Song, Liao, and Jin · Consort and Royal Family Member

Empress Guangxian 光獻皇后

Guāngxiàn huánghòu

Attested AD 1229 - AD 1309

Passages
4
Chapters
3
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Guangxian as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 4 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Empress Guangxian 光獻皇后 Guāngxiàn huánghòu
Personal Börte Chuju Zhen 孛兒台旭真 Boertai Xuzhen
Title Empress Dowager 太后 Tàihòu
Temple Empress Guangxian 光獻皇后 Guāngxiàn huánghòu
Posthumous Empress Guangxian 光獻皇后
Posthumous Empress Guangxian 光獻
Posthumous Empress Guangxian Yisheng 光獻翼聖皇后
Title Great Empress Dowager 太皇后
Title Guangxian 光獻
Surname Kongirat 弘吉烈氏
Descriptive kinship Mother of Ögedei

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Female

Roles

  • Consort
  • Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 至元二年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1265
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0014
  • Source Date: Text: 至元二年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1265
    Strongly inferred · yuanshi:116:s0011, yuanshi:116:s0003
  • Source Date: Text: 太宗即位前後 · Western Year: AD 1229
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0003
  • Source Date: Text: 至大二年 · Western Year: AD 1309
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0014

Family

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  • Spouse of Taizu (太祖)
    Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: formed
  • Spouse of Taizu (太祖)
    Kinship Term: great empress dowager / 太皇后 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: active
  • Parent of Tolui (拖雷)
    Kinship Term: Guangxian / 光獻 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Ögedei (窩闊台)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Kin of Sorghaghtani Beki (唆魯和帖尼)
    Kinship Term: served Guangxian / 逮事光獻 · Subject Role: daughter-in-law · Object Role: mother-in-law

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Place: Zhending households for bath revenue / 真定民戶湯沐 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年丙申 · Western Year: AD 1236
    Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0101
  • Title: Empress Guangxian Yisheng / 光獻翼聖皇后 · Action: posthumously-augmented
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0014
  • Title: Empress Guangxian / 光獻 · Action: posthumously-titled
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0014

Places and affiliations

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 2Volume 2 Annals 2: Taizong, Dingzong · 2 passages
History of Yuan, Chapter 106Volume 106 Tables 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage
孛兒台旭真太皇后 (弘吉烈氏,至元二年追諡光獻,至大二年加諡光獻翼聖皇后。) 忽魯渾皇后 闊里桀担皇后 脫忽思皇后 帖木倫皇后 亦憐真八剌皇后 不顏渾禿皇后 忽勝海妃子 右大斡耳朵 忽蘭皇后 哈兒八真皇后 亦乞剌真皇后 脫忽茶兒皇后 也真妃子 也里忽禿妃子 察真妃子 哈剌真妃子 右第二斡耳朵 也速皇后 忽魯哈剌皇后 阿失倫皇后 禿兒哈剌皇后 察兒皇后 阿昔迷失皇后 完者忽都皇后 渾魯忽歹妃子 忽魯灰妃子 剌伯妃子 右第三斡耳朵 也速干皇后 忽答罕皇后 哈答皇后 斡者忽思皇后 燕里皇后 禿干妃子 完者妃子 金蓮妃子 完者台妃子 奴倫妃子 卯真妃子 鎖郎哈妃子 右第四斡耳朵 八不別及妃子 右見歲賜錄,不知所守斡耳朵,故附于此。 Great Empress Dowager Börte Chuju Zhen (of the Kongirat clan; posthumously titled Empress Guangxian in 1265 and augmented to Empress Guangxian Yisheng in 1309). Empress Huluhun. Empress Kuolijiedan. Empress Tuohusi. Empress Temülün. Empress Yilianzhen Bala. Empress Buyanhuntu. Consort Hushenghai. Right Great Orda: Empress Hulan; Empress Ha'erbazhen; Empress Yiqiliezhen; Empress Tuohucha'er; Consorts Yezhen, Yelihutu, Chazhen, and Halazhen. Right Second Orda: Empress Yesu; Empress Huluhala; Empress Ashilun; Empress Tu'erhala; Empress Cha'er; Empress Aximishi; Empress Wanzhehudu; Consorts Hunluhuodai, Huluhui, and Labo. Right Third Orda: Empress Yesugan; Empress Hudahan; Empress Hada; Empress Wozhehusi; Empress Yanli; Consorts Tugan, Wanzhe, Jinlian, Wanzhetai, Nulun, Maozhen, and Suolangha. Right Fourth Orda: Consort Babieji. Listed in the annual grant register but with no orda recorded as her charge; she is therefore appended here.
History of Yuan, Chapter 116Volume 116 Biographies 3: Empresses and Consorts 2 · 1 passage