Qin and Han · Empress and Consort

Empress Gongmin 恭愍皇后

Gongmin Huanghou

Attested AD 146 - AD 168

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Empress Gongmin was an empress and Consort.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 146 to AD 168 恭愍皇后
Strongly inferred · Book of Later Han 11, passage 37

Places and affiliations

Polity Eastern Han 東漢 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Book of Later Han 11, passage 37

Events and relationships

Empress title stripped
AD 190 初平元年 · Ritual · Subject
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 11, passages 19, 37-38

References in the histories

Book of Later Han, Chapter 11Volume 9: Annals of Emperor Xiaoxian · 1 passage

是歲，有司奏，和、安、順、桓四帝無功德，不宜稱宗，又恭懷、敬隱、恭愍三皇后並非正嫡，不合稱后，皆請除尊號。 Officials argued that Emperors He, An, Shun, and Huan did not merit the temple epithet “founding ancestor,” and that Empresses Liang, Wang, and Fu had never been chief consorts, so their posthumous empress titles should be stripped.