Sui and Tang · Consort

Empress Huiming 惠明皇后

Huìmíng Huánghòu

Attested AD 850 - AD 910

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Empress Huiming was a consort.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 850 to AD 910 皇曾祖妣桑氏
Strongly inferred · History of Song 106, passage 17

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Spouse of Shunzu (順祖)
consort 妣 · Primary marriage · Widowed
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passages 13, 17

Career and standing

Empress Huiming 惠明皇后
AD 960 建隆元年 · Bestowed
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passages 17, 19

Events and relationships

Posthumous enshrinement
AD 960 建隆元年 · Ritual · Recipient
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passages 17, 19

Source notes

styled ancestral grandmother
AD 998 咸平元年 · Field ritual-address
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passage 29

References in the histories

History of Song, Chapter 106Volume 106 Treatises 59: Rites 9 · 2 passages

皇曾祖妣桑氏曰惠明皇后； the great-grandmother, Lady Sang, as Empress Huiming;

文懿、惠明、簡穆、昭憲皇后並稱祖妣，孝明、孝惠、孝章皇后並稱伯妣。 Empresses Wenyi, Huiming, Jianmu, and Zhaoxian are all styled ancestral grandmothers, while Empresses Xiaoming, Xiaohui, and Xiaozhang are styled elder uncles' consorts.