永琮 Yǒngcóng
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哲親王永琮
哲親王永琮，高宗第七子，與端慧太子同為嫡子。端慧太子薨，高宗屬意焉。乾隆十二年十二月，以痘殤，方二歲。上諭謂：「先朝未有以元後正嫡紹承大統者，朕乃欲行先人所未行之事，邀先人不能獲之福，此乃朕過耶！」命喪儀視皇子從優，諡曰悼敏。嘉慶四年三月，追封哲親王。
Yongcong, Prince Zhe of the First Rank
Yongcong, Prince Zhe of the First Rank, was the seventh son of Gaozong and, like Crown Prince Duanhui, a son of the principal wife. After Crown Prince Duanhui died, Gaozong set his hopes on him. In the twelfth month of the twelfth year of Qianlong he died young of smallpox, only two years old. The emperor's edict said: "Under the former reigns no son of the first empress by the principal wife has ever succeeded to the great line. We wished to do what Our forebears had not done and to seek a blessing that Our forebears could not obtain; this was Our fault!" He ordered that the funeral rites be those of an imperial son, made more generous, and gave him the posthumous name Daomin. In the third month of the fourth year of Jiaqing he was posthumously made Prince Zhe of the First Rank. Edit
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Source: 清史稿 卷二百二十一 列传八 诸王七 (Draft History of Qing, juan 221, Biographies 8: Princes 7)
Chinese Wikipedia: 永琮 · Baidu Baike: 永琮 (an article of the same name, not checked to be him)
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- [Source] 清史稿 卷一百六十五 表五 皇子世表五 Draft History of Qing, juan 165, Table 5: Genealogical Table of the Emperors' Sons 5
- [Collation note] 表云：「高宗第七子。乾隆十二年薨，諡曰悼敏阿哥，嘉慶四年追封哲親王」 The table: “Seventh son of Gaozong. In Qianlong 12 (1747), died, given the posthumous name Daomin'age. In Jiaqing 4 (1799), posthumously made Prince Zhe of the First Rank.”