Five Dynasties · Royal Family Member

Liu Yun 劉赟

Died AD 951

Passages
71
Chapters
9
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Yun as an aristocrat, general, military officer, and named individual. This record brings together 71 passages from 9 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Liu Yun 劉赟 Liu Yun
Title Duke of Xiangyin 湘陰公
Surname Liu Liú
Descriptive kinship Liu Min's son Yun 其子赟
Personal Liu Yun
Personal name Liu Yun 劉赟 Liú Yūn
Title Prince of Xiangyin 湘陰公
Title Prince of Xiangyin Yun 湘陰公赟
Title Xuzhou military commissioner Yun 徐州節度使赟
Personal Yun Yūn
Personal name Yun Yūn
Personal Yun Yun
Personal Yun
Given Yun Yun
Given Yun Yūn

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • General
  • Military Officer
  • Named Individual
  • Official
  • Royal Family Member
  • Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

Family

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  • Child of Later Han Gaozu (漢高祖)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Kinship Term: took him as his own son / 以為己子 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Child of Liu Chong (劉崇)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Child of Shizu (世祖)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Child of Chong (崇)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

  • Label: Kaifu Yitong Sansi, acting Grand Preceptor, supreme pillar of state / 開府儀同三司,檢校太師、上柱國 · Action: appointed
  • Label: military governor of Wuning / 武寧軍節度使 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 乾祐元年 · Western Year: AD 948
  • Label: Military governor of Xuzhou / 徐州節度使 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 乾祐元年 · Western Year: AD 948
  • Label: vice grand councilor / 同平章事 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 二年 · Western Year: AD 949
  • Label: Acting Third Rank / 開府儀同三司 · Action: granted
  • Label: honorary Grand Preceptor / 檢校太師 · Action: granted
  • Label: military governor of Xuzhou / 徐州節度使 · Action: held
  • Label: Wuning military commissioner / 武寧軍節度使 · Action: held
  • Label: Xuzhou military commissioner / 徐州節度使 · Action: held
  • Label: Supreme Pillar of State / 上柱國 · Action: granted
  • Title: Duke of Xiangyin / 湘陰公 · Action: demoted-to
  • Title: Duke of Xiangyin / 湘陰公 · Action: enfeoffed
  • Title: Duke of Xiangyin / 湘陰公 · Action: held
  • Status: confined · Action: imprisoned · Place: outer lodge / 外館
  • Label: demoted and enfeoffed Duke of Xiangyin / 降授…封湘陰公 · Action: demoted
  • Status: demotion · Action: demoted · Title: Duke of Xiangyin / 湘陰公
  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾祐三年冬十一月 · Western Year: AD 950

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: used as a pawn in Zhou usurpation; not Han principal heir · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 102Volume 102 Book of Later Jin 4: Emperor Yin Annals 2 · 1 passage
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 104Volume 104 Book of Later Jin 6: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 105Volume 105 Book of Later Jin 7: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 28 passages
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 11Volume 11 Later Zhou Annals 2: Taizu · 4 passages
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 12Volume 12 Later Zhou Annals 3: Shizong, Emperor Gong · 2 passages
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 18Volume 18: The Later Han Imperial Family · 25 passages
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 50Volume 50 Miscellaneous Biographies 30: Wang Jun, Wang Yin, Liu Ci, Wang Huan, Zhe Congruan · 2 passages
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 70Volume 70: Hereditary House of Eastern Han · 6 passages
New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 71Volume 71: Timeline for the Hereditary Houses of the Ten Kingdoms · 2 passages