Five Dynasties · Empress and Empress Dowager of Later Jin

Empress Dowager Li 李氏

Lǐ shì

First attested AD 928; died AD 950

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Empress Dowager Li was an empress and Empress Dowager of Later Jin.

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  1. Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 86 Volume 86 Book of Later Jin 12: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 25 passages
  2. Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 85 Volume 85 Book of Later Jin 11: Emperor Shao 4 10 passages

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 85Volume 85 Book of Later Jin 11: Emperor Shao 4 · 10 passages
孫臣某言:今月十七日寅時,相州節度使張彥澤、都監傅住兒部領大軍入京,賫到翁皇帝賜太后書示,於滹沱河降下杜重威一行馬步兵士,見領蕃漢步騎來幸汴州者。 Your grandson-subject reports: at the yin hour on the seventeenth Zhang Yanzhe, military governor of Xiangzhou, and chief inspector Fu Zhu'er entered the capital with a great army, bringing the letter the Imperial Father sent the empress dowager; Du Chongwei's horse and foot had surrendered at the Hutuo, and Khitan and Han forces were now marching on Bianzhou.
癸卯,帝與皇太后李氏、皇太妃安氏、皇后馮氏、皇弟重睿、皇子延煦延寶俱北行,以宮嬪五十人、內官三十人、東西班五十人、醫官一人、控鶴官四人、禦廚七人、茶酒三人、儀鸞司三人、軍健二十人從行。 On guimao the emperor went north with Empress Dowager Li, Grand Imperial Consort An, Empress Feng, his brother Chongrui, and Princes Yanxu and Yanbao, attended by fifty palace women, thirty eunuchs, fifty court attendants, a physician, four Crane-Control officers, seven imperial cooks, three tea and wine servants, three from the Ceremonial Parasol bureau, and twenty guards.
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 86Volume 86 Book of Later Jin 12: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 25 passages
《契丹國志》云:天祿二年春二月,徙晉侯、太后於建州,中途安太妃卒,遺命晉侯曰:「焚骨為灰,南向揚之,庶幾遺魂得返中國也。」)〉 The Khitan State Annals records that in the second month of spring of the second year of Tianlu, when the Marquis of Jin and the empress dowager were relocated to Jianzhou, Grand Consort An died en route; her dying charge to the Marquis of Jin was: "Burn my bones to ash and scatter them southward — perhaps my lingering soul may return to China.")〉
前左禦正齊國夫人吳氏進封燕國夫人,書省魏國夫人崔氏進封梁國夫人,前右禦正天水郡夫人趙氏封衛國夫人,司簿孟氏封汧國夫人,前司簿李氏封隴西郡夫人,弟子院使齊氏、大使郭氏、副使賈氏並封本縣君,太后宮尚宮陳留郡夫人何氏進封鄭國夫人,河南郡夫人元氏進封齊國夫人,知客出使夫人石氏封武威郡夫人,春宮姚氏、常氏、焦氏、王氏、陶氏、魏氏、趙氏七人並超封郡夫人,寶省婉美趙氏封天水郡夫人,武氏以下十一人並授春宮,天福八年十一月敕。 Former Left Imperial Rectifier Madame Wu of Qi was advanced to Madame of Yan; Secretariat Madame Cui of Wei was advanced to Madame of Liang; Former Right Imperial Rectifier Madame Zhao of Tianshui Commandery was enfeoffed Madame of Wei; Registrar Madame Meng was enfeoffed Madame of Qian; Former Registrar Madame Li was enfeoffed Madame of Longxi Commandery; Palace of Disciples Commissioner Qi, Grand Commissioner Guo, and Vice Commissioner Jia were all enfeoffed as Ladies of their native counties; Chief Palace Officer of the empress dowager's palace Madame He of Chenliu Commandery was advanced to Madame of Zheng; Madame Yuan of Henan Commandery was advanced to Madame of Qi; Guest Reception Envoy Madame Shi was enfeoffed Madame of Wuwei Commandery; Spring Palace ladies Yao, Chang, Jiao, Wang, Tao, Wei, and Zhao — seven in all — were exceptionally enfeoffed as Commandery Madames; Graceful Beauty Madame Zhao of the Baosheng Palace was enfeoffed Madame of Tianshui Commandery; Wu and eleven below were all appointed to the Spring Palace — by edict of the eleventh month of Tianfu 8.