Lady Wu (wife of Sun Jian)

Lady Wu
吳夫人
BornWu County, Wu Commandery, Han dynasty
(now Suzhou, Jiangsu, China)
Died202[1]
SpouseSun Jian
Issue
Posthumous name
Empress Wulie (武烈皇后)

Lady Wu (died 202),[1] personal name unknown, was a Chinese noble lady, aristocrat and posthumously honoured as Empress of Eastern Wu state. She was the wife of the warlord Sun Jian, who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. She bore Sun Jian four sons and a daughter – Sun Ce, Sun Quan, Sun Yi, Sun Kuang and Lady Sun. She was posthumously honoured as Empress Wulie in 229 by her second son Sun Quan, who became the founding emperor of the state of Eastern Wu in the Three Kingdoms period.[2]

  1. ^ a b (建安七年,臨薨,引見張昭等,屬以後事,合葬高陵。) Sanguozhi vol. 50.
  2. ^ de Crespigny (2007), pp. 864–865.


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