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Concubinage

an official union of lesser status than a marriage, often with status inequality between the partners

11 dated entries naming Concubinage, drawn from 11 separate years between 179 CE and 1324 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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2nd century

  • 179Beautiful Lady Yu, Chinese concubine and imperial consortsource

4th century

  • 396Emperor Jìn Ān Dì, age 14, succeeds his father Emperor Xiaowu as ruler of the Eastern Jin dynasty after he is murdered by his concubine Honoured Lady Zhang.source

6th century

7th century

  • 637Maria al-Qibtiyya, concubine of Muhammadsource

8th century

  • 719Yang Guifei, concubine of Xuan Zong (d. 756)source
  • 785Caliph Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi is poisoned by one of his concubines. He is succeeded by his son Al-Hadi, who becomes the fourth ruler of the Abbasid Caliphate.source
  • 796April 18 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered, probably at Corbridge, by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. Another rival, Torhtmund, slays Ealdred in revenge. Northumbria is plunged into chaos. The patrician Osbald is placed on the throne, but is deserted by his supporters after only 27 days. He flees from Lindisfarne to Pictland. Another faction brings back Æthelred I's old back-from-the-dead rival, Eardwulf, as the new king. He dismisses his wife and publicly takes a concubine. Eardwulf is alienated from Archbishop Eanbald of York.source

9th century

  • 840Yang, consort and concubine of Chinese Emperor Wenzong, forced suicidesource
  • 845February 22 – Wang, empress and concubine of Mu Zongsource

14th century

  • 1324Bayan Khutugh, Mongol concubine and empress (d. 1365)source

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