Sui and Tang · Royal Family Member

Princess Taiping 太平公主

Tàipíng Gōngzhǔ

Attested AD 705 - AD 713

Passages: 9
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Princess Taiping as a royal family member. This record brings together 9 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Princess Taiping	太平公主	Tàipíng Gōngzhǔ
Title	Princess Taiping	太平公主	Tàipíng Gōngzhǔ
Title	Princess Taiping	太平公主
Personal name	Taiping	太平	Tàipíng
Title	Taiping	太平

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · xintangshu:045:s0136
Sex: female
Strongly inferred · xintangshu:121:s0025

Roles

Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 中宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 705 · End: AD 710
Explicit · xintangshu:045:s0136
Source Date: Text: 太平公主誅 · Western Year: AD 713
Explicit · xintangshu:121:s0032
Source Date: Text: 附太平公主 · Western Interval: Start: AD 712 · End: AD 713
Explicit · xintangshu:121:s0025

Family

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Sibling of Xuanzong (玄宗)
Kinship Term: full sister / 元妹 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger
Child of Emperor Ruizong (睿宗)
Kinship Term: sister / 妹 · Parentage: biological

Places and affiliations

Label: Tang / 唐 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · xintangshu:045:s0136

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: power-holder · Action: issued-slanted-seal-appointments
Explicit · xintangshu:045:s0136
Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Cui Li (崔涖)
Strongly inferred · xintangshu:045:s0142
Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Xue Zhao (薛昭)
Strongly inferred · xintangshu:045:s0142

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · xintangshu:045:s0136

References in the histories

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 45Volume 45 Treatises 40: Selecting and Appointing Officials 2 · 2 passages

中宗時，韋後及太平、安樂公主等用事，於側門降墨敕斜封授官，號「斜封官」，凡數千員。 Under Zhongzong, Empress Wei and the Princesses Taiping and Anle ruled through side-gate edicts with slanted seals, creating thousands of "slanted-seal" appointees.

未幾，璟、元之等罷，殿中侍御史崔涖、太子中允薛昭希太平公主意，上言：「罷斜封官，人失其所，而怨積於下，必有非常之變。」 Soon Song and Yao were dismissed; Cui Li and Xue Zhao, courting Princess Taiping, warned: "Abolishing slanted-seal posts leaves men displaced, resentment builds below, and disaster will follow."

New Book of Tang, Chapter 121Volume 121 Biographies 46: Liu, Zhong, Cui, and the Two Kings · 7 passages

已而湜等附太平公主，有逆計。 Soon Shi and his circle aligned with Princess Taiping and plotted rebellion.

幽求與右羽林將軍張暐定計，使暐說玄宗曰：「湜等皆太平黨與，日夜陰計，若不早圖，且產大害，太上不得高枕矣。 Youqiu and Zhang Wei of the Right Imperial Insignia Army laid a plan whereby Wei urged Xuanzong: "Shi and his allies are Princess Taiping's faction, scheming night and day; unless you strike first, grave harm will follow and your father will never sleep in peace.

明年，太平公主誅，即日召復舊官，知軍國事，還封戶，賜錦衣一襲。 The following year, after Princess Taiping was killed, he was recalled the same day to his old post, entrusted with military and civil affairs, had his fief restored, and received a brocade robe.

由荊州長史入奏計，因言：「太平公主逆節有萌，陛下往以宮府討有罪，臣、子勢須謀與力，今據大位，一下制書定矣。」 Coming in from Jingzhou to report revenues, he said, "Princess Taiping's treason is already showing. You once relied on the palace guard to punish criminals; as prince you needed allies. Now that you sit on the throne, a single edict can finish her."

琚怒曰：「在外惟聞太平公主，不聞有太子。 Ju snapped, "Out there people talk only of Princess Taiping, not of a crown prince.

今天下已定，太平專思立功，左右大臣多為其用，天子以元妹，能忍其過，臣竊為殿下寒心。」 Today the realm is settled, but Taiping still schemes for power, many ministers serve her, and the emperor indulges her as his sister—I fear for you."

太平之誅，張暐召還為大理卿，封鄧國公，實封戶三百，進京兆尹，入侍宴樂，出主京邑，時人以為寵，然自以幹治稱。 After Princess Taiping's death Zhang Wei returned as director of judicial review, was made Duke of Deng with three hundred households, became metropolitan governor of Jingzhao, feasted in the palace and ruled the capital—an honor, though he was known as an able administrator.