Dates uncertain · mother of Zhongshan Filial King forced to suicide

Empress Dowager Feng 馮太后

Feng Taihou

Dates uncertain

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Empress Dowager Feng was a mother of Zhongshan Filial King forced to suicide.

Life and dates

Death

ordered to kill herself
Directly stated · Book of Han 88, passage 197

Places and affiliations

Zhongshan
中山
Directly stated · Book of Han 88, passage 249

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 88Volume 77: Gai, Zhuge, Liu, Zheng, Sun, Wujiang and He · 3 passages

初，傅太后與中山孝王母馮太后俱事元帝，有隙，傅太后使有司考馮太后，令自殺，眾庶冤之。 Fu's faction had forced Lady Feng of Zhongshan to suicide; opinion called it a frame.

馮氏反事明白，故欲□觖以揚我惡。 She said the Feng case was closed and Sun Bao only meant to smear her.

哀帝崩，莽秉政，使大司徒孔光奏隆前為冀州牧治中山馮太后獄冤陷無辜，不宜處位在中土。 When Emperor Ai died and Wang Mang took control of the government, he had Grand Minister over the Masses Kong Guang memorialize that, as former Shepherd of Ji Province, Long had mishandled the case of Empress Dowager Feng of Zhongshan and entrapped innocent people, and therefore should not serve in the central government.