Sui and Tang · Ruler

Founding Emperor 太祖

Tàizǔ

Attested AD 880 - AD 908

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Founding Emperor was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 880 to AD 908 太祖在太原
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 44, passage 9

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Tang 後唐 · Relation Ruled
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 44, passage 9

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 44Volume 44 Book of Later Tang 20: Mingzong Annals 10 · 1 passage

帝歎曰：「太祖在太願，騎軍不過七千，先皇自始至終馬才及萬。 The Emperor sighed and said, "When the Founding Emperor was at Taiyuan his cavalry numbered no more than seven thousand; throughout his reign the late Emperor had barely ten thousand horses.