Life

Yihe was born on 14 March 1844 to Imperial Noble Consort Zhuangshun, lady Uya in the Garden of Elegant Spring in Yuanmingyuan. Yihe had also one elder brother, Yixuan, and one younger brother, Yihui.

In 1850, Yihe started studying in the Imperial Study. His tutors were editor in the Hanlin academy Zhong Fucheng (重福承), future regent under the minority of the Tongzhi Emperor Kuang Yuan (匡源) and Weng Xincun (翁心存). That same year, Yihe was granted a title of Prince Zhong of the Second Rank (钟郡王) at the age of barely 6 years. Due to his prematurity, Yihe did not have sufficient rights to compete for succession.

Yihe's ultimate career started during the minority of Tongzhi Emperor. Yihe was appointed to make sacrifices at the Imperial Ancestral Temple in 1864. From that year on, he presided at the sacrificial rites in the Imperial ancestral temple on behalf of the teenage emperor and two empresses dowagers and Shamanic rites in the autumn 1866. In 1865, he was entrusted with the affairs of the Hall of Uprightness and Objectivity (中正殿).

Yihe died in 1868 and was posthumously honoured as Prince Zhongduan of the Second Rank.

Family

Yihe was married to lady Niohuru, daughter of first class marquis Chong'en (一等侯崇恩) and grand niece of Empress Xiaoherui. As Yihe did not have children, Zaiying and Zaitao were adopted as his successors.

----Consorts:

• Primary consort, lady Niohuru (嫡福晋钮祜禄氏, d.1871)

Issue:

• Adopted son: Prince of the Third Rank acting as Prince of the Second Rank Zaiying (载滢), biological son of Yixin, Prince Gongzhong of the First Rank and Secondary Princess Consort Gongzhong, lady Xuegiya (侧福晋薛佳氏). Adopted pursuing the request of princess consort Zhongduan of the Second Rank. Stripped of his title for the involvement into the Boxer Rebellion.

• Adopted son: Prince of the Third Rank acting as Prince of the Second Rank Zaitao, biological son of Yixuan, Prince Chunxian of the First Rank and Secondary Princess Consort Chunxian, Liugiya Cuiyan. Adopted on the decree of Empress Dowager Cixi.

Family tree

生平

奕詥生于道光二十四年（1844年）正月廿六，生母是琳妃烏雅氏，他是奕譞的同母弟弟。奕詥被封為鐘郡王，同治帝即位，命免宴見叩拜、奏事書名。同治三年，分府，仍廷內行走。同治七年（1868年）十一月初四，奕詥病死，謚號端，無子。以恭忠親王奕訢子載瀅為後，襲貝勒。載瀅因事被奪爵位，仍歸于奕訢一脈。又以醇賢親王奕譞子載濤為後，襲貝勒，加郡王銜。

家庭

;妻妾

• 嫡福晉鈕祜祿氏，一等侯崇恩之女，嘉慶帝孝和睿皇后之侄孫女。同治三年十二月二十四日，廣儲司皮庫為領取成做鐘郡王迎娶福晉應用羊角燈需用物料工價之事上奏。同治七年十一月十四日，同治帝同意鐘郡王福晉所請，將載瀅給予鐘郡王為嗣且承襲貝勒的要求。同治十年十二月二十七日，廣儲司皮庫為領取修理鐘郡王福晉金棺前，安設伍供燈皮等項需用銀兩工價之事上奏。

;子女

• 第一子承繼子已革郡王銜多羅貝勒載瀅，咸豐十一年二月初一日亥時出生，和碩恭親王側福晉薛佳氏，文匯之女所生，同治七年十一月奉旨過繼為嗣，光緒二十六年九月因罪革爵，仍歸本支。

• 第二子承繼子郡王銜多羅貝勒載濤，光緒十三年五月初三日寅時出生，醇賢親王之側福晉劉佳氏，五品典衛德慶之女所生。光緒二十三年四月奉旨過繼與過繼與貝勒銜固山貝子奕謨為嗣，二十八年六月奉懿旨載濤承繼鐘端郡王奕詥為嗣，並承襲貝勒。嫡夫人姜佳氏大學士崇禮之女，庶夫人周佳氏德喜之女。五子：第一子未有名，第二子頭等頂戴溥佳，第三子頭品頂戴溥侒，第四子頭品頂戴溥伸，第五子溥僖。載濤死于1970年，享年84歲。