Sui and Tang · Ruler

Emperor Zhaozong of Tang 唐昭宗

Táng Zhāozōng

Attested AD 895 - AD 896

Passages: 7
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Emperor Zhaozong of Tang was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 896 三年正月
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 105
AD 895 二年
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passages 90, 95-96, 98, 100-101

Career and standing

emperor 天子
Held
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passages 90, 95

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 90

Events and relationships

Again named Zhang Jun chancellor then revoked
AD 896 三年正月 · Political · Ruler · With Zhang Jun (张浚)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passages 105, 107
Brokered peace and enfeoffed Keyong Prince of Jin
AD 895 二年 · Political · Ruler · With Li Keyong (李克用)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 100
First appointed Cui Yin then allowed Ke
AD 895 二年 · Political · Ruler · With Wang Ke (王珂)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 90
Returned to the capital
AD 895 二年 · Political · Ruler · At Chang’an 京师
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 98
Sent princes Jiepi and Yun to Keyong
AD 895 二年 · Political · Ruler · With Li Keyong (李克用)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 96
Withdrew to Shimen amid capital chaos
AD 895 二年 · Political · Ruler · At Shimen 石门
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 95

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 4Volume 4 Later Tang Annals 1: Zhuangzong 1 · 7 passages

昭宗初两难之，乃以宰相崔胤为河中节度使，既而许克用立珂。 Zhaozong hesitated, named Chief Councillor Cui Yin military governor of Hezhong, then yielded to Keyong and recognized Ke.

谋奉天子幸邠州，茂贞假子阎圭亦谋劫幸凤翔，京师大乱，昭宗出居于石门。 Court factions schemed to move the emperor to Binzhou while Maozhen’s adopted son Yan Gui plotted to drag him to Fengxiang. Chang’an erupted in chaos and Zhaozong retreated to Shimen.

克用军留月余不进，昭宗遣延王戒丕、丹王允兄事克用，且告急。 Keyong camped for more than a month without advancing. Zhaozong sent the Prince of Yan, Jiepi, and the Prince of Dan, Yun, to treat him as an elder brother and plead for urgent aid.

昭宗还京师。 Zhaozong came back to Chang’an.

克用还军云阳，请击茂贞，昭宗慰劳克用，使与茂贞解仇以纾难，拜克用「忠正平难功臣」，封晋王。 Keyong withdrew to Yunyang and asked leave to attack Maozhen. Zhaozong praised him, brokered peace with Maozhen to end the emergency, granted him the title “Meritorious, Upright, and Pacifying in Hard Times,” and enfeoffed him Prince of Jin.

是时，晋军渭北，遇雨六十日，或劝克用入朝，克用未决，都押衙盖寓曰：「天子还自石门，寝未安席，若晋兵渡渭，人情岂复能安？ The Jin army was then camped north of the Wei, lashed by rain for sixty days. Some urged Keyong to go to court; he hesitated. His chief military adjutant Gai Yu said, “The emperor has only just come back from Shimen—he has not even had time to rest. If Jin troops cross the Wei, who in the capital will feel safe?

三年正月，昭宗复以张浚为相，克用曰：「此朱全忠之谋也。」 In the first month of the third year Zhaozong again named Zhang Jun chief councillor. Keyong said, “Quanzhong is behind this.”