Yuan · Empress and Consort

Nanbi 南必

Attested AD 1283 - AD 1283

Passages: 2
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Nanbi was an empress and Consort.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1283 至元二十年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 22
AD 1283 至元二十年，納為皇后
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 82

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Xiantong (仙童)
daughter 女
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 81
Spouse of Emperor Shizu (世祖)
empress 皇后
empress 皇后 · Primary marriage
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 22; History of Yuan 114, passage 82
Parent of Temürchik (鐵蔑赤)
son 子
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 84

Kinship Role sons · Count 1
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 84

Key source chapters

Origins and identity

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

Career and standing

empress 皇后
AD 1283 至元二十年 · Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 82
Taken as
AD 1283 至元二十年 · 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

Events and relationships

Intervened in government
AD 1283 至元二十年 · Political · Participant
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

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 114Volume 114 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 · 1 passage

南必皇后，弘吉剌氏，納陳孫仙童之女也。 Empress Nanbi, of the Kongirat clan, was the daughter of Xiantong, grandson of Nachin.