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Overview The translated histories identify Empress Dowager as a consort. This record brings together 7 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
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Empress Dowager
太后
Title
Empress Dowager
太后
Identity
Historicity Historical
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Sex Female Life and dates Attested activity Works and attributed material Events and relationships Kind: political ·
Role: issuer ·
Action: issued-patent-for-heir ·
Other Person Id: Liu Yun (劉赟) Kind: political ·
Role: decision-maker ·
Action: ordered-Cheng-Xun-presented ·
Other Person Id: Cheng Xun (承勛) References in the histories Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 105 Volume 105 Book of Later Jin 7: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 7 passages
尋有太后令，言立湘陰公，即令其子往徐州奉迎。
Soon the dowager issued an order to install the Duke of Xiangyin as heir, and Xin immediately sent his son to Xuzhou to escort him.
時勛已病，大臣及諸將請候勛起居，太后令左右以臥榻舁之以見，諸將就視，知勛之不能興，故議立劉赟。
Xun was already ill; ministers and generals asked to call on him, and the dowager had attendants carry him on a couch to be seen; when the generals looked and saw he could not rise, they turned to naming Liu Yun heir.
乾祐三年冬十一月，周太祖駐軍於京師，議立嗣君，奉太后誥，立赟為嗣。
In the eleventh month of Qianyou 3, Zhou Taizu camped at the capital to choose an heir; obeying the dowager's patent, he named Yun successor.
威意色皆沮，以為大臣未有推己意，又難於自立，因與王峻入白太后，推擇漢嗣。
Wei's face fell; he took it that the ministers were not yet backing him and that seizing the throne on his own would be hard, so he and Wang Jun went in to the dowager to have a Later Han heir selected.
道見，傳太后意召之。
When Dao met Yun, he relayed the dowager's summons.
郭威以書召道先歸，留其副趙上交、王度奉赟入朝太后，道乃辭赟先還。
Guo Wei summoned Dao back by letter, leaving deputies Zhao Shangjiao and Wang Du to escort Yun to the dowager; Dao took leave of Yun and went ahead.
太后乃下詔曰：「比者，樞密使威，誌安宗社，議立長君，以徐州節度使赟，高祖親近，立為漢嗣，乃自藩鎮，召赴京師。
The dowager then issued an edict: "Recently Commissioner Wei, seeking to secure the realm, chose a mature ruler; Xuzhou governor Yun, close to Gaozu, was named Han heir and summoned from his province to the capital.