Empress Xiaosu

Empress Xiaosu
孝肅皇后
Grand empress dowager of the Ming dynasty
Tenure22 September 1487 – 17 March 1504
PredecessorGrand Empress Dowager Zhang
SuccessorGrand Empress Dowager Cisheng
Empress dowager of the Ming dynasty
Tenure9 December 1447 – 22 September 1487
PredecessorEmpress Dowager Xiaoyi
SuccessorEmpress Dowager Wang
Born1430
Changping County
Died17 March 1504(1504-03-17) (aged 73–74)
Burial
1504
Yuling
Spouse
(m. 1446; died 1464)
Issue
Posthumous name
Empress Xiaosu Zhēnshùn Kāngyì Guāngliè Fǔtiān Chéngshèng
(孝肅貞順康懿光烈輔天承聖皇后)
ClanZhou (周)
FatherZhou Neng, Duke of Ning (寧國公 周能)
MotherLady Zhen (甄氏)

Empress Xiaosu (1430 – 17 March 1504), of the Zhou clan, was the concubine of Emperor Yingzong of Ming and the mother of the Chenghua Emperor.