Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Statesman and Warlord

King Xianwu 獻武王

Xianwu Wang

Attested AD 531 - AD 547

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

King Xianwu was a statesman and Warlord.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 531 to AD 547 獻武王
Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 91, passage 204

Career and standing

King Xianwu 獻武王
Held
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 204

Events and relationships

Posthumous stele composed
AD 547 方使之作獻武王碑文 · Commemoration · Honoree · With Wen Zisheng (溫子升)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 204

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Wei 91, passage 204

References in the histories

Book of Wei, Chapter 91Volume 85: Men of Letters: Yuan Yue, Pei Jingxian, Lu Guan, Feng Su, Xing Cang, Pei Bomao, Xing Xin · 1 passage

方使之作獻武王碑文，既成，乃餓諸晉陽獄，食弊襦而死，棄尸路隅，沒其家口。 He was just then having him write the inscription for King Xianwu. When it was done, he left him to starve in the Jinyang prison; he died gnawing rotten rags. His body was thrown by the road, and his entire household was seized.