Empress Hu (胡皇后) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Hu as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 6 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 Hu	胡皇后	Hu huanghou
Title	Consort Hu	妃胡氏
Title	Empress	皇后
Title	Empress Dowager	太后
Surname	Hu	胡	Hu
Surname	Hu	胡
Title	Hu Empress	胡皇后
Title	Wucheng’s Empress Hu	武成皇後

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · beiqishu:007:s0021, beiqishu:048:s0063
Sex: female
Strongly inferred · beiqishu:040:s0025

Roles

Consort
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天統前後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 561 · End: AD 573
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:040:s0025, beiqishu:040:s0045
Source Date: Text: 武成皇後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 561 · End: AD 570
Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0063
Source Date: Text: 河清元年正月丙戌 · Western Year: AD 562
Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:007:s0021

Family

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Sibling of Hu Changren (胡長仁)
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: brother · Object Role: sister
Spouse of Prince Zhan of Changguang (長廣王湛)
Kinship Term: empress / 皇後 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: formed
Child of Hu Yan (胡延之)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
Parent of Gao Wei (高緯)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Sibling of Wife of Feng Zicong (子琮妻)
Kinship Term: younger sister / 妹 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger

Career and standing

Title: Empress / 皇后 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 河清元年正月丙戌 · Western Year: AD 562
Explicit · beiqishu:007:s0021
Status: empress-dowager · Action: held
Explicit · beiqishu:048:s0074, beiqishu:048:s0089

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 7Volume 7 Annals 7: Emperor Wucheng · 1 passage

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丙戌，立妃胡氏為皇后，子緯為皇太子。 On bingxu, Consort Hu was made empress and his son Wei was made crown prince.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 40Volume 40 Biographies 32: Yu Jin (Northern Qi); Feng Zicong; Helian Ziyue; Tang Yong; Bai Jian · 2 passages

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元文遙以子琮太后妹夫，恐其獎成太后干政，說趙郡王及士開出之，拜鄭州刺史，即令之任。 Yuan Wenyao, because Zicong was the empress's brother-in-law, feared he would encourage her to meddle in government. He persuaded Prince of Zhao commandery and He Shikai to send him out, made him governor of Zheng, and ordered him to take up the post at once.

至州未幾，太后為齊安王納子琮長女為妃，子琮因請假赴鄴，遂授吏部尚書。 Not long after he reached the province, the empress dowager took Zicong's eldest daughter as consort for Prince of Qi'an. Zicong asked leave to go to Ye and was then made minister of personnel.

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 48Volume 48 Biographies 40: Imperial Affines · 3 passages

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胡長仁，字孝隆，安定臨涇人，武成皇後之兄。 Hu Changren, styled Xiaolong, was from Linjing in Anding and elder brother of Wucheng’s Empress Hu.

入見太后，不過百日失官，便代其處。」 See the empress dowager; within a hundred days you lose your post, then you take his.”

遂言於太后，發其陰私，請出為州，後主不得已從焉。 He then spoke to the empress dowager, exposed Changcan's private misconduct, and asked that he be sent out to a province; the Later Sovereign had no choice but to agree.