Empress Zhang (Hongzhi)

Empress Xiaochengjing
孝成敬皇后
Empress dowager of the Ming dynasty
Tenure19 June 1505 – 28 August 1541
PredecessorEmpress Dowager Wang
SuccessorEmpress Dowager Rensheng
Empress Dowager Cisheng
Empress consort of the Ming dynasty
Tenure22 September 1487 – 8 June 1505
PredecessorEmpress Xiaozhenchun
SuccessorEmpress Xiaojingyi
Born1471
Xingji County, Zhili (present-day Cang County, Hebei, China)
Died28 August 1541(1541-08-28) (aged 69–70)
Spouse
(m. 1487; died 1505)
Issue
Posthumous name
Empress Xiàochéng Jìngsù Zhuāngcí Zhéyí Yìtiān Zànshèng Jìng (孝成靖肅莊慈哲懿翊天贊聖敬皇后)
ClanZhang (張)
FatherZhang Lun, Duke of Chang (昌國公 張巒)
MotherLady Jin (金氏)

Empress Xiaochengjing (1471– 28 August 1541), of the Zhang clan, was a Chinese empress consort of the Ming dynasty, married to the Hongzhi Emperor and mother of the Zhengde Emperor.