Human Emperor King (人皇王)

Overview

The translated histories identify Human Emperor King as a royal family member and ruler. This record brings together 9 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Human Emperor King	人皇王	Rén huáng wáng
Title	Emperor Ren	人皇王	Rén Huáng Wáng
Title	Human Emperor King	人皇王	Rén huáng wáng
Title	Prince of Eastern Dan	東丹王	Dōngdān Wáng
Title	Yielding-the-Realm Emperor	讓國皇帝

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Title only
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0021
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:077:s0010

Roles

Royal Family Member
Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天顯四年 · Western Year: AD 929
Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0021
Source Date: Text: 太祖崩後 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0127
Source Date: Text: 橫渡議和時追述 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0046

Family

Immediate source-linked family. Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom, and select a person to open their record.

Parent of Emperor Shizong (世宗)
Kinship Term: direct eldest son / 嫡長 · Parentage: biological · Subject Birth Order: 1 · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Child of Taizu (太祖)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological
Child of Empress Dowager (太后)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0021, liaoshi:077:s0046

Works and attributed material

Kind: Unknown · Role: subject · Note: fled to Tang
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0050

Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: host · Action: welcomed-with-imperial-carriage-and-feathered-guard · Other Person Id: Yaogu (堯骨) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天顯四年 · Western Year: AD 929
Explicit · liaoshi:058:s0021

References in the histories

Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.

History of Liao, Chapter 58Volume 58 Treatises 28: Ceremonial Guards 4 · 1 passage

Open chapter

天顯四年，太宗幸遼陽府，人皇王備乘輿羽衛以迎。 In the fourth year of the Tianxian era (929), Emperor Taizong visited Liaoyang Prefecture, and the Human Emperor King prepared the imperial carriage and feathered guard to welcome him.

History of Liao, Chapter 77Volume 77 Biographies 7: Yelu Wuzhi, Yelu Hou, Yelu Antuan, Yelu Wa, Yelu Tuiyu, Yelu Talie · 8 passages

Open chapter

屋質借謁者籌執之，謂太后曰：「昔人皇王在，何故立嗣聖？」 Wuzhi took a counting stick from an attendant and, holding it, asked the empress dowager, "When Emperor Ren was still alive, why did you enthrone Emperor Sisheng?"

帝曰：「人皇王當立而不立，所以去之。」 The emperor said, "Emperor Ren should have been enthroned but was not—that is why I removed him."

屋質正色曰：「人皇王舍父母之國而奔唐，子道當如是耶？ Wuzhi said sternly, "Emperor Ren abandoned his parents' realm and fled to Tang—is that how a son should behave?

秋，上祭讓國皇帝於行宮，與群臣皆醉，察割弒帝。 That autumn the emperor sacrificed to the Yielding-the-Realm Emperor at the traveling palace; he and all his ministers were drunk when Chage assassinated him.

今東丹王赴朝，當立。 and that the Prince of Eastern Dan, now coming to court, should be enthroned.

以黨附東丹王，詔下獄，訊鞫，加以炮烙。 Accused of siding with the Prince of Eastern Dan, he was imprisoned by edict, interrogated, and tortured with branding irons.

安摶曰：「大王聰安寬恕，人皇王之嫡長； Antuan said, "Your Highness is wise, calm, and magnanimous, the eldest son of Emperor Ren by the direct line;

窪與耶律吼定策立世宗，乃令諸將曰：「大行上賓，神器無主，永康王人皇王之嫡長，天人所屬，當立； Wa and Yelu Hou resolved to enthrone Shizong, then told the generals, "The late emperor has departed; the throne stands vacant. Prince Yongkang is the direct eldest son of Emperor Ren and Heaven's chosen heir—he should be enthroned;