Yuan · Empress and Consort

Daji 答己

Died AD 1322

Passages
26
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Daji as a consort, royal family member, and ruler. This record brings together 26 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Daji 答己 Daji
Title Consort Daji 答己妃子
Personal Daji 答己
Title Empress Dowager 皇太后
Title Empress Dowager Yitian Xingsheng Ciren Zhaoyi Shouyuan 儀天興聖慈仁昭懿壽元皇太后
Title Empress Dowager Yitian Xingsheng Ciren Zhaoyi Shouyuan Quande Taining Fuqing 儀天興聖慈仁昭懿壽元全德泰寧福慶皇太后
Posthumous Empress Zhaoxian Yuansheng 昭獻元聖皇后
Title Grand Empress Dowager 太皇太后
Title Grand Empress Dowager Yitian Xingsheng Ciren Zhaoyi Shouyuan Quande Taining Fuqing Huiwen Chongyou 儀天興聖慈仁昭懿壽元全德泰寧福慶徽文崇佑太皇太后
Clan Hongjira 弘吉剌氏
Surname Kongirat 弘吉列氏

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Female

Roles

  • Consort
  • Royal Family Member
  • Ruler

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至治三年 · Western Year: AD 1322
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0046
  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至治三年二月 · Western Year: AD 1323
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0120

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 大德九年 · Western Year: AD 1305
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:116:s0068
  • Source Date: Text: 大德十一年 · Western Year: AD 1307
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0046
  • Source Date: Text: 大德十一年五月 · Western Year: AD 1307
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0084
  • Source Date: Text: 大德十一年正月 · Western Year: AD 1307
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:116:s0070, yuanshi:116:s0071
  • Source Date: Text: 大德十年十二月 · Western Year: AD 1306
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0069
  • Source Date: Text: 延祐七年 · Western Year: AD 1320
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0046
  • Source Date: Text: 延祐七年十二月 · Western Year: AD 1320
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0097
  • Source Date: Text: 延祐二年 · Western Year: AD 1315
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0046
  • Source Date: Text: 延祐二年三月 · Western Year: AD 1315
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0096
  • Source Date: Text: 至大二年正月 · Western Year: AD 1309
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0089
  • Source Date: Text: 至大元年三月 · Western Year: AD 1308
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:116:s0088
  • Source Date: Text: 至治三年 · Western Year: AD 1322
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0046
  • Source Date: Text: 至治三年二月 · Western Year: AD 1323
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0120

Family

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  • Parent of Renzong (仁宗)
    Kinship Term: bore / 生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Wuzong (武宗)
    Kinship Term: bore / 生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Spouse of Darmabala (順宗答剌麻八剌)
    Kinship Term: consort / 妃 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband
    Kinship Term: consort / 妃子 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: active
  • Child of Qundutemür (渾都帖木兒)
    Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Title: Empress Zhaoxian Yuansheng / 昭獻元聖皇后 · Action: posthumously-titled
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0046
  • Title: Empress Dowager Yitian Xingsheng Ciren Zhaoyi Shouyuan Quande Taining Fuqing / 儀天興聖慈仁昭懿壽元全德泰寧福慶皇太后 · Action: received
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0046
  • Title: Weiwen Chongyou / 徽文崇祐 · Action: received
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0046
  • Status: empress-dowager · Action: honored-as · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大德十一年 · Western Year: AD 1307
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0046
  • Status: empress-dowager · Action: honored-as · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大德十一年五月 · Western Year: AD 1307
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0084
  • Status: grand-empress-dowager · Action: honored-as · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延祐七年 · Western Year: AD 1320
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0046
  • Status: grand-empress-dowager · Action: honored-as · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 延祐七年十二月 · Western Year: AD 1320
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0097

Places and affiliations

  • Polity Id: yuan · Relation: associated-with
    Strongly inferred · yuanshi:106:s0046
  • Polity Id: yuan · Relation: associated-with
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0066
  • Place: Huaizhou / 懷州 · Relation: exiled-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大德九年 · Western Year: AD 1305
  • Place: Huaizhou / 懷州 · Relation: arrived-at · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大德十年十二月 · Western Year: AD 1306
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0069
  • Place: Mount Wutai / 五臺山 · Relation: visited · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至大二年正月 · Western Year: AD 1309
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0089
  • Organization: Bureau of Imperial Governance context / Xingsheng Palace establishments / 興聖宮 · Relation: patron-of

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: did not restrain herself; debauchery grew; corrupted government through favorites · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0122
  • Assessment: intelligent but unrestrained; excesses deepened after taking the eastern court · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0046
  • Assessment: intelligent; assisted three reigns; taught palace women; personally did domestic work · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0121
  • Item: Palace of Sagely Inception / 興聖宮 · Relation: received
    Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0088

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 106Volume 106 Tables 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage
History of Yuan, Chapter 116Volume 116 Biographies 3: Empresses and Consorts 2 · 25 passages