Mingzong (明宗) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Mingzong as a ruler. This record brings together 9 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Mingzong	明宗	Mingzong
Temple name	Mingzong	明宗	Mingzong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0109

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 實生明宗，天歷二年 · Western Year: AD 1329
Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0109

Family

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Child of Empress Renxian Zhangsheng (仁獻章聖皇后)
Kinship Term: bore / 生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Parent of Emperor Shundi (順帝)
Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 1
Spouse of Babusha (八不沙)
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage
Spouse of Maidi (邁來迪)
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage
Parent of Ningzong (寧宗)
Kinship Term: second son / 次子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 2

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 114Volume 114 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 · 9 passages

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妃二人：亦乞烈氏，奴兀倫公主之女，實生明宗，天歷二年追謚仁獻章聖皇后； He had two consorts: one of the Yiqilie clan, daughter of Princess Nuwulun, who bore Mingzong and was posthumously titled Empress Renxian Zhangsheng in Tianli 2;

明宗貞裕徽聖皇后，名邁來迪，生順帝而崩。 Mingzong's Empress Zhenyu Huisheng was named Mailaiti. She bore Shundi and then died.

侍明宗潛邸，生寧宗。 She attended Mingzong while he was still heir and bore Ningzong.

天歷二年，立寧徽寺，掌明宗皇后宮事，以鈔萬錠、幣帛二千匹，供後宮費用。 In Tianli 2 the Ninghui Temple was established to manage Mingzong's empresses' palace affairs, with ten thousand ingots of paper money and two thousand bolts of silk and cloth supplied for the rear palaces.

十一月，后請為明宗資冥福，命帝師率諸僧作佛事七日於大天源延聖寺，道士建醮於玉虛、天寶、太乙、萬壽四宮，及武當、龍虎二山。 In the eleventh month the empress requested merit for Mingzong's salvation in the afterlife. The emperor ordered the Imperial Preceptor to lead monks in seven days of Buddhist rites at the Great Tianyuan Yansheng Temple, and Daoist masters to perform offerings at the Yuxu, Tianbao, Taiyi, and Wanshou palaces and on Mount Wudang and Mount Longhu.

至順元年，敕有司供明宗後宮幣帛二百匹。 In Zhishun 1 an edict ordered the relevant offices to supply two hundred bolts of silk and cloth to Mingzong's rear palaces.

后與宦者拜住謀殺明宗后八不沙。 The empress conspired with the eunuch Baiju to have Mingzong's empress Babusha killed.

三年八月，文宗崩於上都，后導揚末命，申帝初誌，遂立明宗次子懿璘質班，是為寧宗。 In the eighth month of the third year Wenzong died at Shangdu. The empress guided his final command and declared the emperor's original intent, establishing Mingzong's second son Yishiliban as emperor—this was Ningzong.

后曰：「天位至重，吾子尚幼，明宗長子妥歡帖睦爾在廣西，今十三歲矣，理當立之。」 The empress said, "The throne is of the utmost weight; my son is still young. Mingzong's eldest son Toghon Temür is in Guangxi and is now thirteen. By right he should be enthroned."