Yuan Qigui

Yuan Qigui
袁齊媯
Empress consort of Liu Song
Tenure26 October 424 – 8 September 440
PredecessorEmpress Sima Maoying
SuccessorEmpress Wang Xianyuan
Born405
Died8 September 440(440-09-08) (aged 34–35)
Jiankang, Liu Song
SpouseEmperor Wen of Song
IssueLiu Shao
Princess Dongyangxian
Posthumous name
Empress Yuan (元皇后)
FatherYuan Dan
MotherLady Wang

Yuan Qigui (Chinese: 袁齊媯; 405[1] – 8 September 440[2]), formally Empress Yuan (元皇后, literally "the discerning empress") was an empress of the Chinese Liu Song dynasty. Her husband was Emperor Wen (Liu Yilong).

  1. ^ Lady Yuan's biography in Book of Song indicated that she was 36 (by East Asian reckoning) when she died. Thus by calculation, her birth year should be 405.
  2. ^ renzi day of the 7th month of the 17th year of the Yuanjia era, per Emperor Wen's biography in Book of Song