: honoree · Action: invested
Explicit · liaoshi:054:s0072

Assessments and attributes

Item: seal and investiture cord / 璽綬 · Relation: received · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天顯二年 · Western Year: AD 927
Explicit · liaoshi:057:s0021

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 6Volume 6 Annals 6: Muzong 1 · 3 passages

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六月丁卯，應天皇太后崩。 In the sixth month, on dingmao day, Empress Dowager Yingtian passed away.

冬十月己酉，命太師唐骨德治大行皇太后園陵。 That winter, in the tenth month on jiyou day, Grand Preceptor Tang Gude was ordered to oversee the tomb park of the late Grand Empress Dowager.

十一月辛丑，謚皇太后曰貞烈，葬祖陵。 In the eleventh month, on xinchou day, the late empress dowager was posthumously titled Chaste and Resolute and interred at the ancestral tombs.

History of Liao, Chapter 54Volume 54 Treatises 24: Music · 1 passage

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晉高祖使馮道、劉煦冊應天太后、太宗皇帝，其聲器、工官與法駕，同歸於遼。 When Jin Gaozu sent Feng Dao and Liu Xu to invest Empress Dowager Yingtian and Emperor Taizong, the musical instruments, musicians, and imperial regalia all passed into Liao hands together.

History of Liao, Chapter 57Volume 57 Treatises 27: Ceremonial Guards 3 · 1 passage

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天顯二年，應天皇太后稱制，群臣上璽綬。 In the second year of the Tianxian era (927), Empress Dowager Yingtian assumed regency, and the assembled ministers presented her with the seal and investiture cord.