Ming · Empress Dowager

Empress Xiaogongzhang 孝恭章皇后

Xiaogongzhang

Died AD 1462

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Chapters
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Histories
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Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Xiaogongzhang as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 3 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Empress Xiaogongzhang 孝恭章皇后 Xiaogongzhang
Title Empress Dowager 皇太后
Posthumous name Empress Xiaogongzhang 孝恭章皇后 Xiaogongzhang

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Female

Roles

  • Consort
  • Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: died as Empress Dowager · Source Term: · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順六年九月乙未 · Western Year: AD 1462
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0157

Attested activity

Family

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  • Parent of Yingzong (英宗)
    Kinship Term: empress dowager / 皇太后 · Parentage: biological · Line: maternal · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: emperor son
    Kinship Term: empress dowager / 皇太后 · Parentage: biological · Line: maternal · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother

Career and standing

  • Honor: elevated honorific title / 上尊號 · Action: received · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順二年春正月己卯 · Western Year: AD 1458
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0072

Places and affiliations

  • Polity: Ming / 明 · Relation: member of the imperial house
    Strongly inferred · mingshi:012:s0072

Source notes

  • Kind: burial · Statement: Buried in the eleventh month under the posthumous title Empress Xiaogongzhang · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順六年冬十一月甲午 · Western Year: AD 1462
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0158

References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 12Volume 12 Annals 12: Yingzong Later Records · 3 passages