Empress Mingyi (明懿皇后)

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Mingyi as a consort. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Empress Mingyi	明懿皇后	Míngyì huánghòu
Posthumous name	Empress Mingyi	明懿皇后
Epithet	Holy Matriarch	聖姥

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · jinshi:032:s0024

Roles

Consort

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天會十四年八月 · Western Year: AD 1136
Explicit event contextual date · jinshi:032:s0012, jinshi:032:s0024

Family

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Spouse of Founder Emperor Jingyuan (始祖景元皇帝)
Kinship Term: consort / 后 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: active

Places and affiliations

Polity: Jin / 金 · Relation: associated-with
Strongly inferred · jinshi:032:s0036

References in the histories

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History of Jin, Chapter 32Volume 32 Treatises 13: Rites 5: Conferring of Posthumous Titles · 2 passages

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虞舜生馮，遷于負夏，太王避狄，邑此岐山，聖姥來歸，天原肇發。 As when Shun was born at Feng and moved to Fuxia, or when King Tai fled the Di and settled at Mount Qi—when the Holy Matriarch came into the clan, the heavenly origin of the house first unfolded.

謹按諡法，布義行剛曰'景'，主義行德曰'元'，保民耆艾曰'明'，溫柔聖善曰'懿'，請上皇九代祖尊諡曰景元皇帝，廟號始祖，妣曰明懿皇后。 According to the law of posthumous titles: 'jing' for spreading righteousness and acting with firmness, 'yuan' for upholding righteousness and practicing virtue, 'ming' for protecting the people and honoring the aged, 'yi' for gentle warmth and sagely goodness—we ask that the ninth-generation imperial ancestor receive the posthumous title Emperor Jingyuan, with the temple name Shizu, and that his consort be titled Empress Mingyi.