Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Princess and Consort

Princess Huayang 華陽公主

Huayang Gongzhu

Attested AD 531 - AD 542

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Princess Huayang was a princess and Consort.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal name	Lady Yuan	元氏
Posthumous name	Zhenzhao	貞昭

Life and dates

Death

Rui lost mother at age ten
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 13, passage 31

Attested activity

AD 531 to AD 542 興和前後
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 13, passage 19

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Kin of Lady Zheng (鄭氏)
daughter of maternal cousin 從母姊妹之女
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 13, passage 20
Parent of Gao Rui (高叡)
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 13, passage 19
Spouse of Gao Chen (高琛)
wife 妻
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 13, passages 19, 79

References in the histories

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 13Volume 13 Biographies 5: Gao Chen; Gao Rui (Northern Qi); Gao Yue (Northern Qi); Gao Mai · 3 passages

至四歲，未嘗識母，其母則魏華陽公主也。 By the age of four he had never known his mother — his mother was the Princess Huayang of Wei.

高祖命元夫人令就宮與叡相見，叡前跪拜，因抱頭大哭。 Gao Huan ordered Lady Yuan to come to the palace and meet Rui; Rui went forward, knelt and bowed, then embraced her head and wept loudly.

天統中，追贈叡父琛假黃鉞，母元氏贈趙郡王妃，諡曰貞昭，華陽長公主如故，有司備禮儀就墓拜授。 In the Tiantong era Rui's father Chen was posthumously granted the yellow battle-axe; his mother the Yuan clan was posthumously made princess of Zhao Commandery with the posthumous title Zhenzhao — her title Princess Huayang remained unchanged — and the relevant offices prepared the rites and went to the tomb to invest her by proclamation.