Five Dynasties · Consort and Empress

Empress Xuanyi Fu 宣懿皇后符氏

Fu

Died AD 955

Passages
14
Chapters
3
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Xuanyi Fu as an aristocrat, consort, and royal family member. This record brings together 14 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Empress Xuanyi Fu 宣懿皇后符氏 Fu
Title empress 皇后
Title Empress 皇后
Alternate name Empress Fu 符後
Posthumous Empress Xuanyi 宣懿皇后
Posthumous name Empress Xuanyi 宣懿皇后 Xuānyì huánghòu
Title Empress Xuanyi of the Fu clan 宣懿皇后符氏
Personal name Fu 符氏 Fu
Surname Fu 符 Fú
Personal Lady Fu 符氏
Title Lady Fu of Wei 卫国夫人符氏
Posthumous name Xuanyi 宣懿 Xuanyi

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Female

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • Consort
  • Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Death

  • Place: Zide Hall / 滋德殿 · Age: 26 · Source Date: Text: 顯德二年七月二十一日 · Regnal Year: 2 · Month: 7 · Day: 21 · Western Year: AD 955
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0103
  • Cause: illness from worry · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 世宗征淮 · Western Interval: Start: AD 956 · End: AD 958
    Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0044
  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 显德三年秋七月 · Western Year: AD 956
    Explicit · xinwudaishi:012:s0080

Age

Attested activity

Family

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  • Descendant of Fu Cunshen (符存審)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2
  • Child of Guo Wei (郭威)
    Kinship Term: adoptive father / 養父 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: adoptive-father · Object Role: adoptive-daughter
    Kinship Term: acknowledged as father / 拜…為父 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: adoptive father / 養父 · Parentage: adoptive
  • Spouse of Emperor Shizong (世宗)
    Kinship Term: enthroned as empress / 立...为皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: active
    Union Category: primary-marriage
    Kinship Term: successor wife / 繼室 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: active
    Union Category: primary-marriage
  • Child of Fu Yanqing (符彥卿)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
  • Spouse of Li Chongxun (李崇訓)
    Union Category: marriage
    Kinship Term: married to / 適 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: ended
    Union Category: marriage
  • Child of Mother of Empress Xuanyi
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: daughter
  • Child of Mother of the Fu empresses (符氏之母)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological
  • Sibling of Later Empress Fu (後符後)
    Kinship Term: younger sister / 女弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: full
    Kinship Term: younger sister / 妹 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: full
    Kinship Term: younger sister / 女弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full
  • Kinship Role: younger-siblings-of-Chongxun · Count: 2 · Note: 弟妹 killed by Chongxun
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0098

Career and standing

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: political · Role: advisor · Action: admonished-against-personal-campaign · Other Person Id: Emperor Shizong (世宗)
    Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0043
  • Kind: escape · Role: survivor · Action: escaped death at Hezhong when Chongxun killed siblings · Place: Hezhong / 河中 · Source Date: Text: 漢乾祐中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 948 · End: AD 950
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:121:s0098
  • Kind: political · Role: speaker · Action: warned-soldiers · Place: Hezhong household
    Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0033
  • Relation: adoptive-child-of · Person Id: Guo Wei (郭威)
    Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0036

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: clear-minded, resolute, ambitious · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0025
  • Assessment: exemplary; no shame before the red brush · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0122
  • Assessment: gentle, kind, interceded for subordinates · Provenance: Mode: narrative
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0101
  • Assessment: valued counselor who eased Shizong anger · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0042

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 121Volume 121 Book of Later Zhou 23: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 9 passages
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漢乾祐中，守貞叛於河中，太祖以兵攻之，及城陷，崇訓自刃其弟妹，次將及後，後時匿於屏處，以帷箔自蔽，崇訓倉黃求後不及，遂自刎，後因獲免。 During the Han Qianyou era Li Shouzhen rebelled at Hezhong and the Emperor besieged him. When the city fell, Chongxun killed his younger siblings and was about to kill her next; she had hidden behind a screen, shielded by curtains. He searched for her in panic but could not find her in time and cut his own throat, and she escaped.
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 12Volume 12 Later Zhou Annals 3: Shizong, Emperor Gong · 3 passages
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 20Volume 20: Shizong of Later Zhou's Family · 2 passages
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