Li Lingrong

Li Lingrong
李陵容
Grand empress dowager of the Eastern Jin Dynasty
Tenure29 April 397 – 9 August 400
Empress dowager of the Eastern Jin Dynasty
Tenure27 September 394 – 29 April 397
PredecessorChu Suanzi
Consort dowager (皇太妃)
Tenure6 May 387 – 27 September 394
Born351
Died9 August 400(400-08-09) (aged 48–49)
Jiankang, Eastern Jin
SpouseEmperor Jianwen of Jin
IssueEmperor Xiaowu of Jin
Sima Daozi
Princess Foyang (鄱陽公主)

Li Lingrong (Chinese: 李陵容; 351[1] - 9 August 400[2]), formally Empress Dowager Xiaowuwen (孝武文太后, literally "the filial, martial, and civil empress dowager") was an empress dowager during Jin Dynasty (266–420). She was a concubine of Emperor Jianwen and the mother of Emperor Xiaowu.

  1. ^ According to Record of Jiankang, Lady Li was 50 (by East Asian reckoning) when she died. (后讳陵容...崩,时年五十。) Jiankang Shilu, vol.10. Thus by calculation, her birth year should be 351.
  2. ^ According to Sima Dezong's biography in Book of Jin, Lady Li died on the renzi day of the 7th month of the 4th year of the Longan era of Dezong's reign. This corresponds to 9 Aug 400 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. [(隆安四年)秋七月壬子,太皇太后李氏崩。] Jin Shu vol.10