Five Dynasties · Grand Consort; birth mother of the Deposed Emperor

Lady An 安氏

Ān shì

First attested AD 946; died AD 948

Passages: 7
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Lady An was a Grand Consort; birth mother of the Deposed Emperor.

Life and dates

Death

At en route to Jianzhou 徙建州中途 · Date Source Date: Text: 天祿二年春二月 · Western Year: AD 948
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 86, passage 48
Illness · At en route to Jianzhou 中路
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 85, passage 119

Attested activity

AD 948 天祿二年春二月
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 86, passage 48
AD 949 漢乾祐二年
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 85, passage 119
AD 946 開運三年冬十月
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 85, passage 1

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Shi Chonggui (石重貴)
bore 生
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 86, passage 47
Spouse of Shi Jingtang (石敬瑭)
grand consort 太妃 · Secondary marriage
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 86, passages 44, 47
Kin of Shi Chonggui (石重貴)
Grand Imperial Consort 皇太妃
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 85, passages 1, 97

Key source chapters

Origins and identity

family background unknown
Negated true
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 86, passage 46

Career and standing

Grand Imperial Consort 皇太妃
Invested
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 85, passage 1
Grand Imperial Consort 皇太妃
Honored
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 86, passage 47

Places and affiliations

At northern Dai 代北
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 86, passage 46

Works and attributed material

Dying charge · Speaker · With Shi Chonggui (石重貴) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 86, passage 48

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 85Volume 85 Book of Later Jin 11: Emperor Shao 4 · 3 passages

開運三年冬十月甲子，正衙命使冊皇太妃安氏。 In winter of Kaiyun 3, on the jiazi day of the tenth month, imperial envoys in full court regalia were sent to invest Grand Imperial Consort Lady An.

癸卯，帝與皇太后李氏、皇太妃安氏、皇后馮氏、皇弟重睿、皇子延煦延寶俱北行，以宮嬪五十人、內官三十人、東西班五十人、醫官一人、控鶴官四人、禦廚七人、茶酒三人、儀鸞司三人、軍健二十人從行。 On guimao the emperor went north with Empress Dowager Li, Grand Imperial Consort An, Empress Feng, his brother Chongrui, and Princes Yanxu and Yanbao, attended by fifty palace women, thirty eunuchs, fifty court attendants, a physician, four Crane-Control officers, seven imperial cooks, three tea and wine servants, three from the Ceremonial Parasol bureau, and twenty guards.

行至中路，太妃安氏得疾而薨，乃焚之，載其燼骨而行。 On the way Grand Imperial Consort An fell ill and died; they cremated her and carried her ashes onward.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 86Volume 86 Book of Later Jin 12: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 4 passages

太妃安氏。 Grand Consort An.

〈（《文獻通考》：安太妃，代北人，不知其世家。 (From the Comprehensive Examination of Documents: Grand Consort An was a native of northern Dai; her family background is unknown.

生出帝，帝立，尊為皇太妃。 She bore the Deposed Emperor; when he took the throne, she was honored as Grand Imperial Consort.

《契丹國志》云：天祿二年春二月，徙晉侯、太后於建州，中途安太妃卒，遺命晉侯曰：「焚骨為灰，南向揚之，庶幾遺魂得返中國也。」）〉 The Khitan State Annals records that in the second month of spring of the second year of Tianlu, when the Marquis of Jin and the empress dowager were relocated to Jianzhou, Grand Consort An died en route; her dying charge to the Marquis of Jin was: "Burn my bones to ash and scatter them southward — perhaps my lingering soul may return to China.")〉