Sui and Tang · Ruler

Emperor Xuanzong 宣宗

Xuānzōng

Attested AD 846

Passages
6
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Xuanzong as a ruler. This record brings together 6 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

RolesRuler

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Emperor Xuanzong 宣宗 Xuānzōng
Temple Emperor Xuanzong 宣宗 Xuānzōng

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 宣宗嗣位 · Western Year: AD 846
    Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:184:s0013

Career and standing

  • Action: succeeded to throne · Western Year: AD 846 · Source Date: Text: 宣宗嗣位
    Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0013

Events and relationships

  • Kind: legal-political · Role: ruler · Action: let the Feng Jian matter drop
    Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0023

References in the histories

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 184Volume 184 Biographies 109: Ma, Yang, Lu, Lu · 6 passages
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宣宗嗣位，白敏中當國，凡德裕所不善，悉不次用之，故植以刑部侍郎領諸道鹽鐵轉運使，遷戶部，俄同中書門下平章事，進中書侍郎。 After Emperor Xuanzong took the throne, Bai Minzhong directed the state; everyone Li Deyu had disliked was promoted out of turn, so Zhi served as Vice Minister of Justice while heading the salt-and-iron transport commissioners of all circuits, moved to the Ministry of Revenue, and soon became Grand Councillor, rising to Vice Director of the Secretariat.