Empress Zhenhui (貞惠皇后)

Overview

The translated histories identify Empress Zhenhui as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 13 passages from 4 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Empress Zhenhui	貞惠皇后	Zhenhui huanghou
Title	empress	皇后
Title	Empress	皇后
Posthumous	Empress Zhenhui	貞惠皇后
Posthumous name	Empress Zhenhui	貞惠皇后	Zhēnhuì huánghòu
Title	Empress Zhenhui of the Liu clan	貞惠皇后劉氏
Personal	Lady Liu	劉氏
Personal	Lady Liu	刘氏
Alternate name	Lady Liu	劉氏	Liú shì
Alternate name	Lady Liu	劉夫人	Liú fūrén
Title	Lady Liu of Pengcheng	彭城郡夫人刘氏
Title	Lady of Pengcheng commandery	彭城郡夫人
Title	Lady of Pengcheng Commandery	彭城縣君
Title	Lady of Pengcheng Commandery	彭城郡夫人
Title	Lady of Pengcheng county	彭城縣君
Personal name	Liu	劉氏	Liu
Surname	Liu	劉	Liú
Posthumous name	Zhenhui	貞惠	Zhenhui

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:120:s0075, jiuwudaishi:121:s0089, xinwudaishi:012:s0094, xinwudaishi:020:s0066

Roles

Consort
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Death

Cause: execution · Authority: Later Han / 漢 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太祖舉兵 · Western Interval: Start: AD 950 · End: AD 951
Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0067
Source Date: Text: 漢末 · Western Year: AD 950 · Cause: killed with imperial kin
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0092

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 顯德四年夏四月 · Regnal Year: 4 · Season: summer · Lunar Month: 4 · Western Year: AD 957
Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0069
Source Date: Text: 顯德四年夏四月 · Regnal Year: 4 · Month: 4 · Season: summer · Western Year: AD 957
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0094
Source Date: Text: 太祖舉兵 · Western Interval: Start: AD 950 · End: AD 951
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:020:s0067
Source Date: Text: 显德四年四月 · Western Year: AD 957
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:012:s0094
Source Date: Text: 漢乾祐中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 948 · End: AD 950
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0090
Source Date: Text: 顯德六年十月至十一月 · Western Year: AD 959
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:120:s0075, jiuwudaishi:120:s0079

Family

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Spouse of Emperor Shizong (世宗)
Kinship Term: posthumously enthroned as empress / 追册...为皇后 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: ended
Union Category: marriage
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: widowed
Kinship Term: wed / 娶 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: ended
Union Category: marriage

Origins and identity

Label: military family / 將家
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0089
Statement: family background unknown
Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0066

Career and standing

Title: Lady of Pengcheng Commandery / 彭城縣君 · Action: granted
Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0066
Title: Lady of Pengcheng Commandery / 彭城郡夫人 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太祖即位 · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0068
Label: Empress Zhenhui / 皇后謚貞惠 · Action: posthumously-granted · Source Date: Text: 顯德四年夏四月 · Regnal Year: 4 · Month: 4 · Season: summer · Western Year: AD 957
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:121:s0094
Title: Lady of Pengcheng county / 彭城縣君 · Action: granted · Source Date: Text: 漢乾祐中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 948 · End: AD 950
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:121:s0090
Title: Lady of Pengcheng commandery / 彭城郡夫人 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0093
Title: Empress / 皇后 · Action: posthumously-installed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 顯德四年夏四月 · Western Year: AD 957
Explicit · xinwudaishi:020:s0069