# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/empress-dowager-hu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:51:14.600Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/empress-dowager-hu"
name: "Empress Dowager Hu"
slug: "empress-dowager-hu"
description: "Empress Dowager Hu, formally Empress Ling (靈皇后), was an empress dowager of the Xianbei-led Chinese Northern Wei dynasty (515–528). 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, 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."
tagline: "Early 6th-century Empress of Northern Wei"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/%E8%83%A1%E5%A4%AA%E5%90%8E%E4%BB%99%E7%9C%9F%EF%BC%88%E5%8C%97%E5%8F%B2%E6%BC%94%E7%BE%A9%EF%BC%89.jpg/330px-%E8%83%A1%E5%A4%AA%E5%90%8E%E4%BB%99%E7%9C%9F%EF%BC%88%E5%8C%97%E5%8F%B2%E6%BC%94%E7%BE%A9%EF%BC%89.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "401"
deathDate: "0528-05-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.114690666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%A3%E6%AD%A6%E9%9D%88%E7%9A%87%E5%90%8E"
    title: "宣武靈皇后"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_(Kaiserinwitwe)"
    title: "Hu (Kaiserinwitwe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Dowager_Hu_(Northern_Wei)"
    title: "Empress Dowager Hu (Northern Wei)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9C%8A%E5%A4%AA%E5%90%8E"
    title: "霊太后"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%81%ED%83%9C%ED%9B%84"
    title: "영태후"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carica_majka_Hu"
    title: "Carica majka Hu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_av_Norra_Wei"
    title: "Hu av Norra Wei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%E1%BB%93_th%C3%A1i_h%E1%BA%ADu_(B%E1%BA%AFc_Ng%E1%BB%A5y)"
    title: "Hồ thái hậu (Bắc Ngụy)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AD%8F%E9%9D%88%E7%9A%87%E5%90%8E"
    title: "魏靈皇后"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1059956"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump