Radnashiri or Aradnashiri[1] (Chinese: 阿納失失里; Mongolian: Раднашири хатан) (died 1322) was an empress consort of the Yuan dynasty, married to Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan (Emperor Renzong).

Radnashiri
Empress consort of the Yuan dynasty and Khatun of Mongols
Tenure7 April 1311 – 1 March 1320
PredecessorEmpress Zhenge
SuccessorEmpress Sugabala
Empress Dowager of the Yuan dynasty
Tenure19 April 1320 — 1322
PredecessorEmpress Dowager Dagi
SuccessorEmpress Dowager Babukhan
Bornc. 1286/1287
Died1322 (aged 34- 36)
SpouseAyurbarwada Buyantu Khan
IssueGegeen Khan
Posthumous name
Empress Zhuāngyìcí Shèng (庄懿慈圣皇后)
HouseKhongirad

Life edit

She was from the Khongirad tribe. It is not known when she met Ayurbarwada or his relation to any preceding empresses by blood. She gave birth to Shidibala on 22 February 1302. She became empress upon Ayurbarwada's elevation to throne in 1311. Her influence increased upon installment of Shidibala as the new crown prince but Dagi's influence strictly limited hers. She was created Empress Dowager in 1320 by his son, now Emperor Gegeen Khan. However, she soon died in 1322, around the very time Dagi fell from power as well. She was posthumously renamed Empress Zhuāngyìcí Shèng (Chinese: 庄懿慈圣皇后; lit. 'Sedate', 'beautiful', 'kind and holy empress') by Gegeen Khan and interred together with Ayurbarwada.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Book of Yuan, Chapter 114
  2. ^ Zhao, George Qingzhi (2008). Marriage as Political Strategy and Cultural Expression: Mongolian Royal Marriages from World Empire to Yuan Dynasty. Peter Lang. p. 246. ISBN 978-1-4331-0275-2.
Chinese royalty
Preceded by Empress of the Yuan dynasty
1311–1320
Succeeded by