Sui and Tang · Consort

Empress Wenyi 文懿皇后

Wényì Huánghòu

Attested AD 820 - AD 880

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Empress Wenyi was a consort.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 820 to AD 880 皇高祖妣崔氏
Strongly inferred · History of Song 106, passage 16

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Spouse of Xizu (僖祖)
consort 妣 · Primary marriage · Widowed
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passages 12, 16

Career and standing

Empress Wenyi 文懿皇后
AD 960 建隆元年 · Bestowed
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passages 16, 19

Events and relationships

Posthumous enshrinement
AD 960 建隆元年 · Ritual · Recipient
Directly stated · History of Song 106, passages 16, 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

皇高祖妣崔氏曰文懿皇后； the great-great-grandmother, Lady Cui, as Empress Wenyi;

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.