Empress Gao (Chinese: 高皇后, personal name unknown) was an empress of the Xianbei-led Chinese Eastern Wei dynasty.
[2] He created the former Emperor Xiaojing the Prince of Zhongshan, and created the former Empress Gao the Princess Taiyuan, and she therefore carried double titles.
Despite her precautions, however, she could not prevent his death, as around the new year 552, Emperor Wenxuan invited her to the palace for a feast, and then, as she was attending the feast, he sent assassins to force the Prince of Zhongshan and his three sons to drink poisoned wine.
Later in 552, Emperor Wenxuan married the Princess Taiyuan to one of his officials, Yang Yin.
That was the last reference to her in history, and it is not known whether she survived to 560, when Yang was killed by another brother of hers, Gao Yan the Prince of Changshan in a power struggle.