Yuan · Primary Consort

Shilian Dali 失憐答里

Attested AD 1271 - AD 1368

Passages: 5
Chapters: 3
Histories: 1

Overview

Shilian Dali was a Primary Consort.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	Empress Zhenci Jingyi	貞慈靜懿皇后

Life and dates

Death

Died young · 早薨
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 23

Attested activity

AD 1299 大德三年十月，立為后
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 277
AD 1271 to AD 1368 失憐答里
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 109, passage 38
AD 1308 至大元年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 23

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Deshou (德壽)
bore 生
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 278
Child of Woluochen (斡羅陳)
daughter 女
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 276
Spouse of Chengzong (成宗)
empress 皇后 · Primary marriage
primary consort 元妃
Sources vary in certainty · History of Yuan 114, passages 276-277; History of Yuan 106, passage 23

Key source chapters

Origins and identity

Ethnicity Kongirat 弘吉列氏
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 23

Career and standing

empress 后
AD 1299 大德三年十月 · Appointed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 277
Empress Zhenci Jingyi 貞慈靜懿皇后
Posthumously titled
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 23

Places and affiliations

Polity Id yuan · Relation Associated with
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 106, passage 23; History of Yuan 109, passage 38

Events and relationships

配享成廟
AD 1308 至大元年 · Ritual · Enshrined · With Chengzong (成宗)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 23

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · History of Yuan 109, passage 38

References in the histories

History of Yuan, Chapter 106Volume 106 Tables 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage

卜魯罕皇后（伯岳吾氏，勳臣普化之孫，駙馬脫里忽思之女。元貞初立為皇后，大德三年授冊寶。十一年帝崩，武宗立，廢后，徙東安州，尋賜死。成宗晚年多疾，后居中用事，而能信任相臣哈剌哈孫，以卒成大德之治，識者猶有取焉。）失憐答里元妃（弘吉列氏，早薨。至大元年追尊諡曰貞慈靜懿皇后，配享成廟。）乞里吉忽帖尼皇后 Empress Buluhan (Baiyuewu, granddaughter of the meritorious minister Puhua and daughter of the imperial son-in-law Telihusi; made empress at the start of Yuanzhen and invested in 1299; when Temür died in 1307 Külüg deposed her, exiled her to Dong'an, and soon had her executed. Though she dominated the inner court during Temür's late illnesses, she trusted the chief minister Harqasun and helped bring the Dade reign to a stable close—a point critics still acknowledged). Primary Consort Shilian Dali (Kongirat; died young; posthumously titled Empress Zhenci Jingyi in 1308 and enshrined at Chengzong's temple). Empress Qilijihutieni.

History of Yuan, Chapter 109Volume 109 Tables 4: Princesses · 1 passage

完者台公主，適永寧王卯澤。英壽大長公主妥（安）妥輝，世祖孫女也。壽寧大長公主，顯宗女，泰定皇帝伯姊也。明慧貞懿大長公主不答昔你，明宗之女。 □□公主，適合納那顏孫奔忒古兒駙馬。買買公主。阿剌歹公主。木答里公主。雪雪的斤公主。阿失禿公主。失憐答里公主。 Princess Wanzhetai married Maozhe, King of Yongning. Grand Princess Yingshou Tuohui was also a granddaughter of Kublai. Grand Princess Shouning, daughter of Manggala, was the paternal aunt of Emperor Taiding. Grand Princess Minghui Zhenyi Budaxini was a daughter of Qoshila. A princess name unreadable in source married Henanayan's grandson Consort Benteguer. Princess Maimai. Princess Aladai. Princess Mudali. Princess Xuexuedejin. Princess Ashitu. Princess Shiliandali.

History of Yuan, Chapter 114Volume 114 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 · 3 passages

成宗貞慈靜懿皇后，名失憐答里，弘吉剌氏，斡羅陳之女也。 Chengzong's Empress Zhenci Jingyi was Shiliandali, of the Kongirat clan and daughter of Woluochen.

武宗至大三年十月，追尊諡貞慈靜懿皇后，其冊文曰：「宗祧定位，象天地之有陰陽； In the tenth month of Zhida 3 Wuzong posthumously honored her as Empress Zhenci Jingyi. The enfeoffment text read: "The ancestral line is set in place, like heaven and earth having yin and yang;

謹遣某官某，上尊諡曰貞慈靜懿皇后，升祔於成宗皇帝殿室。 We respectfully send an official to bestow the honorific posthumous title Empress Zhenci Jingyi and elevate her tablet to join Chengzong's temple chamber.