Lady Xiao (王妃蕭氏)

Overview

The translated histories identify Lady Xiao as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 5 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Lady Xiao	王妃蕭氏	Wangfei Xiao Shi
Descriptive kinship	Consort of the Prince of Wei	魏國王妃蕭氏
Title	Empress Dowager	太后
Personal	Lady Xiao	王妃蕭氏
Surname	Xiao	蕭	Xiao

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · liaoshi:102:s0049

Roles

Consort
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 保大初 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1121
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:102:s0049, liaoshi:102:s0053, liaoshi:102:s0057

Family

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Spouse of Yelü Chun (耶律淳)
Kinship Term: prince's consort / 王妃 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife

Career and standing

Status: empress-dowager · Action: installed
Explicit · liaoshi:102:s0049
Title: Empress Dowager / 太后 · Note: provisional authority over military and state affairs
Explicit · liaoshi:102:s0049

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: associated-with
Explicit · liaoshi:102:s0049

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Li Chuwen (李處溫)
Explicit · liaoshi:102:s0054, liaoshi:102:s0055

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 102Volume 102 Biographies 32: Xiao Fengxian, Li Chuwen, Zhang Lin, Yelu Yudu · 5 passages

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魏國王卒，蕭幹擁契丹兵，宣言當立王妃蕭氏為太后，權主軍國事，眾無敢異者。 When the Prince of Wei died, Xiao Gan rallied the Khitan troops and proclaimed that the prince's consort, Lady Xiao, should be made empress dowager with provisional authority over military and state affairs. No one dared object.

幹以後命，召處溫至，時方多難，未欲即誅，但追毀元帥劄子。 At the dowager's order, Gan summoned Chuwen. With troubles pressing on every side, he was not yet ready to have him killed, but only demanded that the commander-in-chief's commission be surrendered and destroyed.

尋有永清人傅遵說隨郭藥師入燕，被擒，具言處溫嘗遺易州富民趙履仁書達宋將童貫，欲挾蕭後納土歸宋。 Soon afterward a man of Yongqing named Fu Zunshuo, who had followed Guo Yaoshi into Yan, was captured and testified in full that Chuwen had once sent Zhao Lüren, a wealthy man of Yizhou, with a letter to the Song general Tong Guan, proposing to deliver the Xiao empress dowager and surrender the territory to Song.

後執處溫問之，處溫曰：「臣父子於宣宗有定策功，宜世蒙宥容，可使因讒獲罪？」 The empress dowager had Chuwen seized and questioned him. Chuwen said, "My father and I earned merit by settling the succession for Emperor Xuanzong. Our house ought to enjoy pardon from generation to generation. How can we be condemned on the strength of slander?"

後曰：「向使魏國王如周公，則終享親賢之名於後世。 The empress dowager replied, "If the Prince of Wei had acted like the Duke of Zhou, he would have won lasting fame in later ages as a kinsman who cherished the worthy.