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| Died | 17 May 528 |
| Spouse | Yuan Ke, Emperor Xuanwu |
| Issue | Yuan Xu, Emperor Xiaoming |
| Father | Hu Guozhen |
| Mother | Lady Huangfu |
Empress Dowager Hu (Chinese: 胡太后, personal name unknown) (490s? – 17 May 528[1]), formally Empress Ling (靈皇后), was an empress dowager of the Xianbei-led Chinese Northern Wei dynasty (515–528).[2] She was a concubine of Emperor Xuanwu, and she became regent and empress dowager after her son Emperor Xiaoming became emperor after Emperor Xuanwu's death in 515. She was considered to be intelligent but overly lenient, and during her regency (interrupted by a period (520–525) where her overly trusted brother-in-law Yuan Cha seized power), many agrarian rebellions occurred while corruption raged among imperial officials. In 528, she was believed to have poisoned her son Emperor Xiaoming after he tried to have her lover Zheng Yan (鄭儼) executed. This caused the general Erzhu Rong to attack and capture the capital Luoyang. Erzhu threw her into the Yellow River to drown.
- ^ According to Emperor Xiaoming's biography in Book of Wei, Lady Hu and Yuan Zhao died on the gengzi day of the 4th month of the 1st year of the Wutai era of his reign. This corresponds to 17 May 528 on the Julian calendar. ([武泰元年夏四月]庚子，皇太后、幼主崩。) Wei Shu vol.09.
- ^ Grousset, Rene (1970). The Empire of the Steppes. Rutgers University Press. pp. 65. ISBN 0-8135-1304-9.