Yuan · Empress and Consort

Buluhan 卜魯罕

Died AD 1307

Passages
3
Chapters
3
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Buluhan as a consort, royal family member, and ruler. This record brings together 3 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodYuan

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Buluhan 卜魯罕 Buluhan
Surname Baiyuewu 伯岳吾氏
Personal Buluhan 卜魯罕
Personal Buluqan 卜魯罕
Personal name Buluqhan 卜魯罕 Buluhan
Title Empress Buluhan 卜魯罕皇后
Title Empress Buluqan 卜魯罕皇后
Title Empress Buluqhan 卜魯罕皇后

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Female

Roles

  • Consort
  • Royal Family Member
  • Ruler

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: execution by grant · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大德十一年 · Western Year: AD 1307
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0023

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 元貞初，立為皇后 · Western Year: AD 1295
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0086
  • Source Date: Text: 元貞初 · Western Year: AD 1295
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0023
  • Source Date: Text: 大德三年 · Western Year: AD 1299
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0023
  • Source Date: Text: 大德九年 · Western Year: AD 1305
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0068
  • Source Date: Text: 大德十一年 · Western Year: AD 1307
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0023

Family

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  • Kin of Puhua (普化)
    Kinship Term: granddaughter / 孫 · Generation Distance: 2
  • Child of Tolisi (脫裏思)
    Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
  • Child of Telihusi (脫里忽思)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: child
    Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: child · Object Role: parent
  • Spouse of Chengzong (成宗)
    Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband
    Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: active
    Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: empress / 皇后 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元貞初 · Western Year: AD 1295
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0086
  • Status: deposed · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大德十一年 · Western Year: AD 1307 · Authority Person Id: Wuzong (武宗)
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0023
  • Status: empress · Action: established · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元貞初 · Western Year: AD 1295
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0023
  • Label: ordered to die by grant / 賜死 · Action: executed · Authority Person Id: Wuzong (武宗) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大德十一年 · Western Year: AD 1307
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0023
  • Status: exile · Action: sent · Place: Dong'an Prefecture / 東安州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 出居東安州 · Western Year: AD 1307
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0097

Places and affiliations

  • Polity Id: yuan · Relation: associated-with
    Strongly inferred · yuanshi:106:s0023
  • Polity Id: yuan · Relation: associated-with
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0068
  • Place: Dong'an Prefecture / 東安州 · Relation: exiled-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大德十一年 · Western Year: AD 1307
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0023

Events and relationships

  • Kind: political · Role: participant · Action: held-palace-power · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 成宗晚年 · Western Year: AD 1307
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0023
  • Kind: political · Role: actor · Action: held-power-and-exiled-renzong-and-mother · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大德九年 · Western Year: AD 1305
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0068
  • Kind: ritual · Role: recipient · Action: invested-with-seal · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大德三年 · Western Year: AD 1299
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0023
  • Kind: political · Role: plotter · Action: plotted-to-enthrone · Other Person Id: Ananda (阿難答失裏) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明年，成宗崩 · Western Year: AD 1307
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0096
  • Relation: trusted · Person Id: Harqasun (哈剌哈孫)
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0023

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: though dominating the inner court during Chengzong's late illnesses, trusted Harqasun and helped complete Dade governance; discerning critics still found something to approve · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0023

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 114Volume 114 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 · 1 passage
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History of Yuan, Chapter 116Volume 116 Biographies 3: Empresses and Consorts 2 · 1 passage
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