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Wu Zetian
ཝུའུ་ཙེ་ཐེན། bo 武則天 zh
Founding empress of Zhou dynasty (r. 690–705); de facto ruler of Tang dynasty from 665 to 690
- Child of Wu Shihuo and Yang
- Married to Emperor Gaozong of Tang
- Dated 17 February 624 CE – 16 December 705 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 1
- 16 October 690 CE – 21 February 705 CE Emperor of China Succeeded Emperor Ruizong of Tang · Succeeded by Emperor Zhongzong of Tang
Family
The family of Wu Zetian
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 15
Family 15
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (father) Wu Shihuo father of Wu Zetian
- child of (mother) Yang noblewoman; mother of Wu Zetian
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of the house Tang dynasty empire in the China proper between 618 and 907 AD -
of the house Zhou dynasty dynasty of Ancient Chinese kings (王) lasting from c. 1046 to 256 BC - parent of (child) Emperor Ruizong of Tang emperor of the Tang Dynasty
- parent of (child) Emperor Zhongzong of Tang emperor of the Tang Dynasty
- parent of (child) Li Hong Tang Dynasty crown prince
- parent of (child) Li Xian Tang Dynasty crown prince
- parent of (child) Princess Si of Anding daughter of Wu Zetian
- parent of (mother) Princess Taiping Chinese princess (665-713)
- parent of (child) Wu Shi possibly daughter of Wu Sansi, or daughter of Princess Taiping and Wu Youji
- sibling of Wu Shun Lady of Han during the Tang Dynasty
- sibling of Wu Yuanqing brother of Wu Zetian
- sibling of Wu Yuanshuang Tang dynasty person CBDB = 24644
- married to Emperor Gaozong of Tang Emperor of the Tang Dynasty (628-683) (r. 649-683)
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Connections
How Wu Zetian connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Text 1
What this means
A work, its editions and its witnesses are distinct; their dates are not interchangeable.
Does not imply that the work is the only account · that the work is contemporary with what it describes
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
18 statements on this record
- 3 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 14 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
- 1 Hedged in the source The source said circa, allegedly or presumably. This does not turn that into a date.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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