Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Family Member

Zhang Ke 張軻

Zhāng Kē

Attested AD 567 - AD 580

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhang Ke was a Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 567 to AD 580 轉養舅氏張軻家
Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 36, passage 191

Family

Kin of Empress Xiao (蕭皇后)
maternal uncle 舅 · maternal line · Through Mother of Empress Xiao (蕭皇后之母)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 36, passage 191
Sibling of Mother of Empress Xiao (蕭皇后之母)
sibling 兄弟 · Full siblings · maternal line
Strongly inferred · Book of Sui 36, passage 191

Events and relationships

Raised Empress Xiao
Personal · Guardian · With Empress Xiao (蕭皇后)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 36, passages 191-192

Assessments and attributes

very poor
Economic
Directly stated · Book of Sui 36, passage 192

References in the histories

Book of Sui, Chapter 36Volume 36 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 2 passages

未幾，岌夫妻俱死，轉養舅氏張軻家。 Before long both Ji and his wife died, and she was sent to be raised in the household of her uncle Zhang Ke.

然軻甚貧窶，后躬親勞苦。 Zhang Ke was very poor, and the future empress labored with her own hands.