Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Consort and Empress

Sima Lingji 司馬令姬

Attested AD 579 - AD 580

Passages
2
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Sima Lingji as a consort. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Sima Lingji 司馬令姬 Sima Lingji
Title Empress Sima 司馬皇后 Sima huanghou
Personal name Lingji 令姬 Lingji
Surname Sima 司馬 Sima

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Female

Roles

  • Consort

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 二年九月 · Western Year: AD 580
    Explicit · zhoushu:009:s0217
  • Source Date: Text: 大象元年七月 · Western Year: AD 579
    Explicit · zhoushu:009:s0210

Family

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  • Spouse of Yuwen Chan (宇文闡)
    Kinship Term: taken as empress / 納為皇后 · Union Category: marriage · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大象元年七月 · Western Year: AD 579
  • Child of Sima Xiaonan (司馬消難)
    Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
  • Spouse of Li Dan (李丹)
    Kinship Term: married as wife of / 嫁為…妻 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: formed

Career and standing

  • Status: commoner · Action: deposed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二年九月 · Western Year: AD 580
    Explicit · zhoushu:009:s0217

References in the histories

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Book of Zhou, Chapter 9Volume 9 Biographies 1: Empresses · 2 passages