Yuan · Empress and Consort

Zhenge 真哥

First attested AD 1307; died AD 1327

Passages: 6
Chapters: 3
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhenge was an empress and Consort.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Posthumous name	Empress Xuanci Huisheng	宣慈惠聖皇后

Life and dates

Death

AD 1327 泰定四年十一月崩
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 107

Attested activity

AD 1307 to AD 1311 武宗
Directly stated · History of Yuan 118, passage 22
AD 1327 泰定四年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 24
AD 1310 至大三年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 24
AD 1310 至大三年四月，冊為皇后
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 99

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Kin of Sugabala (速哥失裏)
cousin 從妹
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 108
Child of Bongbular (迸不剌)
daughter 女
Directly stated · History of Yuan 118, passage 22; History of Yuan 114, passage 98
Spouse of Wuzong (武宗)
empress 皇后 · Primary marriage
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passages 98-99
Spouse of Wuzong (武宗)
empress 皇后
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 24
Spouse of Wuzong (武宗)
empress 皇后 · Primary marriage
Directly stated · History of Yuan 118, passage 22
Kin of Boluotiemuer (孛羅帖木兒)
nephew 侄
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 199
Sibling of Sugeshili (速哥失里)
younger sister 妹 · Uncertain siblings
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 24

Key source chapters

Origins and identity

Ethnicity Kongirat 弘吉列氏
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 24
Clan Hongjila 弘吉剌氏
Directly stated · History of Yuan 118, passage 27

Career and standing

empress 皇后
AD 1310 至大三年四月 · Enfeoffed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 114, passage 99
Empress Xuanci Huisheng 宣慈惠聖皇后
Posthumously titled
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 24
Enregistered
AD 1310 至大三年 · Empress
Directly stated · History of Yuan 106, passage 24

Places and affiliations

Polity Id yuan · Relation Associated with
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 106, passage 24

References in the histories

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

真哥皇后（弘吉列氏，至大三年冊為皇后。泰定四年上尊諡曰宣慈惠聖皇后。）速哥失里皇后（真哥妹也。）完者歹皇后妃子亦乞列氏（明宗母也，天曆二年追諡仁獻章聖皇后。）妃子唐兀氏（文宗母也，天曆二年追諡文獻昭聖皇后。） Empress Zhenge (Kongirat; enregistered as empress in 1310; posthumously titled Empress Xuanci Huisheng in 1327). Empress Sugeshili (Zhenge's younger sister). Empress Wanzhedai. Consort Yiqiliesi (Mingzong's mother; posthumously titled Empress Renxian Zhangsheng in 1329). Consort Tangwu (Wenzong's mother; posthumously titled Empress Wenxian Zhaosheng in 1329).

History of Yuan, Chapter 114Volume 114 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 · 4 passages

武宗宣慈惠聖皇后，名真哥，弘吉剌氏，脫憐子迸不剌之女。 Wuzong's Empress Xuanci Huisheng was named Zhenge, of the Kongirat clan and daughter of Bongbular, son of Tolian.

泰定四年十一月崩，上尊謚曰宣慈惠聖皇后，升祔武宗廟。 In the eleventh month of Taiding 4 she died. She was given the posthumous title Empress Xuanci Huisheng, and her tablet was placed beside Wuzong in the ancestral temple.

速哥失裏皇后，按陳哈兒只之女、真哥皇后之從妹也。 Empress Sugabala was the daughter of Ochen Harqishi and a cousin of Empress Zhenge.

伯顏忽都皇后，弘吉剌氏，宣慈惠聖皇后真哥侄毓德王孛羅帖木兒之女也。 Empress Bayan Qudu was of the Kongirat clan and daughter of Prince Yude Boluotiemuer, nephew of Empress Xuanci Huisheng Zhenge.

History of Yuan, Chapter 118Volume 118 Biographies 5: Texuechan, Beitu, Alawusitijihuli · 1 passage

武宗宣慈惠聖皇后諱真哥，脫憐子迸不剌之女； Wuzong's Kind, Merciful, and Sagely Empress Zhenge was Tuolian's son Bengbula's daughter;