Five Dynasties · Ruler of Later Han

Gaozu 高祖

First attested AD 947; died AD 948

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Gaozu was a ruler of Later Han.

Life and dates

Death

AD 948 乾祐元年正月二十七日
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 101, passage 5

Attested activity

AD 948 乾祐元年正月二十七日
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 101, passage 5
AD 947 to AD 948 國初至乾祐元年
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 101, passages 4-5

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Emperor Yin (隱皇帝)
son 子 · paternal line
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 101, passage 1

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Han 後漢 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 101, passages 1, 5
At Luoyang 洛 · Relation Traveled to
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 101, passage 17
At Taiyuan 太原 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 101, passage 3

Events and relationships

Chose reign title Qianyou
Political · Actor
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 101, passage 10

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 101Volume 101 Book of Later Jin 3: Emperor Yin Annals 1 · 6 passages

隱皇帝，諱承祐，高祖第二子也。 Emperor Yin, whose personal name was Chengyou, was Gaozu's second son.

高祖鎮太原，署節院使，累官至檢校尚書右僕射。 While Gaozu was stationed at Taiyuan, he was appointed military commissioner of the headquarters staff and rose through the ranks to Acting Minister of the Right in the Department of State Affairs.

乾祐元年正月二十七日，高祖崩，秘不發喪。 On the twenty-seventh day of the first month of the first year of Qianyou, Gaozu died; the court kept his death secret and did not yet announce mourning.

宣制畢，有頃，召文武百僚赴萬歲殿內，降大行皇帝遺制，云：「周王承祐，可於柩前即皇帝位。 After the edict had been proclaimed, the court soon summoned the full civil and military establishment into the Hall of Ten Thousand Years and issued the late emperor's testamentary decree: "Prince of Zhou Chengyou shall take the throne at once before the coffin.

初，高祖欲改年號，中書門下進擬「乾和」二字，高祖改為乾祐，至是與御名相符。 Earlier Gaozu had planned to change the reign title. The Secretariat and Chancellery proposed the two characters "Qianhe," but Gaozu changed it to Qianyou; at this point it matched the reigning emperor's personal name.

初，契丹犯京師，侯益、趙贊皆受其命，節制岐、蒲，聞高祖入洛，頗懷反仄。 Earlier, when the Khitan seized the capital, Hou Yi and Zhao Zan had both accepted Khitan orders and held Qi and Pu. Learning that Gaozu had entered Luoyang, they grew deeply uneasy.