Yuan · Empress and Consort

Empress Wonjeonghodu (Ki) 完者忽都皇后奇氏

Wanzhehudu Huanghou Qi shi

Attested AD 1333 - AD 1368

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Chapters
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Histories
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Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Wonjeonghodu (Ki) as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 23 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodYuan

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Empress Wonjeonghodu (Ki) 完者忽都皇后奇氏 Wanzhehudu Huanghou Qi shi
Title empress 皇后
Title Empress Wonjeonghodu 完者忽都皇后 Wanzhehudu huanghou
Personal name Ki 奇氏 Qi shi
Title second empress 第二皇后
Clan or house Sukorghatas 肅良合氏 Sulianghe shi

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Female

Roles

  • Consort
  • Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Family

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  • Parent of Ayushiridara (愛猷識理達臘)
    Kinship Term: bore / 生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Spouse of Emperor Shundi (順帝)
    Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: empress · Object Role: emperor · Relationship State: active
  • Kin of Sanbaonu (三寶奴)
    Kinship Term: son of the Ki clan / 奇族之子 · Line: paternal
  • Kinship Role: paternal ancestors · Count: 3 · Statement: three generations posthumously enfeoffed as kings / 三世皆追封王爵
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0230
  • Kinship Role: clan members in Korea · Negated: false · Statement: Ki clan in Korea killed by the Korean king / 奇氏之族在高麗者…盡殺之 · Quantity: all
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0245
  • Kinship Role: grandsons · Statement: grandson-branch in the eastern palace / 孫枝於甲觀 · Quantity: unspecified
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0265

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: empress / 皇后
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0229
  • Label: Chongzheng Court (renamed from Zizheng) and Central Palace Administration / 崇政院…中政院 · Action: associated
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0259
  • Label: Zizheng Court established from Huizheng Court / 改徽政院為資正院 · Action: associated
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0235
  • Title: kings (three generations posthumous) / 王爵 · Action: posthumously-granted-to-family
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0230
  • Title: empress (principal palace) / 皇后 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0259, yuanshi:114:s0270
  • Title: second empress / 第二皇后 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0235
  • Status: palace woman in charge of serving tea · Action: entered · Label: palace woman in charge of serving tea / 宮女，主供茗飲
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0231
  • Status: confinement · Action: entered
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0252
  • Status: returned to palace after hundred days · Action: exited
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0254
  • Label: confined under forged order / 矯制幽 · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Bolu Temür (孛羅帖木兒)
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0252

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Label: Classic of Filial Piety for Women and historical books / 《女孝經》、史書 · Relation: studied
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0236
  • Belief: Buddhist water-and-land rites / 水陸大會 · Relation: sponsored
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0239

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: clever and sharp; gained favor · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0232
  • Assessment: deeply ashamed after Korean campaign defeat · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0249
  • Assessment: modeled herself on worthy past empresses · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0236
  • Assessment: repeatedly declined principal-palace elevation with modest words — praiseworthy · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: empress investiture patent / 冊文
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0269
  • Kind: character · Statement: clever and sharp (性穎黠)
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0232
  • Item: gold, silver, grain, and silk / 金銀粟帛 · Relation: contributed
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0239
  • Item: jade registers and jade seals / 玉冊玉寶 · Relation: bestowed
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0270
  • Item: registers and seals (册寶) / 冊寶 · Relation: bestowed
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0259
  • Item: seals / 印章 · Relation: seized-from
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0253

Source notes

  • Statement: family was humble before her elevation
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0230
  • Statement: first offered rare tribute delicacies at the Grand Temple before eating
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0237

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 114Volume 114 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 · 23 passages
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