Five Dynasties · Royal Family Member and Consort

the empress dowager 太后

taihou

Attested AD 950

Passages: 7
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

the empress dowager was a Royal Family Member and Consort.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 950 乾祐三年
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 103, passages 207-208, 216, 219

Family

Kin of Guo Wei (郭威)
honored the dowager as mother 奉太后為母
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 103, passage 228

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Han 後漢 · Relation Associated with
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 103, passages 207-208, 216, 219

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 103Volume 103 Book of Later Han 5: Emperor Yin Annals, Part 2 · 7 passages

太祖起兵入京師，遽令草太后誥及議迎湘陰公儀註。 Entering the capital he ordered Fan Zhi to draft the dowager's proclamation and rites to welcome the lord of Xiangyin.

乃白太后，以質為兵部侍郎、樞密副使。）〉 He then had Zhi made war vice minister and bureau vice commissioner.)〉

威上章於太后，言為諸軍所迫班師。 Guo Wei memorialized the dowager that the armies had forced his return.

壬戌，奉太后誥，命樞密使侍中郭威監國，中外庶事，並取監國處分。 On renxu the dowager ordered vice grand councilor Guo Wei to supervise the state with full civil and military authority.

己未，太后誥曰：「比者，樞密使郭威，誌安社稷，議立長君，以徐州節度使赟，高祖近親，立為漢嗣，爰自藩鎮，征赴京師。 On jiwei the dowager proclaimed: "Recently Guo Wei, intending to settle the altars, deliberated establishing a senior ruler; Xuzhou commissioner Yun, Gaozu's close kinsman, was established as Han successor and summoned from his post to the capital.

明年正月丁卯，太后誥，奉符寶於監國，可即皇帝位。 Next year's first month, dingmao, the dowager delivered the regalia to the regent to take the throne.

周太祖踐阼，奉太后為母，遷於西宮，上尊號曰昭聖太后。 When Guo Wei took the throne he honored the dowager as mother, moved her to the western palace, and titled her Zhaosheng Empress Dowager.