Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Royal Family Member

Yuan Hao 元顥

Attested AD 520 - AD 530

Passages
34
Chapters
10
Histories
4

Overview

The translated histories identify Yuan Hao as a general, rebel, royal family member, and ruler. This record brings together 34 passages from 10 chapters across 4 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yuan Hao 元顥 Yuan Hao
Title Beihai 北海 Beihai
Personal Hao Hao
Given name Hao
Title Prince of Beihai 北海王 Beihai Wang
Title Prince of Beihai 北海王
Personal name Prince Yuan Hao 北海王顥
Personal name Yuan Hao 元顥 Yuan Hao
Personal name Yuan Hao 元顥 Yuán Hào
Personal name Yuan Hao 元顥
Personal Yuan Hao 元顥 Yuán Hào
Surname Yuan
Given Hao

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • General
  • Rebel
  • Royal Family Member
  • Ruler
  • Warlord

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:032:s0040
  • Source Date: Text: 中大通元年 · Western Year: AD 529
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:046:s0159
  • Source Date: Text: 元顥入洛 · Western Year: AD 529
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:047:s0123
  • Source Date: Text: 元顥入洛 · Western Year: AD 529
    Explicit · weishu:024:s0115
  • Source Date: Text: 元顥內逼 · Western Year: AD 529
    Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0033
  • Source Date: Text: 元顥已據酇城 · Western Year: AD 529
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:026:s0026
  • Source Date: Text: 北海王顥率兵討之 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 530
    Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:018:s0083
  • Source Date: Text: 從尒朱榮平元顥 · Western Year: AD 529
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:035:s0086
  • Source Date: Text: 永安 · Western Year: AD 529
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:034:s0030
  • Source Date: Text: 破元顥 · Western Year: AD 529
    Explicit · zhoushu:017:s0031

Career and standing

  • Action: appointed-and-enfeoffed-Chen-Qingzhi · Person Id: Chen Qingzhi (陳慶之)
  • Title: Prince of Beihai / 北海王 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529
    Explicit · liangshu:032:s0040
  • Title: Prince of Beihai / 北海王 · Action: held
    Explicit · zhoushu:018:s0083
  • Title: Emperor of Wei / 魏帝 · Action: assumed-title · Place: Huan River / 渙水 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529
    Explicit · liangshu:032:s0042

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned against rebels
    Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:018:s0083, zhoushu:018:s0084
  • Kind: military · Action: entered Luoyang palace, changed the reign title, and proclaimed amnesty · Role: commander · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529
    Explicit · liangshu:032:s0065
  • Kind: military · Role: occupier · Action: entered Luoyang · Place: Luoyang / 洛 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 顥遂入洛 · Western Year: AD 529
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:026:s0033
  • Kind: military · Role: usurper · Action: entered · Place: Luoyang / 洛陽
    Explicit · weishu:024:s0115
  • Kind: military · Action: held Luoyang for sixty-five days before all captured cities rebelled · Role: defender · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529
    Explicit · liangshu:032:s0097
  • Kind: military · Action: was defeated by Erzhu Rong, fled to Linying, and was captured by marauders · Role: opponent · Other Person Id: Erzhu Rong (尒朱榮) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529
    Explicit · liangshu:032:s0100
  • Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Wang Sizheng (王思政)
  • Relation: became-suspicious-of · Person Id: Chen Qingzhi (陳慶之)
    Explicit · liangshu:032:s0084
  • Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Yuan Yanming (元延明)
    Explicit · weishu:024:s0115

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: after gaining power, devoted himself to wine and women and neglected government · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liangshu:032:s0074

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 26Volume 26 Biographies 18: Xue Chu; Jing Xianjun; Ping Jian · 4 passages
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 34Volume 34 Biographies 26: Yang Yin; Yan Zixian; Song Qindao; Zheng Yi · 1 passage
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 35Volume 35 Biographies 27: Pei Rangzhi; Li Guo; Zhang Yanzhi; Lu Ang; Wang Songnian; Liu Yi · 1 passage
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 47Volume 47 Biographies 39: Cruel Officials · 1 passage
Book of Liang, Chapter 32Volume 32: Chen Qingzhi; Lan Qin · 17 passages
Book of Liang, Chapter 46Volume 46: Hu Sengyou; Xu Wensheng; Du Ze; Du An; Du You'an; Du Kan; Yin Zichun · 1 passage
Book of Wei, Chapter 24Volume 20: Emperor Wencheng's Five Princes · 2 passages
Book of Wei, Chapter 110Volume 104: Author's Preface · 2 passages
Book of Zhou, Chapter 17Volume 17 Biographies 9: Liang Yu; Guo Ganhui; Yi Feng; Liu Liang; Wang De · 2 passages
Book of Zhou, Chapter 18Volume 18 Biographies 10: Wang Pi; Wang Sizheng · 3 passages