Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Royal Family Member

Xiao Daqi 大器

AD 523 - AD 551

Passages
18
Chapters
5
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Xiao Daqi as an aristocrat, general, official, and royal family member. This record brings together 18 passages from 5 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Xiao Daqi 大器 Xiao Daqi
Posthumous name Ai
Title Crown Prince 皇太子 huang taizi
Title Crown Prince Ai 哀太子 Āi Tàizǐ
Given Daqi 大器 Daqi
Personal name Daqi 大器 Dàqì
Given name Daqi 大器 Daqi
Given name Daqi 大器 Dàqì
Title Lamented Crown Prince 哀太子
Posthumous name Lamented Crown Prince 哀太子
Title Lamented Crown Prince Daqi 哀太子大器
Title Prince of Xuancheng 宣城郡王 Xuancheng Jun Wang
Title Prince of Xuancheng 宣城王 Xuancheng wang
Title Prince of Xuancheng 宣城郡王
Courtesy name Renzong 仁宗 Renzong
Surname Xiao Xiao
Personal name Xiao Daqi 蕭大器 Xiao Daqi

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • General
  • Official
  • Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Birth

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通四年五月丁酉 · Western Year: AD 523
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0217

Death

Age

  • Age: 28 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大寶二年八月 · Western Year: AD 551
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0228

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 中大通四年 · Western Year: AD 532
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0218
  • Source Date: Text: 大同 · Western Year: AD 535
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:044:s0003
  • Source Date: Text: 大同四年 · Western Year: AD 538
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0220
  • Source Date: Text: 大寶二年八月 · Western Year: AD 551
  • Source Date: Text: 大寶二年八月戊午 · Western Year: AD 551
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:004:s0116
  • Source Date: Text: 天監十一年後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 512 · End: AD 549
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:007:s0233
  • Source Date: Text: 太清三年六月丁亥 · Western Year: AD 549
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:004:s0043
  • Source Date: Text: 太清三年六月丁亥 · Western Year: AD 549
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0223
  • Source Date: Text: 太清二年十月 · Western Year: AD 548
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0221
  • Source Date: Text: 承聖元年四月 · Western Year: AD 552
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0236
  • Source Date: Text: 普通四年五月丁酉 · Western Year: AD 523
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0217
  • Source Date: Text: · Western Interval: Start: AD 502 · End: AD 557
    Explicit · chenshu:017:s0192

Family

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  • Sibling of Xiao Dalian (蕭大連)
    Kinship Term: brother / 兄弟 · Parentage: biological · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: uncertain
  • Child of Emperor Xuan (高宗)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Subject Birth Order: 1
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Line: paternal
  • Child of Taizong (太宗)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
  • Child of Principal Consort of Taizong
    Kinship Term: mother (principal consort) / 嫡母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Child of Empress Wang Lingbin (王靈賓)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological
  • Child of Heir Apparent Taizong (太宗)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Child of Empress Wang (王皇后)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother

Career and standing

  • Label: Attendant-in-Ordinary / 侍中 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中大通四年 · Western Year: AD 532
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:008:s0218, liangshu:008:s0219
  • Label: General of the Central Guard / 中衛將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中大通四年 · Western Year: AD 532
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:008:s0219
  • Label: Bearer of the Staff; commander of Yang and Xu; Central Army grand general; Governor of Yangzhou / 使持節都督揚徐二州諸軍事中軍大將軍揚州刺史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同四年 · Western Year: AD 538
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0220
  • Label: Crown Prince / 皇太子 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太清三年六月丁亥 · Western Year: AD 549
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0223
  • Label: Grand Commander within the Terrace / 臺內大都督 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太清二年十月 · Western Year: AD 548
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0221
  • Title: Prince of Xuancheng commandery / 宣城郡王 · Action: enfeoffed · Fief Households: 2000 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中大通四年 · Western Year: AD 532
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0218
  • Label: Lamented Crown Prince / 哀太子 · Action: posthumously-titled · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 承聖元年四月 · Western Year: AD 552
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0236
  • Title: Prince of Xuancheng commandery / 宣城郡王 · Action: enfeoffed
    Explicit · chenshu:017:s0192
  • Title: Crown Prince / 皇太子 · Action: established · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太清三年六月丁亥 · Western Year: AD 549
    Explicit · liangshu:004:s0043
  • Title: Crown Prince Ai / 哀太子 · Action: held
    Explicit · liangshu:007:s0233

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: captivity · Role: captive · Other Person Id: Hou Jing (侯景) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 侯景西上至敗歸 · Western Interval: Start: AD 548 · End: AD 551
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0230

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: mild, harmonious, dignified; unbending under rebels · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liangshu:008:s0229

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 17Volume 17: Wang Chong; Wang Tong; Yuan Jing · 1 passage
Book of Liang, Chapter 4Volume 4: Emperor Jianwen · 2 passages
Book of Liang, Chapter 7Volume 7: Empresses · 1 passage
Book of Liang, Chapter 8Volume 8: Crown Prince Zhaoming; Crown Prince Ai; Crown Prince Minhuai · 13 passages
Book of Liang, Chapter 44Volume 44: Eleven Princes of Taizong; Two Princes of Shizu · 1 passage