Xiao Fangzhi 蕭方智

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · beiqishu:033:s0017
• Sex: male
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0180, zhoushu:004:s0193

Roles

• Royal Family Member
• Ruler

Family

• Child of Consort Xia (夏貴妃)
  Kinship Term: birth mother / 所生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
• Spouse of Empress Wang (王皇后)
  Kinship Term: consort/empress / 妃/皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: active
• Child of Emperor Yuan (世祖)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

• Label: Grand Steward acting with imperial authority / 太宰、承製 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 承聖三年十一月 · Western Year: AD 554
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0184
• Label: General Who Pacifies the South / 平南將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 承聖二年 · Western Year: AD 553
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0183
• Label: Inspector of Jiangzhou / 江州刺史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 承聖二年 · Western Year: AD 553
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0183
• Title: Marquis of Xingliang / 興梁侯 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太清三年 · Western Year: AD 549
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0181
• Title: Prince of Jin'an / 晉安王 · Action: enfeoffed · Households: 2000 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 承聖元年 · Western Year: AD 552
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0182
• Title: King of Jiangyin / 江陰王 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 陳受禪後 · Western Year: AD 557
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0179
• Status: crown-prince · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 承聖四年 · Western Year: AD 555
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0006
• Action: ascended · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 紹泰元年前丙午 · Western Year: AD 555
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0008
• Action: abdicated · Other Person Id: Chen Baxian (陳霸先) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太平二年 · Western Year: AD 557
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0137
• Date Context: Source Date: Text: 是月 · Western Year: AD 557 · Authority Person Id: Chen Baxian (陳霸先)
  Explicit · zhoushu:004:s0193

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Liang / 梁 · Relation: ruled
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0008, liangshu:006:s0179
• Place: Xunyang / 尋陽 · Relation: arrived-from · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 承聖四年二月癸丑 · Western Year: AD 555
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0185

Works and attributed material

• Kind: edict · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太平二年 · Western Year: AD 557
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0120, liangshu:006:s0121, liangshu:006:s0122, liangshu:006:s0123, liangshu:006:s0124, liangshu:006:s0125, liangshu:006:s0126, liangshu:006:s0127, liangshu:006:s0128, liangshu:006:s0129, liangshu:006:s0130, liangshu:006:s0131, liangshu:006:s0132, liangshu:006:s0133, liangshu:006:s0134, liangshu:006:s0135, liangshu:006:s0136, liangshu:006:s0137
• Kind: edict · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太平二年春正月壬寅 · Western Year: AD 557
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0073, liangshu:006:s0074, liangshu:006:s0075, liangshu:006:s0076, liangshu:006:s0077, liangshu:006:s0078, liangshu:006:s0079
• Kind: edict · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 紹泰元年冬十月己巳 · Western Year: AD 555
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0009, liangshu:006:s0010, liangshu:006:s0011, liangshu:006:s0012, liangshu:006:s0013, liangshu:006:s0014, liangshu:006:s0015, liangshu:006:s0016

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: high abdication like laying down a burden when Heaven's mandate had departed · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0138

Source notes

• Statement: Ninth son of Emperor Yuan (世祖第九子) · Field: birth-order
  Explicit · liangshu:006:s0180