Sorghaghtani Beki (唆魯和帖尼)

Overview

The translated histories identify Sorghaghtani Beki as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 6 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	Sorghaghtani Beki	唆魯和帖尼	Suluhetieni
Title	Consort Sorghaghtani Beki	唆魯和帖尼妃子
Posthumous	Empress Xianyi Zhuang Sheng	顯懿莊聖皇后
Posthumous	Empress Xianyi Zhuangsheng	顯懿莊聖皇后
Posthumous	Empress Zhuang Sheng	莊聖皇后
Posthumous	Empress Zhuangsheng	莊聖皇后
Clan	Kereit	怯烈氏
Surname	Kereyid	怯烈氏
Personal	Sorghaghtani Beki	唆魯和帖尼
Personal	Sorghaghtani Beki	唆魯和帖尼	Suoluhotieni

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0039, yuanshi:116:s0002

Roles

Consort
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 至元二年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1265
Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0039
Source Date: Text: 至元二年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1265
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:116:s0003
Source Date: Text: 至大三年 · Western Year: AD 1310
Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0039
Source Date: Text: 至大三年十月 · Western Year: AD 1310
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:116:s0005
Source Date: Text: 至大二年十二月 · Western Year: AD 1309
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:116:s0004

Family

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Parent of Emperor Shizu (世祖)
Kinship Term: bore / 生子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Parent of Xianzong (憲宗)
Kinship Term: bore / 生子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Spouse of Tolui (拖雷)
Kinship Term: consort / 妃子 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: active
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband
Kin of Empress Guangxian (光獻皇后)
Kinship Term: served Guangxian / 逮事光獻 · Subject Role: daughter-in-law · Object Role: mother-in-law

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Kereyid / 怯烈氏
Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0039
Label: Kereit / 怯烈氏
Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0002

Career and standing

Title: Empress Xianyi Zhuang Sheng / 顯懿莊聖皇后 · Action: posthumously-augmented · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至大二年十二月 · Western Year: AD 1309
Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0004
Title: Empress Xianyi Zhuangsheng / 顯懿莊聖皇后 · Action: posthumously-augmented
Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0039
Title: Empress Zhuang Sheng / 莊聖皇后 · Action: posthumously-honored · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元二年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1265
Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0003
Title: Empress Zhuangsheng / 莊聖皇后 · Action: posthumously-titled
Explicit · yuanshi:106:s0039

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: yuan · Relation: associated-with
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:106:s0039
Polity Id: yuan · Relation: associated-with
Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0002

Works and attributed material

Kind: investiture-document · Role: honoree · Quoted: true
Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0005, yuanshi:116:s0006, yuanshi:116:s0007, yuanshi:116:s0008, yuanshi:116:s0009, yuanshi:116:s0010, yuanshi:116:s0011, yuanshi:116:s0012, yuanshi:116:s0013, yuanshi:116:s0014, yuanshi:116:s0015, yuanshi:116:s0016, yuanshi:116:s0017, yuanshi:116:s0018, yuanshi:116:s0019, yuanshi:116:s0020, yuanshi:116:s0021

Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: honoree · Action: enshrined-in-temple · Other Person Id: Tolui (拖雷) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至元二年 · Reign Id: yuan-zhiyuan · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1265
Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0003
Kind: ritual · Role: honoree · Action: jade-book-presented · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至大三年十月 · Western Year: AD 1310
Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0005, yuanshi:116:s0018

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: perspicacious, sagely, gentle, and excellent · Provenance: Mode: quoted-document
Explicit · yuanshi:116:s0009

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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唆魯和帖尼妃子（怯烈氏。至元二年追上尊諡曰莊聖皇后，至大三年加諡曰顯懿莊聖皇后。） Consort Sorghaghtani Beki (Kereyid; posthumously titled Empress Zhuangsheng in 1265 and augmented to Empress Xianyi Zhuangsheng in 1310).

History of Yuan, Chapter 116Volume 116 Biographies 3: Empresses and Consorts 2 · 5 passages

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睿宗顯懿莊聖皇后，名唆魯和帖尼，怯烈氏，生子憲宗、世祖，相繼為帝。 Empress Xianyi Zhuang Sheng of Emperor Ruizong Tolui was named Sorghaghtani Beki of the Kereit. She bore Möngke and Kublai, each of whom in turn became emperor.

至元二年，追上尊謚莊聖皇后，升祔睿宗廟。 In 1265 she was given the posthumous title Empress Zhuang Sheng and enshrined in Emperor Ruizong's temple.

至大二年十二月，加謚顯懿莊聖皇后。 In December 1309 her title was further augmented to Empress Xianyi Zhuang Sheng.

欽惟莊聖皇后，英明溥博，聖善柔嘉。 Reverently considering Empress Zhuang Sheng: perspicacious and broadly accomplished, sagely, good, gentle, and excellent.

謹遣攝太尉某奉玉冊玉寶，加上尊謚曰顯懿莊聖皇后。 We respectfully send the Acting Grand Commandant to present the jade book and jade seal and add the honorific posthumous title Empress Xianyi Zhuang Sheng.