Song, Liao, and Jin · Consort

Literary Consort 文妃

Wenfei

Died AD 1121

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Literary Consort was a consort.

Life and dates

Death

AD 1121 初
Granted death
Directly stated · History of Liao 29, passage 9

Attested activity

AD 1121 初
Dated from the passage context · History of Liao 29, passages 1-2, 4, 8-9

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Spouse of Tianzuo (上)
consort 妃 · Secondary marriage
Strongly inferred · History of Liao 29, passage 4
Parent of Prince of Jin (晉王)
mother 母 · maternal line
Directly stated · History of Liao 29, passage 4
Sibling of Elder sister of Literary Consort (文妃長姊)
sister 姊妹
Directly stated · History of Liao 29, passage 8
Sibling of Younger sister of Literary Consort (文妃之妹)
sister 姊妹
Directly stated · History of Liao 29, passage 8

three sisters 姊妹三人
Kinship Role sisters · Count 3
Directly stated · History of Liao 29, passage 8

Career and standing

granted death 賜死
AD 1121 初 · Suffered
Directly stated · History of Liao 29, passage 9

Places and affiliations

Polity Id liao · Polity Liao 遼 · Relation Consort of court
Directly stated · History of Liao 29, passage 4

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · History of Liao 29, passage 4

References in the histories

History of Liao, Chapter 29Volume 29 Annals 29: Emperor Tianzuo 3 · 3 passages

次晉王，母文妃； Next came the Prince of Jin, whose mother was Literary Consort;

文妃姊妹三人：長適耶律撻曷里，次文妃，次適余睹。 Literary Consort had three sisters: the eldest married Yelü Tayehexi, the second was Literary Consort, the third married Yudu.

一日，其姊若妹俱會軍前，奉先諷人誣駙馬蕭昱及余睹等謀立晉王，事覺，昱、撻曷里等伏誅，文妃亦賜死； One day her elder and younger sisters both met at the army front; Fengxian prompted men to falsely accuse imperial son-in-law Xiao Yu and Yudu and others of plotting to set up the Prince of Jin; when the matter was exposed Yu, Tayehexi, and others were executed, and Literary Consort was also ordered to die;