Last Liang Emperor (梁末帝)

Overview

Last Liang Emperor was a ruler.

PeriodFive Dynasties

IdentityHistorical · Male · Title only

Roles

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Life and dates

Death

AD 923 莊宗入汴
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 64, passage 65

Attested activity

AD 913 乾化三年
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 64, passage 9
AD 916 貞明二年
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 64, passage 57

Places and affiliations

Later Liang 梁
Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 64, passage 9

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 64Volume 64 Book of Later Tang 40: Biographies 16: Hou Yanwei, Wang Yanqiu, Dai Siyuan, Zhu Hanbin, Kong Qing, Liu Qi, Zhou Zhiyu · 6 passages

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乾化三年，與袁象先同誅朱友珪，梁末帝授洺州刺史，轉河陽留後。 In the third year of Qianhua he joined Yuan Xiangxian in killing Zhu Yougui; the Last Liang Emperor made him prefect of Ming, then regent of Heyang.

梁末帝嗣位，以晏球為龍驤四軍都指揮使。 When the Last Liang Emperor took the throne, he made Yanqiu overall commander of the four Dragon-Soaring armies.

貞明二年四月十九日夜，汴州捉生都將李霸等作亂，縱火焚剽，攻建國門，梁末帝登樓拒戰。 On the night of the nineteenth day of the fourth month of the second year of Zhenming, Li Ba and other commanders of the Bianzhou foraging corps mutinied, setting fires and looting as they attacked the Jianguo Gate; the Last Liang Emperor mounted the tower to fight them off.

梁末帝見騎軍討賊，呼曰：「非吾龍驤之士乎？」 The Last Liang Emperor saw the cavalry fighting the rebels and called out, "Are those not my Dragon-Soaring men?"

至封丘，聞梁末帝殂，即解甲降於莊宗。 At Fengqiu he learned that the Last Liang Emperor was dead and at once laid down his arms and surrendered to Emperor Zhuangzong.

屬燕將張萬進殺滄州留後劉繼威，以城歸梁，末帝命思遠鎮之。 When the Yan general Zhang Wanjin killed the regent of Cang, Liu Jiwei, and surrendered the city to Liang, the Last Emperor sent Siyuan to take command there.