Yuan · Empress Dowager

Budashili 卜答失里

Died AD 1340

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Overview

The translated histories identify Budashili as a consort, royal family member, and ruler. This record brings together 1 passage from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodYuan

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Budashili 卜答失里 Budashili
Personal Budashili 卜答失里
Descriptive kinship Daughter of Princess of Lu Sangge Laji 魯國公主桑哥剌吉女
Title Empress Budashili 卜答失里皇后
Surname Kongirat 弘吉剌氏

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Female

Roles

  • Consort
  • Royal Family Member
  • Ruler

Life and dates

Death

  • Place: place of exile / 徙所 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元六年 · Western Year: AD 1340
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0033

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 元統元年 · Western Year: AD 1333
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0033
  • Source Date: Text: 天曆二年 · Western Year: AD 1329
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0033
  • Source Date: Text: 天曆元年 · Western Year: AD 1328
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0033
  • Source Date: Text: 至元六年 · Western Year: AD 1340
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0033
  • Source Date: Text: 至順三年 · Western Year: AD 1332
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0033

Family

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  • Child of Sangge Laji (桑哥剌吉)
    Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: child · Object Role: parent
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: child
  • Spouse of Tugh Temür (圖帖睦爾)
    Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: active

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Status: empress · Action: established · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天曆元年 · Western Year: AD 1328
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0033
  • Status: grand-empress-dowager · Action: honored-as · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元統元年 · Western Year: AD 1333
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0033
  • Status: empress-dowager · Action: honored-as · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至順三年 · Western Year: AD 1332
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0033
  • Status: grand-empress-dowager · Action: stripped · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元六年 · Western Year: AD 1340
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0033

Places and affiliations

  • Polity Id: yuan · Relation: associated-with
    Strongly inferred · yuanshi:106:s0033
  • Place: Dong'an Prefecture / 東安州 · Relation: exiled-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元六年 · Western Year: AD 1340
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0033

Events and relationships

  • Kind: ritual · Role: recipient · Action: invested-with-seal · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天曆二年 · Western Year: AD 1329
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0033
  • Kind: political · Role: regent · Action: ruled-from-court · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至順三年 · Western Year: AD 1332
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0033

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 106Volume 106 Tables 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage
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卜答失里皇后 （弘吉剌氏，魯國公主桑哥（吉剌）剌吉女也。天曆元年立為皇后，二年授冊寶，至順三年尊為皇太后，臨朝稱制，元統元年又尊為太皇太后，仍稱制。至元六年黜太皇太后之號，徙東安州，卒徙所。） Empress Budashili (Kongirat, daughter of Princess of Lu Sangge Laji; made empress in 1328 and invested in 1329; in 1332 raised to Empress Dowager and ruled from court; in 1333 further elevated to Grand Empress Dowager while retaining regency; in 1340 stripped of the grand empress dowager title, exiled to Dong'an, and died in banishment).