Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Ruler

Xiao Baojuan 蕭寶卷

Attested AD 498 - AD 501

Passages: 11
Chapters: 4
Histories: 3

Overview

The translated histories identify Xiao Baojuan as a royal family member and ruler. This record brings together 11 passages from 4 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xiao Baojuan	蕭寶卷	Xiao Baojuan
Personal name	Bao Juan	寶卷	Bao Juan
Personal name	Baojuan	寶卷
Title	Donghun	東昏
Title	Marquis of Donghun	東昏侯	Donghun Hou
Title	Prince of Fuling	涪陵王
Personal name	Xiao Baojuan	蕭寶卷	Xiao Baojuan
Personal name	Xiao Baojuan	蕭寶卷	Xiāo Bǎojuǎn
Title	young emperor	少帝	Shaodi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · nanqishu:008:s0071
Sex: male
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0007, weishu:081:s0095

Roles

Royal Family Member
Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 中興元年 · Western Year: AD 501
Explicit · nanqishu:008:s0071
Source Date: Text: 東昏卽位 · Western Interval: Start: AD 498 · End: AD 501
Explicit event contextual date · nanqishu:050:s0020
Source Date: Text: 東昏末 · Western Year: AD 501
Explicit · liangshu:014:s0287
Source Date: Text: 蕭寶卷在位 · Western Interval: Start: AD 498 · End: AD 501
Explicit · weishu:081:s0095

Family

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Child of Empress Jing (敬皇后)
Kinship Term: bore / 生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Child of Emperor Ming of Southern Qi (明帝)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Title: Prince of Fuling / 涪陵王 · Action: enfeoffed
Explicit · nanqishu:008:s0072
Title: Marquis of Lingyang / 零陽侯 · Action: proposed-refused
Explicit · nanqishu:008:s0071
Status: commoner · Action: held
Explicit · nanqishu:008:s0071

Places and affiliations

Label: Southern Qi / 南齊 · Relation: member-of
Explicit · nanqishu:008:s0071
Organization: Southern Qi / 南齊 · Relation: affiliated-with
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0001

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quote: 江夏尚爾，豈復可罪餘人。
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0037

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: authority · Action: ordered-name-lists-burned
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0037
Kind: legal · Role: authority · Action: restored-titles · Other Person Id: Xiao Baoyin (蕭寶夤)
Explicit · nanqishu:050:s0061

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 14Volume 14: Jiang Yan; Ren Fang · 1 passage

東昏末，淹以秘書監兼衛尉，固辭不獲免，遂親職。 At the end of Donghun's reign, Yan, as Palace Library Director, was also made Commandant of the Guards. He firmly declined but could not be excused, and so took up the office himself.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 8Volume 8 Annals 8: Emperor He of Southern Qi · 2 passages

丙午，有司奏封庶人寶卷為零陽侯，詔不許。 On bingwu, the responsible offices memorialized to enfeoff the commoner Baojuan as Marquis of Lingyang; the edict did not permit it.

又奏為涪陵王，詔可。 They again memorialized to make him Prince of Fuling, and the edict approved.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 50Volume 50 Biographies 31: Emperor Wen's Two Princes, Emperor Ming's Seven Princes · 6 passages

明帝十一男：敬皇后生東昏侯寶卷，江夏王寶玄，鄱陽王寶寅，和帝； Emperor Ming had eleven sons: Empress Jing bore Bao Juan, Marquis of Donghun; Bao Xuan, Prince of Jiangxia; Bao Yin, Prince of Poyang; and the Emperor He;

東昏卽位，進征北大將軍，開府儀同三司，給扶。 When the Marquis of Donghun took the throne, Bao Yi was promoted to General Who Conquers the North, granted an office staff equal to the Three Excellencies, and given attendants to support him.

未拜，東昏卽位，進號鎮軍將軍。 Before he could take up the post, the Marquis of Donghun took the throne and Bao Xuan was promoted to General Who Guards the Army.

寶玄娶尚書令徐孝嗣女爲妃，孝嗣被誅離絕，少帝送少姬二人與之，寶玄恨望，密有異計。 Bao Xuan had taken as his consort the daughter of Director of the Imperial Secretariat Xu Xiaosi. After Xiaosi was executed they were separated, and the young emperor sent him two junior consorts in her place. Bao Xuan nursed resentment and secretly plotted rebellion.

東昏卽位，爲使持節、都督郢司二州軍事、征虜將軍、郢州刺史。 When the Marquis of Donghun took the throne, he was appointed Bearer of the Staff, Area Commander of E and Si, General Who Conquers the Barbarians, and Governor of E.

少帝以爲使持節、都督荊益寧雍梁南北秦七州軍事、荊州刺史，將軍如故。 The young emperor appointed him Bearer of the Staff, Area Commander of Jing, Yi, Ning, Yong, Liang, and Northern and Southern Qin, and Governor of Jing, while retaining his rank as general.

Book of Wei, Chapter 81Volume 76: Lu Tong, Zhang Lie · 2 passages

蕭寶卷將陳顯達治兵漢南，謀將入寇。 Chen Xianda, a general of Xiao Baojuan of Qi, drilled troops south of the Han and planned an invasion.

烈到郡二日，便為寶卷將崔慧景攻圍，七十餘日，烈撫厲將士，甚得軍人之和。 Two days after Lie reached the commandery, he was besieged by Cui Huijing, a general of Xiao Baojuan; for more than seventy days Lie rallied his troops and won their wholehearted loyalty.