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- Empress Dowager Gong (龔太后, personal name unknown) (died 562), formally Empress Dowager Yuan (元太后, literally "the discerning empress dowager") was an empress dowager of the Chinese dynasty Western Liang dynasty. She was the mother of Emperor Xuan of Western Liang (Xiao Cha) who founded the Western Liang with the support of Western Wei. Lady Gong was a concubine of Xiao Tong, the first crown prince of Liang dynasty's founder Emperor Wu. Her rank was the second rank for a concubine of the crown prince, Baolin (保林). She gave birth to Xiao Cha in 519. (It is not known whether any of Xiao Tong's other four known sons were her sons as well, although his oldest son Xiao Huan (蕭歡) was not, as he was the son of Xiao Tong's wife Crown Princess Cai.) Little is known about her background, including her birth family, and Xiao Cha himself appeared to be closer to Crown Princess Cai's nephew Cai Dabao (蔡大寶) than he was with any cousins he might have had through his mother. Historical references to Lady Gong were not numerous. In 549, while Liang was in a state of disarray after the fall of the capital Jiankang to the rebel general Hou Jing and the imperial princes were battling each other, Xiao Cha, then the Prince of Yueyang, was leading an army against his uncle Xiao Yi the Prince of Xiangdong to try to save his brother Xiao Yu (蕭譽) the Prince of Hedong (whom Xiao Yi's forces were besieging), when he left his headquarters Xiangyang in the hands of Cai Dabao and Lady Gong (who was at that time still referred to as Baolin, not as princess dowager), and they defended the city against a surprise attack by the general Du An (杜岸), who served under Xiao Cha but had defected to Xiao Yi. When Xiao Cha retreated at night, Lady Gong, unaware of his military failure, mistook him for enemy; only until the next morning she realized him and let him in. Subsequently, in order to fend off Xiao Yi's attacks, Xiao Cha became a Western Wei vassal and was created the Prince of Liang. In 555, after Western Wei forces had defeated and killed Xiao Yi, Western Wei created Xiao Cha the emperor of (Western) Liang (as Emperor Xuan). While Emperor Xuan posthumously honored Xiao Tong as an emperor and Xiao Tong's wife Crown Princess Cai as an empress, he honored his mother as an empress dowager. After he died in 562 and was succeeded by his son Xiao Kui (as Emperor Ming), Emperor Ming honored her as grand empress dowager. She died about three months after her son. (en)
- 龔太后（－562年），谥号元太后，中國南北朝之西梁开国皇帝萧詧的母亲。西梁仅仅控制江陵，是西魏、北周和隋朝的傀儡。 龔氏是梁武帝昭明太子萧统的第二等妾室保林。於519年生下萧詧。萧统的长子蕭歡是正妻蔡夫人所生。史书没有记载萧统的其他儿子是否她所生。萧詧和蔡夫人的侄子蔡大寶关系很好，而龔氏家族的外戚不显，也没有和萧詧亲近的记载。 549年，侯景之乱，侯景攻克南梁都城建康，南梁大乱，诸王互相攻打。岳阳王萧詧率军攻打他叔叔湘东王萧绎，救援他正被萧绎围攻的二哥河东王蕭譽。他离开襄阳时，襄阳由蔡大寶和龔保林（可见其不称岳阳王太妃）留守。萧詧的部将杜岸被萧绎诱降后请求以五百骑攻打襄阳，被蔡、龚登陴闭门拒战守住，投靠在广平的兄长南阳太守。萧詧夜间撤军回城，龚保林不知其已战败，以为也是敌军，等天亮了见到了他，才放他入城。萧詧派尹正、薛晖等人攻打广平，俘虏杜岸、杜𪩘和他们的家人，在襄阳城北门斩首。龚保林在众人面前数落杜岸，杜岸说：“老婢叫自己的儿子杀叔叔，是枉杀忠良。”萧詧灭杜氏一族。 萧詧为防萧绎攻打而投靠西魏，被其立为梁王。 555年，西魏派大将于谨率军攻克江陵，杀死梁元帝萧绎，立萧詧为（西）梁皇帝（梁宣帝）。萧詧其父萧统为昭明皇帝，庙号高宗，蔡夫人为昭德皇后。尊母亲为皇太后。562年，萧詧去世，其子萧岿继位，尊龔太后为太皇太后，三个月后，龔太后去世。 (zh)
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