Xiao Yuanliang (元良)

Overview

The translated histories identify Xiao Yuanliang as a general, official, and royal family member. This record brings together 10 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xiao Yuanliang	元良	Xiao Yuanliang
Title	Crown Prince	太子	Tàizǐ
Title	Crown Prince Minhuai	愍懷太子
Posthumous	Crown Prince Minhuai	愍懷太子	Mǐnhuái Tàizǐ
Courtesy name	Degui	德規	Degui
Personal name	Fang Ju	方矩	Fāngjǔ
Given name	Fang Ju	方矩	Fāngjǔ
Given name	Fangju	方矩	Fangju
Posthumous name	Lamented and Cherished Crown Prince	愍懷太子
Title	Marquis of Nan'an	南安縣侯
Surname	Xiao	蕭	Xiao
Alternate name	Yuanliang	元良	Yuanliang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liangshu:008:s0237, liangshu:008:s0238, liangshu:008:s0250, liangshu:044:s0124
Value: male
Explicit · chenshu:017:s0031

Roles

General
Official
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Death

Place: Jingcheng / 荊城 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 西魏師陷荊城 · Western Year: AD 554
Explicit · liangshu:008:s0256

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 侯景之亂 · Western Interval: Start: AD 548 · End: AD 552
Explicit · chenshu:017:s0031
Source Date: Text: 大寶 · Western Year: AD 550
Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:044:s0124
Source Date: Text: 太子聰穎，頗有世祖風 · Western Interval: Start: AD 552 · End: AD 554
Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:008:s0237
Source Date: Text: 太清初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 547 · End: AD 548
Explicit · liangshu:008:s0252
Source Date: Text: 承聖元年 · Western Year: AD 552
Explicit · liangshu:008:s0254, liangshu:008:s0255
Source Date: Text: 承聖元年十一月丙子 · Western Year: AD 552
Explicit · liangshu:008:s0255
Source Date: Text: 敬帝承制，追諡愍懷太子 · Western Interval: Start: AD 555 · End: AD 557
Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:008:s0238
Source Date: Text: 西魏師陷荊城 · Western Year: AD 554
Explicit · liangshu:008:s0256

Family

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Child of Xiao Yi (蕭繹)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 4
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Child of Emperor Yuan of Liang (梁元帝)
Kinship Term: fourth son / 第四子 · Object Birth Order: 4
Child of Emperor Shizu (世祖)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

Label: Attendant-in-Ordinary and General of the Central Guard / 侍中中衛將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太清初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 547 · End: AD 548
Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:008:s0253
Label: Envoy Holding Credentials; commander of seven provinces; General Who Pacifies the South; inspector of Xiangzhou / 使持節督湘郢桂寧成合羅七州諸軍事鎮南將軍湘州刺史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太清初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 547 · End: AD 548
Explicit · liangshu:008:s0252
Label: Crown Prince / 皇太子 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 承聖元年十一月丙子 · Western Year: AD 552
Explicit · liangshu:008:s0255
Label: princely heir / 王太子 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liangshu:008:s0254
Title: Marquis of Nan'an county / 南安縣侯 · Action: enfeoffed
Explicit · liangshu:008:s0251
Title: Crown Prince Minhuai / 愍懷太子 · Action: posthumously-granted · Authority Person Id: Emperor Jing of Liang (敬帝)
Explicit · liangshu:008:s0238

Places and affiliations

Label: Liang / 梁 · Relation: subject-of
Strongly inferred · liangshu:008:s0237, liangshu:008:s0238
Polity: Liang / 梁 · Relation: belonged-to
Explicit · liangshu:044:s0001

Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: recipient · Action: posthumously-titled · Other Person Id: Emperor Jing of Liang (敬帝) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 敬帝承制 · Western Interval: Start: AD 555 · End: AD 557
Explicit · liangshu:008:s0238

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: clever and keen, yet fierce, violent, and suspicious; much in Shizu's manner · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liangshu:008:s0237