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Yaonian Yanmujin, Chinese empress dowager
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Yaonian Yanmujin
10th-century empress dowager of the Liao dynasty
Yaonian Yanmujin or Xiao Yanmujin, formally Empress Xuanjian (宣簡皇后), was an empress dowager of the Khitan-led Chinese Liao dynasty. She was the mother of Liao's founder Emperor Taizu of Liao and the wife of his father Yelü Saladi (耶律薩剌的). During the reign of Emperor Taizu's son…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Empress dowager
Mother or widow of an emperor
Empress dowager is the English language translation of the title given to the mother or widow of a monarch, especially in regards to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Vietnamese monarchs in the Chinese cultural sphere. The term however, is applied well beyond just East Asia.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)