Ming · Empress Dowager Cishou

Empress Dowager Zhang 張太后

Attested AD 1521

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Empress Dowager Zhang was an empress Dowager Cishou.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1521 嘉靖初
Directly stated · History of Ming 115, passage 83

Events and relationships

Ordered Xingxian titles
Political · Authority
Directly stated · History of Ming 115, passages 85, 133

References in the histories

History of Ming, Chapter 115Volume 115 Biographies 3: Emperor Xingzong Xiaokang, Emperor Ruizong Xingxian · 2 passages

帝啟張太后，欲避天子位，奉母妃歸籓。 Jiajing told Empress Dowager Zhang he would abdicate and return with his mother to Anlu.

群臣以慈壽太后命，改稱興獻後，乃入。 At Empress Dowager Cishou's command ministers styled her Empress Xingxian, after which she entered.