Sui and Tang · Consort

Lady Yan 閻氏

Yan Shi

Attested AD 640 - AD 655

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Lady Yan was a consort.

Life and dates

Death

died within a year of marriage 嫁不逾年而卒
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 320

Attested activity

AD 640 to AD 655 唐楚王靈龜前妃閻氏
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 320, 322

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Spouse of Prince Lingui (靈龜)
former consort 前妃 · Ended
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 320

Kinship Role close kin · Count 0 · Negated true
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 320

Events and relationships

Buried with husband
Burial · Deceased
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 322

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 203Volume 193 Biographies 143: Exemplary Women · 1 passage

及將葬，其前妃閻氏，嫁不逾年而卒，又無近族，眾議欲不舉之。 When he was about to be buried, his former consort Lady Yan had married less than a year before dying and had no close kin; the assembly debated whether to bury her at all.