Wang Baoming (王寶明)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Baoming as a consort, family member, royal family member, and ruler. 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	Wang Baoming	王寶明	Wang Baoming
Posthumous name	Empress An	安后	An Hou
Title	Empress An	安皇后	An Huanghou
Temple name	Empress Wen'an	文安王皇后	Wen'an Wang Huanghou
Personal name	Wang Baoming	王寶明	Wang Baoming
Given		寶明	Baoming
Surname		王	Wang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Female

Sex: female
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Roles

Consort
Family Member
Royal Family Member
Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監十一年 · Western Year: AD 512
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Age

Age: 58 · Reckoning: sui
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天監十一年 · Western Year: AD 512
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Source Date: Text: 建元元年 · Western Year: AD 479
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Source Date: Text: 文惠太子四男 · Western Interval: Start: AD 483 · End: AD 493
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Source Date: Text: 永元三年 · Western Year: AD 501
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Family

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Child of Wang Shaozhi (韶之)
Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2
Sibling of Bing (昺)
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Relative Age: younger
Sibling of Huang (晃)
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Relative Age: younger
Spouse of Crown Prince Wen Hui (文惠太子)
Kinship Term: empress / 后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: active
Child of Wang Yezhi (曄之)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Parent of Zhaoye (昭業)
Kinship Term: gave birth to / 生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Child of Lady Huan (桓氏)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological
Spouse of Crown Prince Wenhui (文惠太子)
Union Category: marriage

Career and standing

Label: Consort to the Prince of Nan commandery / 南郡王妃 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建元元年 · Western Year: AD 479
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Label: Consort to the crown prince / 皇太子妃 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建元四年 · Western Year: AD 482
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Label: Grand consort to the imperial grandson's heir / 皇太孫太妃 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永明十一年 · Western Year: AD 493
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Label: Empress dowager / 皇太后 · Action: appointed
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Status: empress-dowager · Label: Xuande Palace / 宣德宮
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Places and affiliations

Place: Linyi in Langya / 琅邪臨沂
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Place: Chong'an Mausoleum / 崇安陵 · Relation: buried-at
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Place: former residence of the Prince of Poyang / 鄱陽王故第 · Relation: resided-at
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Organization: Southern Qi / 南齊 · Relation: affiliated-with
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: refugee · Action: fled-guiyang-rebels · Other Person Id: Crown Prince Wenhui (文惠太子)
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Kind: political · Role: regent · Action: held-regency · Other Person Id: Prince of Liang (梁王) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永元三年 · Western Year: AD 501
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References in the histories

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Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 20Volume 20 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 8 passages

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文安王皇后諱寶明，琅邪臨沂人也。 Empress Wen'an Wang Baoming came from Linyi in Langya commandery.

其冬，與太后同日謁太廟。 That winter she and the empress dowager visited the Great Temple on the same day.

宋世，太祖為文惠太子納后，桂陽賊至，太祖在新亭，傳言已沒，宅復為人所抄掠，文惠太子、竟陵王子良奉穆后、庾妃及后挺身送后兄昺之家，事平乃出。 In the Song era the Grand Ancestor took her in marriage for Crown Prince Wenhui. When the Guiyang rebels came, the Grand Ancestor was at Xinting; rumor said he had perished, and the residence was plundered again. Crown Prince Wenhui and Prince of Jingling Ziliang, escorting Empress Mu, Lady Yu, and the empress, risked themselves to take them to the empress's brother Bing's house; when order was restored they came out.

太子為宮人製新麗衣裳及首飾，而后牀帷陳設故舊，釵鑷十餘枚。 The crown prince had new splendid garments and ornaments made for palace women, while the empress's bed curtains and furnishings stayed old, with only a dozen or so hairpins and tweezers.

鬱林即位，尊為皇太后，稱宣德宮。 When Yulin acceded she was honored as empress dowager, styled Xuande Palace.

永元三年，梁王定京邑，迎后入宮稱制，至禪位。 In Yongyuan year 3 the Prince of Liang secured the capital, welcomed the empress into the palace to rule in regency, and held power until the abdication.

諡曰安后。 She was posthumously titled Empress An.

文安廢主，百憂已離，中興秉制，揖讓弘規。 Wen'an and the deposed sovereign, grief already behind them; at Zhongxing she took the seals, then yielded the throne in great ceremony.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 50Volume 50 Biographies 31: Emperor Wen's Two Princes, Emperor Ming's Seven Princes · 1 passage

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文惠太子四男：安皇后生鬱林王昭業； Crown Prince Wen Hui had four sons: Empress An gave birth to Zhaoye, Prince of Yulin;