Song, Liao, and Jin · Empress Dowager

Qin'ai 欽哀

Attested AD 1031 - AD 1055

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Qin'ai was an empress Dowager.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1031 to AD 1055 興宗朝
Strongly inferred · History of Liao 71, passage 205

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Xingzong (興宗)
mother 母
Directly stated · History of Liao 71, passage 205

Places and affiliations

Polity Id liao · Relation Of
Strongly inferred · History of Liao 71, passage 198

Events and relationships

Murdered
Political · Perpetrator · With Rightful Empress slain by Qin'ai (嫡後) · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Liao 71, passage 205

Assessments and attributes

Assessment ruthless and fierce · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Liao 71, passage 205

References in the histories

History of Liao, Chapter 71Volume 71 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage

欽哀狠桀，賊殺嫡後，而興宗不能防閑其母，惜哉！ Qin'ai was ruthless and fierce, a murderer of the rightful empress, yet Xingzong could not restrain his mother—how regrettable!