678 conclusion
TurfanIn 612, Emperor Yang of Sui enfeoffed a lady of the Yü-wen clan^88
as Princess of Hua-jung and married her to the king of Turfan, Ch’ü
Po-ya. When he died in 619, she married his son and successor Ch’ü
Wen-t’ai. He died in 640.
FerghanaIn 744, Hsüan-tsung enfeoffed a lady of the T’ang imperial house as
Princess of Ho-yi and married her to the king of Ferghana.
The Eastern TurksIn 579, Emperor Ching of Northern Chou had enfeoffed a lady of
the imperial house as Princess of Ch’ien-chin and in 580 had mar-
ried her to the Sha-po-lüeh Qaghan of the Eastern Turks. She was a
granddaughter of Yü-wen-t’ai (d.556).^89 In 581, Emperor Wen of Sui
had granted her his own surname (Yang) and had changed her title to
Princess of Ta-yi. She resented the fall of Northern Chou and agitated
among the Turks against Sui. Emperor Wen therefore changed her
title to “Evermore Mean Princess”, then demoted her to commoner,
and between 593 and 597 managed to have her murdered.
In 597, Emperor Wen agreed to marry a lady of the Sui imperial
house, the Princess of An-yi, to the T’u-li Qaghan (from 599 called
the Yi-li-chen-tou-ch’i-min Qaghan), a brother and rival of the Hsieh-
chia-shih-to-na-tu-lan Qaghan of the Eastern Turks. She was escorted
to the camp of her bridegroom in 597 and died no later than 599.
In 599, Emperor Wen married the Princess of Yi-ch’eng, another
lady of the Sui imperial house, to the widowed Yi-li-chen-tou-ch’i-min
Qaghan. When he died in 609, she married his son and successor,
the Shih-pi Qaghan. He died in c.619, whereupon she married his
younger brother and successor, the Ch’u-lo Qaghan. When he died
in 620, she married his younger brother and successor, the Hsieh-li
Qaghan. The T’ang resented her hostility, and in 629 she was killed
by its forces.
(^88) She may have been a member of the imperial clan of Northern Chou.
(^89) Father of the first emperor of Northern Chou.