Wenzong (文宗) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wenzong as a ruler. This record brings together 7 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wenzong	文宗	Wenzong
Temple name	Wenzong	文宗	Wenzong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0110

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Place: Shangdu / 上都 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年八月，文宗崩於上都 · Western Year: AD 1332
Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0167

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 生文宗，天歷二年 · Western Year: AD 1329
Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0110

Family

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Child of Empress Wenxian Zhaosheng (文獻昭聖皇后)
Kinship Term: bore / 生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Spouse of Budashiri (卜答失裏)
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 114Volume 114 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 · 7 passages

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唐兀氏，生文宗，天歷二年追謚文獻昭聖皇后。 and one of the Tangut clan, who bore Wenzong and was posthumously titled Empress Wenxian Zhaosheng in Tianli 2.

文宗天歷初，俱安置東安州。 At the beginning of Wenzong's Tianli era, both were settled at Dong'an Prefecture.

文宗立，謚貞裕徽聖皇后。 When Wenzong took the throne, she was given the posthumous title Empress Zhenyu Huisheng.

文宗卜答失裏皇后，弘吉剌氏，父駙馬魯王雕阿不剌，母魯國公主桑哥剌吉。 Wenzong's Empress Budashiri was of the Kongirat clan. Her father was the imperial son-in-law Prince Lu Diaobula, and her mother was Princess Lu Sangoraji.

文宗居建業，后亦在行。 When Wenzong was at Jianye, the empress accompanied him.

天歷元年，文宗即位，立為皇后。 In Tianli 1 Wenzong took the throne and she was established as empress.

三年八月，文宗崩於上都，后導揚末命，申帝初誌，遂立明宗次子懿璘質班，是為寧宗。 In the eighth month of the third year Wenzong died at Shangdu. The empress guided his final command and declared the emperor's original intent, establishing Mingzong's second son Yishiliban as emperor—this was Ningzong.