Overview
The translated histories identify Empress Xiao as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 4 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Empress Xiao | 蕭皇后 | Xiāo huánghòu |
| Title | Consort Xiao | 貴妃蕭氏 | Guìfēi Xiāo shì |
| Title | Empress | 皇后 | Huánghòu |
| Title | Empress | 皇后 | |
| Descriptive kinship | Empress of Jingzong | 皇后 | |
| Descriptive kinship | the empress | 皇后 | |
| Surname | Xiao | 蕭 | Xiāo |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Female
- Sex: femaleExplicit · liaoshi:008:s0022, liaoshi:009:s0137
- Sex: femaleStrongly inferred · liaoshi:072:s0162
Roles
- Consort
- Royal Family Member
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 四年 · Reign Id: liao-qianheng · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 982Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:009:s0137
- Source Date: Text: 保寧五年 · Western Year: AD 973Explicit · liaoshi:008:s0082
- Source Date: Text: 保寧元年 · Western Year: AD 969Explicit · liaoshi:008:s0022
- Source Date: Text: 保寧八年 · Western Year: AD 976Explicit · liaoshi:008:s0120
- Source Date: Text: 改元保寧 · Western Year: AD 969Strongly inferred · liaoshi:072:s0162
Family
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- Descendant of Humuli (胡母裏)Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
- Sibling of Elder sister of Jingzong's empress (皇后之姊)Kinship Term: elder sister / 姊 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full
- Kin of Xiao Haizhi (蕭海只)Kinship Term: empress's uncle / 國舅 · Line: maternal · Subject Role: niece · Object Role: maternal-uncle
- Spouse of Yelü Xian (耶律賢)Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband - Parent of Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒)Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: prince / 皇子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son - Child of Father of Empress Xiao (蕭皇后之父)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
- Kin of Niguzhi (尼古只)Kinship Term: Niguzhi / 尼古只 · Subject Role: kinsman · Object Role: kinswoman
Career and standing
- Label: Empress / 皇后 · Action: established · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保寧元年五月戊寅 · Western Year: AD 969Explicit · liaoshi:008:s0022
- Status: regent-authority · Action: military-and-state-affairs-to-follow-her-ordersExplicit · liaoshi:009:s0137
Places and affiliations
- Polity Id: liao · Relation: associated-withStrongly inferred · liaoshi:072:s0162
- Polity Id: liao · Relation: servedStrongly inferred · liaoshi:008:s0022
- Polity Id: liao · Relation: servedExplicit · liaoshi:009:s0137
Source notes
- Historicity: historicalExplicit · liaoshi:008:s0022
References in the histories
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