Empress Xuanyi (宣懿皇后)

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Xuanyi as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 10 passages from 6 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Empress Xuanyi	宣懿皇后	Xuānyì huánghòu
Title	Empress	皇后
Posthumous name	Empress Xuanyi	宣懿皇后
Posthumous name	Empress Xuanyi	宣懿皇后	Xuanyi
Temple	Empress Xuanyi	宣懿皇后
Title	Empress Xuanyi	宣懿皇后
Posthumous	Empress Xuanyi	宣懿皇后	Xuānyì Huánghòu
Posthumous name	Empress Xuanyi	宣懿皇后	Xuānyì Huánghòu
Personal	Empress Xuanyi of the Xiao clan	宣懿皇后蕭氏
Title	Empress Yide	懿德皇后
Title	the empress	皇后
Surname	Xiao	蕭

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0014, liaoshi:062:s0060, liaoshi:065:s0224, liaoshi:067:s0137, liaoshi:072:s0171, liaoshi:099:s0079

Roles

Consort
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Death

Manner: murdered
Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0081
Manner: ordered-to-suicide
Explicit · liaoshi:062:s0061, liaoshi:062:s0101

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 大康元年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1075
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:062:s0060, liaoshi:072:s0081, liaoshi:072:s0171
Source Date: Text: 大康初 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1075
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:099:s0078, liaoshi:099:s0079
Source Date: Text: 乾統元年六月 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1101
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:027:s0014
Source Date: Text: 道宗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1055 · End: AD 1101
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:065:s0224
Source Date: Text: 道宗宣懿皇后 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1055 · End: AD 1101
Explicit · liaoshi:067:s0137

Family

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Parent of Sagezhi (撒葛只)
Kinship Term: bore / 生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: parent · Object Role: child · Object Birth Order: 1
Parent of Jiuli (糺里)
Kinship Term: bore / 生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: parent · Object Role: child · Object Birth Order: 2
Parent of Teri (特里)
Kinship Term: bore / 生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: parent · Object Role: child · Object Birth Order: 3
Spouse of Hongji (洪基)
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage
Kinship Term: empress consort / 皇后 · Union Category: marriage
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband · Relationship State: active
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage
Parent of Yelü Jun (浚)
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
Child of Hui (惠)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter

Kinship Role: daughters · Count: 3
Explicit · liaoshi:065:s0224

Career and standing

Label: ordered to take own life / 賜皇后自盡 · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Hongji (洪基)
Explicit · liaoshi:062:s0061

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: active-in
Explicit · liaoshi:062:s0060
Polity Id: liao · Relation: associated-with
Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0171
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:067:s0137
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0079
Polity Id: liao · Relation: subject-of
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:065:s0224

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0014, liaoshi:065:s0224

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 27Volume 27 Annals 27: Emperor Tianzuo 1 · 2 passages

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庚子，追懿德皇后為宣懿皇后。 On gengzi day Empress Yide was posthumously titled Empress Xuanyi.

辛亥，葬仁聖大孝文皇帝、宣懿皇后于慶陵。 On xinhai day the Benevolent Sage Great Filial Literary Emperor and Empress Xuanyi were buried at Qing Mausoleum.

History of Liao, Chapter 62Volume 62 Treatises 32: Punishment and Law 2 · 3 passages

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然自大康元年，北院樞密使耶律乙辛等用事，宮婢單登等誣告宣懿皇后，乙辛以聞，即詔乙辛劾狀，因實其事。 Yet from the first year of Dakang, Northern Privy Councilor Yelü Yixin held power; palace maid Shan Deng falsely accused Empress Xuanyi; Yixin reported it, and the emperor ordered him to investigate—thereby making the charge stick.

上怒，族伶人趙惟一，斬高長命，皆籍其家，仍賜皇后自盡。 The emperor flew into a rage: the actor Zhao Weiyi and his entire clan were destroyed, Gao Changming was beheaded, both families' property was confiscated, and the empress was ordered to take her own life.

道宗殺宣懿皇后，遷昭懷太子，太子尋被害。 Daozong killed Empress Xuanyi and banished Crown Prince Zhaohuai, who was soon murdered.

History of Liao, Chapter 65Volume 65 Tables 3: Princesses · 1 passage

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宣懿皇后生三女： Born to Empress Xuanyi, three daughters:

History of Liao, Chapter 67Volume 67 Tables 5: Families of Imperial Consorts · 1 passage

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道宗宣懿皇后父惠 Hui, father of Empress Xuanyi, consort of Emperor Daozong

History of Liao, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 2: Imperial Family: Yi Zongbei, the Foreign Emperor Zhang Su, Shun Zongjun, Jin Wangaoluwo · 2 passages

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順宗，名濬，小字耶魯斡，道宗長子，母宣懿皇后蕭氏。 Shunzong, whose personal name was Jun and childhood name Yeluwo, was Daozong's eldest son; his mother was Empress Xuanyi of the Xiao clan.

及母后被害，太子有憂色。 When the empress mother was killed, the crown prince's face showed deep worry.

History of Liao, Chapter 99Volume 99 Biographies 29: Xiao Yanshou, Yelu Sala, Xiao Susa, Yelu Tabuye, Xiao Tabuye, Xiao Hugu, Yelu Shiliu · 1 passage

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時樞密使耶律乙辛誣殺皇后，謀廢太子，斥忠賢，進奸黨，石柳惡其所為，乙辛覺之。 Bureau Commissioner Yelu Yixin had framed the empress for execution, plotted to depose the crown prince, banished the loyal, and advanced his faction; Shiliu loathed these acts, and Yixin took notice.