father death_date mother issue spouse article_title name
hu guozhen 17 may 528 lady huangfu yuan xu , emperor xiaoming yuan ke , emperor xuanwu empress dowager hu -lrb- northern wei -rrb-
 empress hu
empress dowager hu -lrb- northern wei -rrb-

empress dowager hu -lrb- 胡太后 , personal name unknown -rrb- -lrb- died 17 may 528 -rrb- , formally empress ling -lrb- 靈皇后 , literally `` the unattentive empress '' -rrb- , was an empress dowager of the chinese dynasty northern wei .
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 -lrb- interrupted by a period -lrb- 520-525 -rrb- where her overly trusted brother-in-law yuan cha seized power -rrb- , 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 -lrb- 鄭儼 -rrb- executed .
this caused the general erzhu rong to attack and capture the capital luoyang .
erzhu threw her into the yellow river to drown .
