Qin and Han · queen mother consulted by Wang Mang

Queen Mother Wang 王太后

Wang Taihou

Attested BC 1

Passages: 6
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Queen Mother Wang was a queen mother consulted by Wang Mang.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 1 哀帝崩
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 88, passage 214

Key source chapters

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 88Volume 77: Gai, Zhuge, Liu, Zheng, Sun, Wujiang and He · 1 passage

哀帝崩，王莽白王太后徵寶以為光祿大夫，與王舜等俱迎中山王。 Wang Mang recalled him to greet the boy emperor.

Book of Han, Chapter 102Volume 90: Cruel Officials · 5 passages

陛下縱自輕，奈宗廟太后何？」 Even if you discount your own safety, what of the altars of state and the empress dowager?"

縱有姊，以醫幸王太后。 Yi Zong's sister was a physician who caught the eye of Empress Dowager Wang.

太后問：「有子、兄弟為官者乎？」 The empress dowager asked: "Do you have sons or brothers serving as officials?"

太后乃告上，上拜義姁弟縱為中郎，補上黨郡中令。 The dowager then informed the emperor, who appointed Yi Xu's younger brother, Yi Zong, as a gentleman of the palace and posted him as interior chief of Shangdang.

以捕按太后外孫脩成子中，上以為能，遷為河內都尉。 His arrest and investigation of Zhong, a maternal grandson of the empress dowager, impressed the throne, and he became military governor of Henei.