Empress Liu (劉後) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Liu as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 12 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Empress Liu	劉後	Empress Liu
Title	empress	皇后	huanghou
Title	Empress	皇后	Huanghou
Title	Empress Liu	劉後	Empress Liu
Personal name	Empress Liu	劉氏	Liu shi
Personal name	Lady Liu	劉氏	Liu shi
Title	Lady of Pei	沛國夫人	Peiguo furen
Surname	Liu	劉	Liu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:069:s0226, xinwudaishi:007:s0061, xinwudaishi:016:s0001, xinwudaishi:016:s0003

Roles

Consort
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died-with-husband · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 后及重美與俱死 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0030

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 丁巳 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:007:s0061
Source Date: Text: 后及重美與俱死 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0030
Source Date: Text: 廢帝即位，立為皇后 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:016:s0004
Source Date: Text: 清泰 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:069:s0226, jiuwudaishi:069:s0235

Family

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Spouse of Li Congke (李從珂)
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband · Relationship State: active
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband
Child of Maowei (茂威)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
Sibling of Liu Yanhao (劉延皓)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: younger · Subject Role: younger-brother · Object Role: elder-sister
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: uncertain

Career and standing

Title: Lady of Pei / 沛國夫人 · Action: received
Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0004
Title: Empress / 皇后 · Action: enthroned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 廢帝即位 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:016:s0004
Title: empress / 皇后 · Action: established · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 丁巳 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit · xinwudaishi:007:s0061

Places and affiliations

Place: Hunyuan in Ying Prefecture / 應州渾元 · Relation: through-father
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:016:s0002

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: actor · Action: prepared-to-burn-palace · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 晉兵將至 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0028

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: fierce and domineering · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · xinwudaishi:016:s0003

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 69Volume 69 Book of Later Tang 45: Biographies 21: Zhang Xian, Wang Zhengyan, Hu Zhuang, Cui Yisun, Meng Hu, Sun Yue, Zhang Yanlang, Liu Yanhao, Liu Yanlang · 2 passages

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延皓即劉後之弟也。 Yanhao was the younger brother of Empress Liu.

時執政以延皓失守，請舉舊章，末帝以劉後內政之故，止從罷免而已，由是清泰之政弊矣。 At the time the chief ministers, because Yanhao had lost his command, asked to apply the old regulations; the Last Emperor, because of Empress Liu's influence in the inner court, only went so far as dismissal—thereby the government of Qingtai was harmed.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7Volume 7 Later Tang Annals 4: Deposed Emperors · 1 passage

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丁巳，立沛國夫人劉氏為皇后。 On dingsi Lady Liu of Pei was enthroned as empress.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 16Volume 16: Family of the Tang Deposed Emperor · 9 passages

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廢帝皇后劉氏 Empress Liu, wife of the deposed Later Tang emperor.

廢帝皇后劉氏，父茂威，應州渾元人也。 Empress Liu, wife of the deposed emperor, was the daughter of Maowei of Hunyuan in Ying Prefecture.

后為人彊悍，廢帝素憚之。 She was fierce and domineering by nature, and the deposed emperor had always been afraid of her.

初封沛國夫人，廢帝即位，立為皇后。 She was first created Lady of Pei; when the deposed emperor acceded, she was enthroned as empress.