Song, Liao, and Jin · Empress and Consort

Hudutai 忽都台

Died AD 1251

Passages: 4
Chapters: 3
Histories: 1

Overview

Hudutai was an empress and Consort.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	Empress Zhenjie	貞節皇后	Zhenjie Huanghou

Life and dates

Death

AD 1251 蚤崩
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 29

Attested activity

AD 1265 至元二年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 17
AD 1251 to AD 1259 憲宗朝
Directly stated · History of Yuan 118, passage 16
AD 1265 至元二年，追謚貞節皇后
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 30

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Kin of Anchannayan (按陳)
collateral granddaughter 從孫女 · paternal line · 2 generations
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 17
Child of Manggechen (忙哥陳)
daughter 女
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 29; History of Yuan 118, passage 16
Spouse of Xianzong (憲宗)
empress 皇后 · Primary marriage
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 29
Spouse of Möngke (蒙哥)
empress 皇后
empress 皇后 · Primary marriage
Sources vary in certainty · History of Yuan 106, passage 17; History of Yuan 118, passage 16
Sibling of Yesuer (也速兒)
younger sister 后妹 · Full siblings
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 29
Sibling of Yesu'er (也速兒)
younger sister 妹 · Uncertain siblings
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 17
Sibling of Yesu'er (也速兒)
younger sister 妹
Directly stated · History of Yuan 118, passage 16

Key source chapters

Origins and identity

Ethnicity Kongirat 弘吉剌氏
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 17
Clan Hongjila 弘吉剌氏
Directly stated · History of Yuan 118, passage 27

Career and standing

Empress Zhenjie 貞節皇后
Posthumously titled
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 17

Places and affiliations

Polity Id yuan · Relation Associated with
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 106, passage 17

References in the histories

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

火里差皇后（火魯剌部人。）忽都台皇后（弘吉剌氏，按陳從孫女，至元二年追諡貞節皇后。）也速兒皇后（貞節妹也。）出卑三皇后（歲己未，從憲宗南伐，七月憲宗崩，九月八日后亦薨于六盤。）明里忽都魯皇后（泰定三年詔守班禿營帳。） Empress Huolicha (of the Huolula tribe). Empress Hudutai (Kongirat, a collateral granddaughter of Anchannayan; posthumously titled Empress Zhenjie in 1265). Empress Yesu'er (Zhenjie's younger sister). Third Empress Chubei (in 1259, while accompanying Möngke on the southern campaign, the emperor died in the seventh month and the empress died at Liupan on the ninth month's eighth day). Empress Minglihudulu (in 1326 ordered by edict to maintain Bantu's camp establishment).

History of Yuan, Chapter 114Volume 114 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 · 2 passages

憲宗貞節皇后，名忽都臺，弘吉剌氏，特薛禪孫忙哥陳之女也，蚤崩，后妹也速兒繼為妃。 Xianzong's Empress Zhenjie was named Qututai, of the Kongirat clan and daughter of Manggechen, grandson of Dei Sechen; she died young, and her younger sister Yesuer succeeded as consort.

至元二年，追謚貞節皇后，升祔憲宗廟。 In Zhiyuan 2 she was posthumously enfeoffed as Empress Zhenjie and her tablet was elevated to join Xianzong in the ancestral temple.

History of Yuan, Chapter 118Volume 118 Biographies 5: Texuechan, Beitu, Alawusitijihuli · 1 passage

凡其女之為後者，自光獻翼聖皇后以降，憲宗貞節皇后諱忽都臺，及後妹也速兒，皆按陳從孫忙哥陳之女。 Among the women who became empresses—beginning with the Radiant and Assisting Sagely Empress—Xianzong's Chaste and Constant Empress Hudutai and her sister Yesu'er were daughters of Anchannayan's collateral descendant Manggechen.