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Lady Zhang was a consort.
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Book of Han, Chapter 91Volume 80: The Six Sons of Emperors Xuan and Yuan · 6 passages
許皇后生孝元帝，張婕妤生淮陽憲王欽，衛婕妤生楚孝王囂，公孫婕妤生東平思王宇，戎婕妤生中山哀王竟。
Empress Xu gave birth to Emperor Yuan. Lady Zhang the Honored Lady bore Prince Xian of Huaiyang, Qin; Lady Wei the Honored Lady bore Prince Xiao of Chu, Ao; Lady Gongsun the Honored Lady bore Prince Si of Dongping, Yu; and Lady Rong the Honored Lady bore Prince Ai of Zhongshan, Jing.
淮陽憲王欽，元康三年立，母張婕妤有寵於宣帝。
Prince Xian of Huaiyang, Qin, was established in the third year of Yuankang (63 BCE). His mother, Lady Zhang the Honored Lady, enjoyed Emperor Xuan’s favor.
霍皇后廢後，上欲立張婕妤為后。
After Empress Huo was cast aside, the emperor meant to raise Lady Zhang to empress.
後無寵，希御見，唯張婕妤最幸。
The new empress soon lost his attention and seldom saw him; Lady Zhang alone remained his favorite.
常有意欲立張婕妤與憲王，然用太子起於微細，上少依倚許氏，及即位而許后以殺死，太子蚤失母，故弗忍也。
He often toyed with making Lady Zhang and the prince his succession, yet the crown prince had come up from nothing: as a young man the emperor had leaned on the Xu clan, and after his accession Empress Xu had been executed, leaving the boy motherless—so he could not bring himself to replace him.
時，張婕妤已卒，憲王有外祖母，舅張博兄弟三人歲至淮陽見親，輒受王賜。
By then Lady Zhang was dead. The prince still had kin on his mother’s side: each year his uncles Zhang Bo and his two brothers visited Huaiyang and went home laden with the king’s largesse.