Princess Wenzhuang
{{Short description|Qing dynasty princess}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name = Gurun Princess Wenzhuang
{{nobold|固倫溫莊公主}}
| image =
| succession = Princess of the First Rank
| reign = 1657 – 1663
| birth_date = 9 August 1625
| death_date = {{death year and age|1663|1625|}}
| spouse = Ejei Khan (m.1636)
Abunai (m.1645)
| issue = Borni
Lubuzung
| full name = *Aisin Gioro Makata (爱新觉罗 馬喀塔)
- Princess Wenzhuang, of the First Rank (固倫溫莊公主)
| house = Aisin Gioro (by birth)
Chahar Borjigit (by marriage)
| father = Hong Taiji
| mother = Empress Xiaoduanwen
| succession1 = Princess Consort Chahar of the First Rank
| reign1 = 1636 – 1675
}}
{{Chinese
| s = 固倫溫莊公主
| t =
| p = Gùlún Wēnzhuāng Gōngzhǔ
}}
Gurun Princess Wenzhuang (固倫溫莊公主; 9 August 1625 – 1663), personal name Makata (馬喀塔), was a princess of the Qing dynasty. She was a daughter of Hong Taiji born by his Mongol wife, Empress Xiaoduanwen.Gurun was an imperial title used for daughters born by the primary wife of am emperor.
Life
Lady Makata born on 9 August 1625, her biological mother was the future Empress Xiaoduanwen, who at that time was only a primary consort of Hong Taiji.
On the 10th day of the first lunar month in the tenth year of Tiancong (1636), Makata married Ejei Khan, last khagan of Northern Yuan dynasty.Manwen Laodang (滿文老檔)·第十一函·第一册 He was granted the title of First Rank Prince.{{Cite book|last=Hummel|first=Arthur W.|date=2018|title=Eminent Chinese of the Qing Period|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0_V5DwAAQBAJ&q=princess+makata|pages=Pag.304|doi=|isbn=9789004218017}} She remained childless during her first marriage. In the 5th of Chongde, Huang Taiji and his wives went hunting together with Princess Makata and her husband.
After her first husband's death, she married Abunai, a younger brother of Ejei Khan, in 1645.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FP_cIARMHGEC&q=princess+makata|title=Journal of Asian History|publisher=O. Harrassowitz|year=1978|pages=Pag 60|language=English}} She gave birth to two sons during her second marriage, Borni (布尔尼){{Cite book|last=Louise Lux|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IfxVAAAAYAAJ&q=princess+makata|title=The Unsullied Dynasty & the Kʻang-hsi Emperor|publisher=Mark One Printing|year=1998|pages=Pag 173|language=English}} and Lubuzung (罗布藏).{{Cite book|last=Qi Ziping|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A7OTCgAAQBAJ&q=%E5%9B%BA%E5%80%AB%E6%BA%AB%E8%8E%8A%E9%95%B7%E5%85%AC%E4%B8%BB|title=駙馬列傳|publisher=雲書bestbook}}
In 1657, during the reign of Shunzhi, she was granted the title of Princess of the First Rank (固倫長公主) . Two year later, she was named Imperial Princess Yongning of the First Rank (固倫永寧長公主).
During the end of Shunzhi reign, her title was renamed. She became Princess Wenzhuang of the First Rank (固倫溫莊公主).Zhao Erxun, Whu Shijian,Draft History of Qing, Vol.166: [https://zh.m.wikisource.org/wiki/%E6%B8%85%E5%8F%B2%E7%A8%BF/%E5%8D%B7166 List of Qing Dynasty Princesses.] (in Chinese)
Family
Parents:
- Father: Hong Taiji, Emperor Wen of the Aisin Gioro clan (皇太極 文皇帝 愛新覺羅氏)
- Mother: Jerjer, Empress Xiaoduanwen of the Khorchin Borjigit clan (孝端文皇后 博爾濟吉特氏)
Consort:
- Prince Consort (驸马): Ejei Khan, Prince Chahar of the First Rank (額哲 察哈尔部氏; d. 1641) of the Chahar Borjigin clan {{Cite book|last=Michael Dillon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kp6iDQAAQBAJ&dq=ejei+khan&pg=PT139|title=Encyclopedia of Chinese History|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=978-1317817154|language=English}}
- Prince Consort (驸马): Abunai, Prince Chahar of the First Rank (阿布奈 察哈尔部氏; d. 1675) of the Chahar Borjigin clan
- Borni (布尔尼; 1654 – 1675 ), Prince Chahar of the First Rank (察哈尔亲王), first son
- Lubuzung (罗布藏; d.1675), second son
Ancestry
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