Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Consort

Lady Wang 王氏

Attested AD 548 - AD 585

Passages: 5
Chapters: 3
Histories: 1

Overview

Lady Wang was a consort.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 582 叔陵之叛後
Directly stated · Book of Chen 36, passage 125
AD 566 天康元年秋七月丁酉
Directly stated · Book of Chen 4, passage 27
AD 548 to AD 585 太清至至德
Directly stated · Book of Chen 32, passages 74, 87

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Chen Bogu (陳伯固)
birth mother 所生 · maternal line
Directly stated · Book of Chen 36, passage 125
Sibling of Wang Yun (王筠)
brother 兄 · Full siblings · maternal line
Strongly inferred · Book of Chen 32, passage 68
Spouse of Chen Bozong (陳伯宗)
consort 妃
Directly stated · Book of Chen 4, passage 27
Parent of Xie Zhen (謝貞)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Chen 32, passage 67
Parent of Chen Zhize (陳至澤)
mother 母 · Uncertain parentage
Strongly inferred · Book of Chen 4, passages 27, 51

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Empress 皇后
AD 566 天康元年秋七月丁酉 · Established
Directly stated · Book of Chen 4, passage 27

Places and affiliations

Chen 陳
Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Chen 4, passage 27

Learning and skills

Belief Buddhism 出家 · Relation Took tonsure · At Xuaming Temple 宣明寺
Directly stated · Book of Chen 32, passage 74

References in the histories

Book of Chen, Chapter 4Volume 4: Emperor Fei · 1 passage

秋七月丁酉，[4]立妃王氏為皇后。 On dingyou day in the seventh month of autumn, Lady Wang was made empress.

Book of Chen, Chapter 32Volume 32: Filial Piety · 3 passages

母王氏，授貞論語、孝經，讀訖便誦。 His mother Lady Wang taught Zhen the Analects and the Classic of Filial Piety; when he finished reading he could recite them.

太清之亂，親屬散亡，貞於江陵陷沒，暠逃難番禺，貞母出家於宣明寺。 In the turmoil of Taiqing kin scattered. Zhen was caught in Jiangling's fall; Hao fled to Panyu, and Zhen's mother took the tonsure at Xuaming Temple.

及高祖受禪，暠還鄉里，供養貞母，將二十年。 When the Founder received the abdication, Hao returned to his home district and supported Zhen's mother for nearly twenty years.

Book of Chen, Chapter 36Volume 36: Chen Shuling, Prince of Shixing; Chen Bogu, Prince of Xin'an · 1 passage

但童孺靡識，兼預葭莩，寘之甸人，良以惻憫，及伯固所生王氏，[4]可並特宥為庶人。」 Yet the children know nothing and share the family tie; to set them among common folk is true compassion; and Wang, who bore Bogu, [4] may both be specially pardoned as commoners."