Yuan · Empress

Chabi 察必

Died AD 1281

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Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Chabi as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 3 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodYuan

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Chabi 察必 Chabi
Personal Chabi 察必
Descriptive kinship Daughter of Anchannayan 按嗔那顏女
Title empress 后
Title Empress Chabi 察必皇后
Posthumous Empress Zhaorui Shunsheng 昭睿順聖皇后
Title Empress Zhenyi Zhaoshun Tianrui Wenguang Ying 貞懿昭順天睿文光應皇后
Surname Kongirat 弘吉列氏

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Female

Roles

  • Consort
  • Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元十八年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 18 · Western Year: AD 1281
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0022

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 至元十年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 1273
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0022
  • Source Date: Text: 至元十八年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 18 · Western Year: AD 1281
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0022
  • Source Date: Text: 至元二年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1265
    Strongly inferred · yuanshi:116:s0035, yuanshi:116:s0003
  • Source Date: Text: 至元三十一年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 31 · Western Year: AD 1294
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0022
  • Source Date: Text: 中統初 · Western Year: AD 1260
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0022

Family

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  • Child of Anchannayan (按陳)
    Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: child · Object Role: parent
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: child
  • Spouse of Emperor Shizu (世祖)
    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
  • Parent of Zhenjin (Yuzong) (裕宗真金)
    Kinship Term: inner palace / 中宮 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Title: Empress Zhaorui Shunsheng / 昭睿順聖皇后 · Action: posthumously-titled
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0022
  • Title: Empress Zhenyi Zhaoshun Tianrui Wenguang Ying / 貞懿昭順天睿文光應皇后 · Action: received
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0022
  • Status: empress · Action: established · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中統初 · Western Year: AD 1260
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0022

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

  • Kind: domestic · Role: participant · Action: deliberated-crown-princess
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0031
  • Kind: ritual · Role: recipient · Action: invested-with-seal · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元十年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 1273
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0022

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: intelligent and politically effective in Zhiyuan governance · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0022

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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帖古倫大皇后 右大斡耳朵 察必皇后 （弘吉列氏，魯忠武王按嗔那顏女也。中統初立為皇后，至元十年授冊寶，尋又上尊號曰貞懿昭順天睿文光應皇后。十八年崩，三十一年上尊諡曰昭睿順聖皇后。后性明敏，達於事機，至元之政，左右彌縫，當時以為蓋有力焉。） 南必皇后 （弘吉列氏。至元二十年納為皇后，時世祖春秋高，后頗預政，相臣常不得見帝，輒因后奏事焉。） 右第二斡耳朵 塔剌海皇后 奴罕皇后 右第三斡耳朵 伯要兀真皇后 闊闊倫皇后 右第四斡耳朵 八八罕妃子 右見歲賜錄，不知所守斡耳朵。 速哥答（思）里皇后 （泰定三年詔守世祖斡耳朵。） 撒不忽妃子 Great Empress Tegulün. Right Great Orda: Empress Chabi (Kongirat, daughter of the loyal and martial King Anchannayan of Lu; made empress at the start of the Zhongtong era, invested with seal and regalia in 1273, and soon given the honorific Empress Zhenyi Zhaoshun Tianrui Wenguang Ying; she died in 1281 and was posthumously titled Empress Zhaorui Shunsheng in 1294. Intelligent and politically astute, she was widely thought to have significantly shaped Zhiyuan-era governance). Empress Nanbi (Kongirat; taken as empress in 1283 when Kublai was elderly; she often intervened in government, and ministers who could not reach the emperor would report through her). Right Second Orda: Empress Talahai; Empress Nuhan. Right Third Orda: Empress Boyaowuzhen; Empress Kuokuolun. Right Fourth Orda: Consort Babuhan (listed in the annual grant register but with no orda recorded). Empress Sugedali (in 1326 ordered by edict to maintain Kublai's orda). Consort Sabuhu.
History of Yuan, Chapter 116Volume 116 Biographies 3: Empresses and Consorts 2 · 2 passages
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