Chabi (察必) | 24 Histories

Overview

Chabi was an empress and Consort.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	Empress Zhaorui Shunsheng	昭睿順聖皇后

Life and dates

Death

AD 1281 至元十八年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 22

Attested activity

AD 1273 至元十年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 22
AD 1281 至元十八年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 22
AD 1265 至元二年
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 116, passages 3, 35
AD 1260 中統初
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 22

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Anchannayan (按陳)
daughter 女
father 父
Sources vary in certainty · History of Yuan 106, passage 22
Spouse of Emperor Shizu (世祖)
empress 皇后 · Primary marriage
empress 皇后
Sources vary in certainty · History of Yuan 116, passage 35; History of Yuan 106, passage 22
Parent of Zhenjin (Yuzong) (裕宗真金)
inner palace 中宮
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 116, passages 34-35

Key source chapters

Origins and identity

Ethnicity Kongirat 弘吉列氏
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 22

Career and standing

Empress Zhaorui Shunsheng 昭睿順聖皇后
Posthumously titled
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 22
Empress Zhenyi Zhaoshun Tianrui Wenguang Ying 貞懿昭順天睿文光應皇后
Received
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 22
Established
AD 1260 中統初 · Empress
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 22

Places and affiliations

Polity Id yuan · Relation Associated with
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 106, passage 22
Polity Id yuan · Relation Associated with
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passage 35

Events and relationships

Deliberated crown princess
Domestic · Participant
Directly stated · History of Yuan 116, passage 31
Invested with seal
AD 1273 至元十年 · Ritual · Recipient
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 22

Assessments and attributes

Assessment intelligent and politically effective in Zhiyuan governance · Mode named-source-report
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 22

References in the histories

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

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帖古倫大皇后右大斡耳朵察必皇后（弘吉列氏，魯忠武王按嗔那顏女也。中統初立為皇后，至元十年授冊寶，尋又上尊號曰貞懿昭順天睿文光應皇后。十八年崩，三十一年上尊諡曰昭睿順聖皇后。后性明敏，達於事機，至元之政，左右彌縫，當時以為蓋有力焉。）南必皇后（弘吉列氏。至元二十年納為皇后，時世祖春秋高，后頗預政，相臣常不得見帝，輒因后奏事焉。）右第二斡耳朵塔剌海皇后奴罕皇后右第三斡耳朵伯要兀真皇后闊闊倫皇后右第四斡耳朵八八罕妃子右見歲賜錄，不知所守斡耳朵。速哥答（思）里皇后（泰定三年詔守世祖斡耳朵。）撒不忽妃子 Great Empress Tegulün. Right Great Orda: Empress Chabi (Kongirat, daughter of the loyal and martial King Anchannayan of Lu; made empress at the start of the Zhongtong era, invested with seal and regalia in 1273, and soon given the honorific Empress Zhenyi Zhaoshun Tianrui Wenguang Ying; she died in 1281 and was posthumously titled Empress Zhaorui Shunsheng in 1294. Intelligent and politically astute, she was widely thought to have significantly shaped Zhiyuan-era governance). Empress Nanbi (Kongirat; taken as empress in 1283 when Kublai was elderly; she often intervened in government, and ministers who could not reach the emperor would report through her). Right Second Orda: Empress Talahai; Empress Nuhan. Right Third Orda: Empress Boyaowuzhen; Empress Kuokuolun. Right Fourth Orda: Consort Babuhan (listed in the annual grant register but with no orda recorded). Empress Sugedali (in 1326 ordered by edict to maintain Kublai's orda). Consort Sabuhu.

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

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后與諸臣謀擇太子妃，世祖俱不允。 Later the empress and the ministers deliberated on choosing a crown princess, but Kublai would not approve any of them.

侍昭睿順聖皇后，不離左右，至混廁所用紙，亦以面擦，令柔軟以進。 She attended Empress Zhaorui Shunsheng and never left her side. Even the paper used in the privy she rubbed with her face to soften before presenting it.