Gaozu (高祖) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Gaozu as a royal family member and ruler. This record brings together 4 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	Gaozu	高祖	Gaozu
Temple	Gaozu	高祖	Gaozu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Royal Family Member
Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Manner: illness · Note: lay ill when entrusting Chongrui · Date Context: Qualitative: final illness before the succession dispute
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:009:s0187

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 高祖疾病托孤 · Western Year: AD 946
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Family

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Sibling of Jingru (敬儒)
Kinship Term: imperial uncle / 皇伯 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: uncertain · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Parent of Chongrui (重睿)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of Shi Chonggui (石重貴)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: claimed · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Relationship State: uncertain · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: claimed · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Relationship State: uncertain · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment

Kinship Role: sons · Count: 2 · Note: plural sons already born; Chongrui is named among them
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Places and affiliations

Label: Later Jin / 晉 · Relation: ruled
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Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: actor · Action: entrusted-heir-on-sickbed · Other Person Id: Chongrui (重睿) · Intermediary Person Id: Feng Dao (馮道)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:009:s0187
Relation: entrusted-to · Person Id: Feng Dao (馮道) · Regarding Person Id: Chongrui (重睿)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: had-biological-sons-so-Chonggui-could-not-be-lawful-heir · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 9Volume 9 Later Jin Annals 2: the Emperor That Fled · 4 passages

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蓋出帝於高祖，得為子而不得為後者，高祖自有子也。 Between the Fleeing Emperor and Gaozu he might count as a son, but he could not be made heir, for Gaozu already had sons of his own.

方高祖疾病，抱其子重睿置於馮道懷中而托之，出帝豈得立邪？ On Gaozu’s sickbed he laid his son Chongrui in Feng Dao’s arms and entrusted the boy to him—how then could the Fleeing Emperor have been raised to the throne?

晉之大臣，既違禮廢命而立之，以謂出帝為高祖子則得立，為敬儒子則不得立，於是深諱其所生而絕之，以欺天下為真高祖子也。 Jin’s chief ministers, having defied ritual and the dying command in placing him on the throne, reasoned that if the Fleeing Emperor were counted as Gaozu’s son he could reign, but not if he were Jingru’s son; so they buried his true parentage and cut it off, palming him off to the world as Gaozu’s own.

使高祖無子，出帝得為後而立以正，則不待絕其所生以為欺也。 Had Gaozu had no sons, and the Fleeing Emperor been made a lawful heir and enthroned in proper form, there would have been no call to sever his natural ties as a lie.