Empress Guo (Ming)
Empress Guo (died 263), personal name unknown, formally known as Empress Mingyuan (明元皇后; literally: "The All-seeing and Discerning Empress"), was an empress of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. She was married to Cao Rui (Emperor Ming), the second emperor of Cao Wei; she was his third wife and second empress. What little is known about her appears to show that she was an intelligent woman who fought hard to try to prevent her empire from falling into the hands of the Sima clan (Sima Yi and his sons Sima Shi and Sima Zhao) during the reigns of her adopted son Cao Fang and his cousin Cao Mao, but was unable to stem the tide.
Read more about Empress Guo (Ming): Family Background and Marriage To Cao Rui, As Empress Dowager
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