Shi Tianzhe

Shi Tianze (; 1202 – 5 March 1275), courtesy name Runfu (潤甫), posthumous name Prince Zhongwu of Zhenyang (鎮陽忠武王), was a general and official of the Mongol Empire and the Yuan dynasty. He was subsequently promoted to the post of Right Grand Chancellor of the Secretariat and became the first ethnic Han Grand Chancellor of the Yuan dynasty. He played a key role in early Yuan politics.

Name Shi Tianze is also mentioned under the name Samka ba'tur in Persian historical sources such as the Jami' al-tawarikh. This name is derived from the Chinese word "三哥 (sangge)," meaning "third son".

Life Shi Tianze was an ethnic Han who lived in the Jin dynasty. Interethnic marriage between Han and Jurchen became common at this time. His father was Shi Bingzhi (Shih Ping-chih, 史秉直). Shi Bingzhi was married to a Jurchen woman (surname Na-ho) and a Han woman (surname Chang), it is unknown which of them was Shi Tianze's mother.

Shi Tianze married two Jurchen women, a Han woman, and a Korean woman, and his son Shi Gang was born to one of his Jurchen wives. His Jurchen wives's surnames were Mo-nien and Na-ho, his Korean wife's surname was Li, and his Han wife's surname was Shi.

Family of Shi Tianze