Empress Dowager Wang (Southern Ming)

Letter from the Empress Dowager Wang (the "honorary mother" of the Yongli Emperor) to the Pope with a request for help. November 1650. Latin translation by Michał Boym.

Empress Dowager Wang (born Wang Huiling, Chinese: 王徽灵; c. 1594? – 1651), formally known as Empress Dowager Xiaozheng (Chinese: 孝正太后), was an empress dowager of the Southern Ming dynasty of China.[1] She was the main consort of Zhu Changying, Prince of Gui, the father of the Yongli Emperor. She converted to Catholicism and adopted the name Helena.[2]

  1. ^ Xu, Tzu Hsu (2018). Xiao Dian Ji Zhuan. Beijing: Zhong Hua Shu Ju. p. Vol. 5 P. 189. ISBN 978-7101133967.
  2. ^ Struve, Lynn A. "Wang, Empress Dowager, of late Ming". In Lee, Lily Xiao Hong; Stefanowska, A. D. (eds.). 中國婦女傳記詞典. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe. pp. 206–208. ISBN 978-0-7656-1827-6.