Five Dynasties · Ruler

Martial Ancestor 太祖

Taizu

Attested AD 929

Passages
1
Chapters
1
Histories
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Overview

The translated histories identify Martial Ancestor as a ruler. This record brings together 1 passage from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Martial Ancestor 太祖 Taizu
Temple name Martial Ancestor 太祖 Taizu

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 十一月癸未 · Inherited Narrative Context: true · Western Year: AD 929
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:040:s0164

Family

  • Ancestor of Zhuangzong (莊宗)
    Kinship Term: Martial Ancestor / 太祖 · Line: paternal
    Kinship Term: Martial Ancestor / 太祖 · Line: paternal

Places and affiliations

  • Label: Later Tang ancestral line / 後唐 · Relation: ancestral-ruler-of
    Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:040:s0164

Works and attributed material

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 40Volume 40 Book of Later Tang 16: Mingzong Annals 6 · 1 passage