Ming · Official

Xu Youzhen 徐有貞

Attested AD 1457 - AD 1457

Passages
8
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Xu Youzhen as an aristocrat, official, and statesman. This record brings together 8 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

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Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Xu Youzhen 徐有貞 Xu Youzhen
Personal name Xu Youzhen 徐有貞 Xu Youzhen

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Career and standing

  • Label: Hanlin Academician / 翰林學士 · Action: appointed concurrently with his original office · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順元年春正月壬午 · Western Year: AD 1457
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0003
  • Label: Grand Secretariat, participant in confidential affairs / 入閣預機務 · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順元年春正月壬午 · Western Year: AD 1457
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0003
  • Label: Vice Censor-in-chief / 副都御史 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順元年春正月壬午 · Western Year: AD 1457
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0002
  • Title: Baron of Wugong / 武功伯 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順元年三月癸酉 · Western Year: AD 1457
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0026
  • Legal Action: imprisonment in the Brocade Guard prison / 下錦衣衛獄 · Action: suffered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順元年六月己亥 · Western Year: AD 1457
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0040
  • Legal Action: demotion to a post outside the capital / 謫外任 · Action: suffered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順元年六月庚子 · Western Year: AD 1457
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0042
  • Legal Action: imprisonment (second time) / 復下於獄 · Action: suffered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順元年秋七月乙丑 · Western Year: AD 1457
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0048
  • Legal Action: banishment to Jinchi / 放於金齒 · Action: suffered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順元年秋七月癸未 · Western Year: AD 1457
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0056

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

  • Kind: political · Event: Gate-Seizing restoration / 奪門迎復 · Role: leader · Action: led troops that brought the Emperor out of the Southern Palace · Other Person Id: Yingzong (英宗) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順元年春正月壬午 · Western Year: AD 1457
    Explicit · mingshi:012:s0002
  • Kind: coup · Role: participant · Action: seized gate to restore Yingzong
    Explicit · mingshi:169:s0221

References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 12Volume 12 Annals 12: Yingzong Later Records · 7 passages
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天順元年春正月壬午，昧爽，武清侯石亨，都督張輗、張軏，左都御史楊善，副 都御史徐有貞，太監曹吉祥以兵迎帝於南宮，御奉天門，朝百官。 In the first month of spring in Tianshun one, at first light on renwu, Shi Heng, Marquis of Wuqing, Zhang Ni and Zhang Yue, regional commanders, Yang Shan, left censor-in-chief, Xu Youzhen, vice censor-in-chief, and the eunuch Cao Jixiang led troops to bring the Emperor out of the Southern Palace; he took the throne at Fengtian Gate and received the whole bureaucracy in audience.
History of Ming, Chapter 169Volume 169 Biographies 57: Gao Gu, Hu Ying, Wang Zhi · 1 passage
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