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Princess Zhenyuan 真源長公主

Attested c. AD 836

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Princess Zhenyuan was a princess.

Life and dates

Attested activity

c. AD 836 開成初
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 162

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Emperor Wenzong of Tang (唐文宗)
princess 公主
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 172, passage 162
Spouse of Du Zhongli (杜中立)
married Princess Zhenyuan 尚真源長公主 · Marriage
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 166

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 162

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 172Volume 172 Biographies 97: Yu, Wang, Two Du's, Fan · 5 passages

貞元十四年，拜山南東道節度使。 In Zhenyuan year 14 he was made military governor of Shannan East Circuit.

從弟羔，貞元初及進士第，有至性。 His cousin Gao took the metropolitan degree early in the Zhenyuan reign and was distinguished by uncommon filial devotion.

開成初，文宗欲以真源、臨真二公主降士族，謂宰相曰：「民間脩婚姻，不計官品而上閥閱。 Early in Kaicheng, Wenzong meant to marry the Princesses Zhenyuan and Linzhen into great clans and told his chief ministers: "Common folk arranging marriages care nothing for office and everything for pedigree.

月中，遷光祿少卿、駙馬都尉，尚真源長公主。 Within the month he rose to Vice Director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices and Grand Military Attendant, taking the Princess of Zhenyuan in marriage.

貞元中，罷歸。 During the Zhenyuan era he was dismissed and returned home.