Yuan · Empress

Nanbi 南必

Attested AD 1283 - AD 1283

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Overview

The translated histories identify Nanbi as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 2 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodYuan

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Nanbi 南必 Nanbi
Title Empress Nanbi 南必皇后
Surname Kongirat 弘吉列氏
Personal Nanbi 南必
Personal name Nanbi 南必 Nanbi

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Female

Roles

  • Consort
  • Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 至元二十年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 20 · Western Year: AD 1283
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0022
  • Source Date: Text: 至元二十年，納為皇后 · Western Year: AD 1283
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0082

Family

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  • Child of Xiantong (仙童)
    Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
  • Spouse of Emperor Shizu (世祖)
    Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: active
    Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage
  • Parent of Temürchik (鐵蔑赤)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: empress / 皇后 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元二十年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 20 · Western Year: AD 1283
    Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0082
  • Status: empress · Action: taken-as · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元二十年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 20 · Western Year: AD 1283
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0022

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

  • Kind: political · Role: participant · Action: intervened-in-government · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元二十年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 20 · Western Year: AD 1283
    Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0022

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 106Volume 106 Tables 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage
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帖古倫大皇后 右大斡耳朵 察必皇后 （弘吉列氏，魯忠武王按嗔那顏女也。中統初立為皇后，至元十年授冊寶，尋又上尊號曰貞懿昭順天睿文光應皇后。十八年崩，三十一年上尊諡曰昭睿順聖皇后。后性明敏，達於事機，至元之政，左右彌縫，當時以為蓋有力焉。） 南必皇后 （弘吉列氏。至元二十年納為皇后，時世祖春秋高，后頗預政，相臣常不得見帝，輒因后奏事焉。） 右第二斡耳朵 塔剌海皇后 奴罕皇后 右第三斡耳朵 伯要兀真皇后 闊闊倫皇后 右第四斡耳朵 八八罕妃子 右見歲賜錄，不知所守斡耳朵。 速哥答（思）里皇后 （泰定三年詔守世祖斡耳朵。） 撒不忽妃子 Great Empress Tegulün. Right Great Orda: Empress Chabi (Kongirat, daughter of the loyal and martial King Anchannayan of Lu; made empress at the start of the Zhongtong era, invested with seal and regalia in 1273, and soon given the honorific Empress Zhenyi Zhaoshun Tianrui Wenguang Ying; she died in 1281 and was posthumously titled Empress Zhaorui Shunsheng in 1294. Intelligent and politically astute, she was widely thought to have significantly shaped Zhiyuan-era governance). Empress Nanbi (Kongirat; taken as empress in 1283 when Kublai was elderly; she often intervened in government, and ministers who could not reach the emperor would report through her). Right Second Orda: Empress Talahai; Empress Nuhan. Right Third Orda: Empress Boyaowuzhen; Empress Kuokuolun. Right Fourth Orda: Consort Babuhan (listed in the annual grant register but with no orda recorded). Empress Sugedali (in 1326 ordered by edict to maintain Kublai's orda). Consort Sabuhu.
History of Yuan, Chapter 114Volume 114 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 · 1 passage
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