Yuan · Empress Dowager

Bolan Yeqiechi 伯藍也怯赤

First attested AD 1294; died AD 1300

Passages: 12
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Bolan Yeqiechi was an empress Dowager.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	Empress Huiren Yusheng	徽仁裕聖皇后
Alternate name	Kokejin	闊闊真

Life and dates

Death

AD 1300 大德四年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 40
AD 1300 大德四年二月
At buried beside former imperial tombs 祔葬先陵
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passage 64

Attested activity

AD 1294 至元三十一年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 40
AD 1300 大德四年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 40
AD 1300 大德四年二月
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passage 64

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Darmabala (順宗答剌麻八剌)
bore 生
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passage 22
Parent of Chengzong (成宗)
bore 生
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passage 22
Spouse of Zhenjin (Yuzong) (裕宗真金)
consort 妃子
empress 皇后 · Primary marriage
Sources vary in certainty · History of Yuan 106, passage 40; History of Yuan 116, passages 22, 33
Sibling of Younger brother of Empress Huiren Yusheng
younger brother 弟
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passage 61

Kinship Role elder brothers · Count 2 · 诸兄 · Count Precision minimum
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passage 24
Kinship Role parents · Count 2 · parents mentioned as away · Count Precision minimum
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passage 24

Key source chapters

Origins and identity

Ethnicity Kongirat 弘吉列氏
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 40
Hongjira 弘吉剌氏
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passage 22

Career and standing

Empress Huiren Yusheng 徽仁裕聖皇后
AD 1310 至大三年十月 · Posthumously augmented
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passage 65
Empress Yusheng 裕聖皇后
AD 1300 大德四年二月 · Posthumously titled
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passage 64
Empress Huiren Yusheng 徽仁裕聖皇后
Posthumously titled
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 40
Became
Crown princess · With Zhenjin (Yuzong) (裕宗真金)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passage 33
Honored as
AD 1294 至元三十一年 · Empress dowager
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 40
Honored as
AD 1294 即皇帝位 · Empress dowager
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 116, passage 42

Places and affiliations

Polity Id yuan · Relation Associated with
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 106, passage 40
Polity Id yuan · Relation Associated with
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passage 22

Works and attributed material

Investiture document · Honoree · Direct quotation
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passages 42-57
Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passages 24, 26-27, 38, 59, 61-62

Events and relationships

Handed jade seal
Political · Actor · With Chengzong (成宗)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passage 41
Ordered replacement of tribute receiving officials
Administrative · Actor
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passage 60

Assessments and attributes

Assessment foresight admired · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passage 63
Item brocaded gold sleeping mat 織金臥褥 · Relation Used
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passages 36, 38-39

References in the histories

Search passages

History

12 passages

History of Yuan, Chapter 106Volume 106 Tables 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage

伯藍也怯赤妃子（弘吉列氏。至元三十一年尊為皇太后，大德四年崩，諡曰徽仁裕聖皇后。）安真迷失妃子 Consort Bolan Yeqiechi (Kongirat; honored as Empress Dowager in 1294; died in 1300 and was posthumously titled Empress Huiren Yusheng). Consort Anzhenmishi.

History of Yuan, Chapter 116Volume 116 Biographies 3: Empresses and Consorts 2 · 11 passages

裕宗徽仁裕聖皇后伯藍也怯赤，一名闊闊真，弘吉剌氏，生順宗、成宗。 Empress Huiren Yusheng of Emperor Yuzong Zhenjin was Bo'alaije'u, also called Kokejin, of the Hongjira clan. She bore Darmabala and Temür, who became Emperors Shunzong and Chengzong.

后性孝謹，善事中宮，世祖每稱之為賢德媳婦。 The consort was by nature filial and careful and good at serving the inner palace. Kublai always called her a worthy and virtuous daughter-in-law.

后跪答曰：「常時不曾敢用，今為太子病，恐有濕氣，因用之。」 The consort knelt and answered, "At ordinary times I never dared use it. Now, because the crown prince is ill, I feared dampness and therefore used it."

即皇帝位，尊后為皇太后，冊文曰：「自家而國，治道必有所先； Upon assuming the imperial throne, he honored the empress as Empress Dowager. The investiture text read: "From the family to the state, the way of governance must have what comes first;

恭惟聖母，聖善本乎天資，靜專法乎地道。 Reverently considering the Holy Mother: sagely goodness is rooted in Heaven-given nature, and stillness and concentration follow the way of Earth.

謹奉冊寶，上尊稱曰皇太后。 We respectfully present the book and seal and raise the honorific title Empress Dowager.

后院官有受獻浙西田七百頃，籍於位下，太后曰：「我寡居婦人，衣食自有餘，況江南率土，皆國家所有，我曷敢私之。」 An official of the rear palace had received as tribute seven hundred qing of land in western Zhejiang, registered under her station. The Empress Dowager said, "I am a widow living alone — food and clothing are already more than enough. Moreover, all the lands south of the Yangtze belong to the state. How dare I make them private?"

后之弟欲因后求官，后語之曰：「若欲求官耶？ The empress's younger brother wished to seek office through her. The empress said to him, "If you wish to seek office,

其后，弟果被黜，人皆服后之先見。 Afterward his younger brother was indeed dismissed, and everyone admired the empress's foresight.

大德四年二月崩，祔葬先陵，謚曰裕聖皇后，升祔裕宗廟。 In the second month of 1300 she died, was buried beside the former imperial tombs, posthumously titled Empress Yusheng, and installed in the temple of Emperor Yuzong.

至大三年十月，又追尊謚曰徽仁裕聖皇后。 In the tenth month of 1310 the title was further raised to Empress Huiren Yusheng.