Chongrui (重睿) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Chongrui as a family member, military officer, and royal family member. This record brings together 9 passages from 5 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Chongrui	重睿	Chóngruì
Personal name	Chongrui	重睿	Chóngruì
Personal name	Chongrui	重睿	Chongrui
Given	Chongrui	重睿	Chongrui
Personal	Chongrui	重睿	Chongrui
Descriptive kinship	emperor's younger brother	皇弟
Descriptive kinship	imperial younger brother Chongrui	皇弟重睿
Title	Prince Chongrui	皇弟重睿	Huangdi Chongrui
Descriptive kinship	Son of Gaozu	高祖子

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:086:s0034, jiuwudaishi:087:s0057, xinwudaishi:009:s0187, xinwudaishi:029:s0030
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:009:s0001

Roles

Family Member
Military Officer
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 出帝北遷 · Western Interval: Start: AD 947 · End: AD 947
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:087:s0062
Source Date: Text: 天福七年 · Western Year: AD 942
Explicit · xinwudaishi:009:s0002
Source Date: Text: 天福八年秋 · Western Year: AD 943
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:029:s0068, xinwudaishi:029:s0070
Source Date: Text: 契丹犯京师 · Western Year: AD 946
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:029:s0030
Source Date: Text: 明年正月癸卯 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:085:s0097
Source Date: Text: 開運四年 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:086:s0034
Source Date: Text: 高祖崩 · Western Year: AD 942
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:087:s0060, jiuwudaishi:087:s0059
Source Date: Text: 高祖疾病托孤 · Western Year: AD 946
Explicit · xinwudaishi:009:s0187

Family

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Child of Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖)
Kinship Term: father / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: imperial younger brother / 皇弟 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: seventh son / 第七子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Subject Birth Order: 7
Kinship Term: young son / 幼子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kin of Deposed Emperor of Jin (晋出帝)
Kinship Term: imperial younger brother / 皇弟 · Subject Role: younger-brother · Object Role: elder-brother · Subject Relative Age: younger · Line: paternal
Sibling of Shi Chonggui (石重貴)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 皇弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: uncertain
Kinship Term: imperial younger brother / 皇弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger
Kinship Term: younger brother / 皇弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger
Child of Gaozu (高祖)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: military commissioner of Xu / 許州節度使 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:087:s0061
Status: designated-for-entrustment · Action: placed-in-feng-dao-arms
Explicit · xinwudaishi:009:s0187
Status: not-enfeoffed-as-prince · Negated: true · Label: had not yet received a princely title / 未封王
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:087:s0061

Places and affiliations

Label: Later Jin / 晉 · Relation: royal-member
Explicit · xinwudaishi:009:s0187

Events and relationships

Kind: travel · Role: subject · Action: followed-north · Other Person Id: Shi Chonggui (石重貴)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:087:s0062
Kind: travel · Role: traveler · Action: followed-north
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:086:s0034, jiuwudaishi:086:s0035
Kind: political · Role: candidate-heir · Other Person Id: Feng Dao (馮道)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:087:s0059
Relation: entrusted-to · Person Id: Feng Dao (馮道)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:009:s0187

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 85Volume 85 Book of Later Jin 11: Emperor Shao 4 · 1 passage

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癸卯，帝與皇太后李氏、皇太妃安氏、皇后馮氏、皇弟重睿、皇子延煦延寶俱北行，以宮嬪五十人、內官三十人、東西班五十人、醫官一人、控鶴官四人、禦廚七人、茶酒三人、儀鸞司三人、軍健二十人從行。 On guimao the emperor went north with Empress Dowager Li, Grand Imperial Consort An, Empress Feng, his brother Chongrui, and Princes Yanxu and Yanbao, attended by fifty palace women, thirty eunuchs, fifty court attendants, a physician, four Crane-Control officers, seven imperial cooks, three tea and wine servants, three from the Ceremonial Parasol bureau, and twenty guards.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 86Volume 86 Book of Later Jin 12: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage

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於是太后與馮氏、皇弟重睿。 Thereupon the empress dowager, Lady Feng, and the emperor's younger brother Chongrui

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 87Volume 87 Book of Later Jin 13: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 3 passages

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重睿。 Chongrui.

〈（案《契丹國志》：高祖憂悒成疾，一旦馮道獨對，高祖命幼子重睿出拜之，又令宦者抱置道懷中，蓋欲馮道輔立之。 (Note: According to the Khitan State Chronicles, Gaozu, weighed down by worry, fell ill. One day Feng Dao had a private audience; Gaozu ordered his young son Chongrui to come forth and bow to him, and had a eunuch place the child in Dao's arms—apparently intending Feng Dao to assist in installing him as heir.

《五代會要》：重睿，高祖第七子，許州節度使，未封王。 The Institutions of the Five Dynasties: Chongrui was Gaozu's seventh son, military commissioner of Xu, and had not yet received a princely title.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 9Volume 9 Later Jin Annals 2: the Emperor That Fled · 2 passages

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高祖六子，五皆早死，而重睿幼，故重貴得立。 Of Gaozu’s six sons five had died in childhood and Chongrui was still an infant, so the throne passed to Chonggui.

方高祖疾病，抱其子重睿置於馮道懷中而托之，出帝豈得立邪？ On Gaozu’s sickbed he laid his son Chongrui in Feng Dao’s arms and entrusted the boy to him—how then could the Fleeing Emperor have been raised to the throne?

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 29Volume 29 Later Jin Biographies 9: Sang Weihan, Jing Yanguang, Wu Luan · 2 passages

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帝饮酒过度得疾，维翰遣人阴白太后，请为皇弟重睿置师傅。 The emperor drank himself ill. Weihan secretly told the empress dowager to name tutors for Prince Chongrui.

又进帛五千匹，绵一千四百两，马二十二匹，玉鞍、衣袭、犀玉、金带等，请赐从官，自皇弟重睿，下至伴食刺史、重睿从者各有差。 He added five thousand bolts of silk, fourteen hundred catties of cotton, twenty-two horses, jade gear and gold belts for the court—from Chongrui to the humblest attendant, each by rank.