Empress Dowager Zhuangxian (莊憲太后)

Overview

Empress Dowager Zhuangxian was a Royal Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 820 莊憲太后
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 114, passage 56

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 114Volume 114 Biographies 39: Cui Rong and Descendent Cong, Descendent Neng, Neng's Nephew: Shen You, Neng's Nephew an Qian, Neng's Son: Yan Ceng, Xu Yanbo, Su Weidao, Dou Lu Qin Wang · 1 passage

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李翛以寵得京兆尹，為莊憲太后山陵橋道使，務以減末徭費為功，至不治道輴車留渭橋，久不得進。 Li Xiao, favored at court, became metropolitan magistrate of Jingzhao and commissioner for the mausoleum roads of Empress Dowager Zhuangxian; he made a show of cutting minor corvée costs, so that he neglected the road and the funeral carriage was stranded at Weiqiao for a long time.