Princess Jincheng
Princess Jincheng (Tibetan: ཀིམ་ཤེང་ཁོང་ཅོ་, Wylie: Kyim-sheng Kung-co , Chinese: 金城公主; pinyin: Jīnchéng Gōngzhǔ; Wade–Giles: Chin-ch'eng Kung-chu, c. 698 – 739), surnamed Li, was a member of a minor branch of the royal clan of the Chinese Tang dynasty.
Princess Jincheng was a daughter of Li Shouli, a prince of Tang China. She grew up in the court, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang regarded her as step-daughter.
In 710, she was granted by Emperor Zhongzong to King Me Agtsom of Tibet for marriage, an involuntary actor of the emperor's heqin (marriage alliance) policy.
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