Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

Emperor Jing of Liang 敬帝

Liáng Jìngdì

Attested AD 555 - AD 557

Passages
12
Chapters
8
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Jing of Liang as a ruler. This record brings together 12 passages from 8 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Emperor Jing of Liang 敬帝 Liáng Jìngdì
Title Emperor Jing 敬帝
Title Emperor Jing 敬帝 Jing Di
Title Emperor Jing 敬帝 Jìngdì
Posthumous Emperor Jing 敬帝 Jìngdì
Alternate Emperor Jing of Liang 敬帝 Liáng Jìngdì
Title Emperor Jing of Liang 梁敬帝
Personal Emperor Jing of Liang 敬帝 Liang Jingdi
Temple name Emperor Jing of Liang 敬帝
Title Emperor Jing of Liang 梁敬帝 Liang Jing Di
Title the Honored Emperor 敬帝

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: Liang reign · Western Interval: Start: AD 555 · End: AD 557
    Explicit · chenshu:013:s0050
  • Western Interval: Start: AD 555 · End: AD 557 · Source Date: Text: 敬帝
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:006:s0177
  • Source Date: Text: 敬帝嗣位 · Western Interval: Start: AD 555 · End: AD 557
    Explicit · chenshu:025:s0048
  • Source Date: Text: 敬帝承制,追諡愍懷太子 · Western Interval: Start: AD 555 · End: AD 557
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:008:s0238
  • Source Date: Text: 敬帝承制 · Western Interval: Start: AD 555 · End: AD 557
    Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:018:s0020
  • Source Date: Text: 梁敬帝即位 · Western Year: AD 555
    Explicit · chenshu:014:s0055
  • Source Date: Text: 江陵陷 · Western Year: AD 555
    Explicit · chenshu:017:s0035
  • Source Date: Text: 江陵陷後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 555 · End: AD 557
    Explicit · chenshu:023:s0063

Family

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  • Child of Emperor Yuan (元帝)
    Kinship Term: house / 家 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
  • Kinship Role: house · Statement: met an unpropitious house / 遭家不造 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵) · Quantity: unspecified
    Explicit · liangshu:006:s0177

Career and standing

  • Status: acting-under-imperial-mandate · Action: held · Label: acting on imperial mandate / 承制
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0238
  • Status: abdication · Action: yielded-throne · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
    Explicit · liangshu:006:s0177

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

  • Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: met unpropitious house and inherited hardship; campaigns and punishments not under his control · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
    Explicit · liangshu:006:s0177
  • Kind: ritual · Role: authority · Action: posthumously-titled · Other Person Id: Xiao Yuanliang (元良) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 敬帝承制 · Western Interval: Start: AD 555 · End: AD 557
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0238
  • Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: yielded the throne high (abdicated) · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
    Explicit · liangshu:006:s0177

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: with no Yi and Huo to assist, could not but yield the throne high · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wei Zheng (魏徵)
    Explicit · liangshu:006:s0177

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 13Volume 13: Xu Shipu; Lu Xida; Zhou Fu; Xun Lang; Zhou Jiong · 1 passage
Book of Chen, Chapter 14Volume 14: Chen Chang; Chen Tanlang · 1 passage
Book of Chen, Chapter 17Volume 17: Wang Chong; Wang Tong; Yuan Jing · 3 passages
Book of Chen, Chapter 18Volume 18: Shen Zhong; Yuan Bi; Liu Zhongwei; Lu Shancai; Wang Zhi; Wei Zai · 2 passages
Book of Chen, Chapter 23Volume 23: Shen Junli; Wang Yang; Lu Shan · 2 passages
Book of Chen, Chapter 25Volume 25: Pei Ji; Sun Yang · 1 passage
Book of Liang, Chapter 6Volume 6: Emperor Jing · 1 passage
Book of Liang, Chapter 8Volume 8: Crown Prince Zhaoming; Crown Prince Ai; Crown Prince Minhuai · 1 passage