Emperor Wuzong (武宗)

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Wuzong as a named individual. This record brings together 10 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Emperor Wuzong	武宗
Temple	Emperor Wuzong	武宗

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Named Individual

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 至大元年至二年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1308 · End: AD 1309
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:117:s0035, yuanshi:117:s0037, yuanshi:117:s0045

Career and standing

Action: ascended throne · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至大元年 · Western Year: AD 1308
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:117:s0035, yuanshi:117:s0037

Works and attributed material

Kind: request · Role: requester · Other Person Id: Tele Temür (脫列帖木兒) · Summary: requested that Tele Temür accompany him while mustering troops in the northern steppe · Provenance: Mode: narrative-attribution · Speaker Person Id: Emperor Wuzong (武宗)
Explicit · yuanshi:117:s0084
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Tula (禿剌) · Summary: insisted he wished to board the boat · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Emperor Wuzong (武宗)
Explicit · yuanshi:117:s0038, yuanshi:117:s0039

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: suspected Tula of disloyal intent · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · yuanshi:117:s0044
Assessment: took Tula's proverb as a slight and bore a grudge · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · yuanshi:117:s0042

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 117Volume 117 Biographies 4: Belgutei, Jochi, Tula, Yahudou, Kuanchepuhua, Tiemu'er Buhua · 10 passages

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武宗即位，第功，封越王，錫金印，以紹興路為其分地。 When Emperor Wuzong ascended the throne, he reckoned merit and enfeoffed Tula as Prince of Yue, granting a gold seal and the Shaoxing circuit as his domain.

至大元年秋，武宗幸涼亭，將御舟，禿剌前止之。 In the autumn of the first year of Zhida, the emperor visited the Cool Pavilion and was about to take a boat when Tula stepped forward to restrain him.

帝曰：「爾何如？ The Emperor said, "What of it?

此蓋國俗儕輩相靳之語，而禿剌言之，武宗由是銜焉。 It was a proverb of the steppe by which companions kept one another honest — yet when Tula spoke it, Wuzong took it as a slight and harbored resentment.

既而大宴萬歲山，禿剌醉起，解其腰帶擲諸地，嗔目謂帝曰：「爾與我者，止此爾！」 Later, at a great feast on Longevity Hill, Tula rose drunk, loosed his belt and hurled it to the floor, glared at the emperor and cried, "All you have given me is no more than this!"

帝益疑其有異志。 The emperor suspected him all the more of treasonous intent.

武宗撫兵漠北，請以子脫列帖木兒從。 When Emperor Wuzong raised troops in the northern steppe, he asked that Yahudou's son Tele Temür accompany him.

武宗即位，以其父子勞效忠勤，益厚遇之，進封楚王，賜金印，置王傅，以駙馬都尉都剌哈之女弟弘吉剌氏為楚王妃，又以叛王察八兒親屬賜之。 When Emperor Wuzong ascended the throne, honoring the father and son's labor, merit, loyalty, and diligence, he treated them still more generously, advanced Yahudou to Prince of Chu, granted a gold seal, appointed a prince's tutor, made the younger sister of Chief Commandant of Horse Dulaqa of the Kongirat clan Princess of Chu, and also granted him relatives of the rebel prince Chabar.

今陛下洪福齊天，拔都罕之裔，首已附順，叛王察八兒舉族來歸，人民境土，悉為一家。 Now Your Majesty's fortune matches Heaven itself: the line of Batu Khan has led the way in submission, the rebel prince Chabar has brought his whole clan home, and peoples and lands are at last one household.

今請有以氏整飭之，則人將有所勸懲，惟陛下鑒之。」 I beg now that the imperial clan be regulated and set in order, so that men may know both reward and restraint — may Your Majesty take this to heart."