Why do you have a husband? Of course, because the previous two husbands left too early, the emperor's sister certainly could not end up alone.
Emperor Wu of Han's mother, Empress Wang, had three daughters under her knees, in addition to Princess Nangong and Princess Longxu, the most famous was Princess Pingyang, but "Pingyang" was not her name, nor was it her title.
What is the name of Princess Pingyang, no one knows, she has just been sealed in Yangxin County, so she is called Princess Yangxin.
Later, because he married Cao Shou, the Marquis of Pingyang, he was also called Princess Pingyang, which is also a habitual title, and what his title and name were, there is no record, and later generations have called it Princess Pingyang and made a synonym.
First married Cao Shou
Princess Pingyang's first husband, Cao Shou, was the great-grandson of Cao San, a hero of the early Han Dynasty, Cao San, also known as Cao In the "Xiao Gui Cao Sui".
Cao Shen himself is not outstanding, and his family is not as good as before in the great-grandson's generation, but the nobles are nobles after all, Cao Shou is a marquis, fiefdom Pingyang, so the princess married him and called princess Pingyang.
However, although Cao Shou was named "Shou", he was not a long-lived one, and the princess became a widow at a young age.
Cao Shou and Princess Pingyang had a child under their knees, that is, Cao Xiang, who inherited the title after Cao Shou's death, and Cao Xiang married Princess Weichang, the eldest daughter of Emperor Wu of Han, and the family was also considered prominent.
Remarry Xiahou Po
Princess Pingyang, as the sister of Emperor Wu of Han, of course, could not spend the second half of her life alone in an empty house at a young age, and Empress Wang, the birth mother of Emperor Wu of Han, remarried her daughter for the second half of her life.
Princess Pingyang's second husband, Xiahou Po, was a great-grandson of Xiahou Yuan, a chancellor of the early Han Dynasty, and held the title of Marquis of Ruyin.
From the point of view of birth, Xiahou Po was not inferior to Cao Shou at all, but Xiahou Po, a person who had no skills, he also liked to do things strangely, and in the second year of Yuan Ding, he had an affair with his father's imperial maid and committed suicide in fear of sin.
Because Xiahou quite committed a major crime against the law of etiquette, and he killed himself, his Marquis of Ruyin was also abolished, and the princess of Pingyang was widowed again, but the princess at this time was already nearly middle-aged.
Married to Wei Qing
Shortly after Xiahou Committed Suicide, Cao Xiang also died young, and Princess Pingyang, who had lost her only son, was devastated.
As we all know, Emperor Wu of Han's successor Wei Zifu was originally a geji of the Princess Pingyang family, and Wei Zifu's mother Wei Mi and brother Wei Qing were all subordinates in the Princess Mansion, and after Wei Zifu and Wei Qing's sisters and brothers were favored, they also made Princess Pingyang valued.
Wei Zifu gave birth to emperor Wu of Han's eldest son, emperor and eldest daughter, and became the successor after Chen, and Wei Qing also changed from a horse breeder to a great general with great military achievements, along with his nephew Huo Fuyi, known as the Imperial Double Bi.
Emperor Wu of Han took the initiative and married his sister Princess Pingyang, who had already become a grandmother, to Wei Qing, and the two had no children under their knees, and Wei Qing's children were not born from Princess Pingyang, and Princess Pingyang was eventually buried with Wei Qing.
The reason why Princess Pingyang has three husbands is not complicated:
First, it is not surprising that han dynasty women remarried and remarried, empress dowager Bo, the biological mother of Emperor Wen of Han, and empress dowager Wang, the biological mother of Emperor Wu of Han, both remarried, and Wei Zifu was a mother and had children from different births, which was no problem at all at that time;
Second, princess Pingyang has a noble status, lost her husband twice at a young age, and naturally cannot be alone in the second half of her life;
Third, when she remarried Wei Qing, Princess Pingyang had become a grandmother, and Emperor Wu of Han married his sister to Wei Qing, mainly because Wei Qing was born in a humble background and was once a princess mansion Manu, this marriage was mainly to enhance Wei Qing's glory, but also to find a stable rest of her sister's life.
In ancient times, it was not uncommon for princesses to remarry, especially in the Han Dynasty, when princessEss of Pingyang had three husbands, which was also a common thing.