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AD 490Placed in a yearEast AsiaPolitics and institutions

Death of Grand Empress Dowager Feng

The Wei shu basic annals record that on the guichou day of the ninth lunar month of Taihe 14 (AD 490) the Grand Empress Dowager, née Feng (馮氏), died.

Limits: An official history compiled 551-554 by Wei Shou under the Northern Qi from Northern Wei records; the English is an AI working translation. The same annals record her burial at the Yonggu mausoleum on the guiyou day of the tenth month and give her title there as Wenming (文明) Grand Empress Dowager.

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Source: Wei shu (Book of Wei), basic annalsRead the source