Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Prince, Official, and Writer

Yuan Huiye 元暉業

Yuán Huīyè

Died AD 551

Passages
16
Chapters
4
Histories
3

Overview

The translated histories identify Yuan Huiye as an aristocrat, general, historian, and official. This record brings together 16 passages from 4 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yuan Huiye 元暉業 Yuán Huīyè
Title Duke of Meiyang County 美陽縣公
Personal Huiye 暉業 Huīyè
Given Huiye 暉業 Huīyè
Personal Huiye 暉業 Huiye
Title Prince of Jiyin 濟陰王 Jìyīn Wáng
Title Prince of Jiyin 濟陰王 Jiyin Wang
Title Prince of Jiyin 濟陰王
Courtesy name Shaoyuan 紹遠 Shàoyuǎn
Personal name Yuan Huiye 元暉業 Yuán Huīyè
Personal Yuan Yuye 元暉業 Yuan Yuye

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • General
  • Historian
  • Official
  • Poet
  • Royal Family Member
  • Statesman
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

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:s0045
  • Source Date: Text: 天保二年 · Western Year: AD 551
  • Source Date: Text: 建元元年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 516 · End: AD 529
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:028:s0112
  • Source Date: Text: 濟陰王暉業 · Western Interval: Start: AD 520 · End: AD 550
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:038:s0054
  • Source Date: Text: 辨宗室錄 · Western Interval: Start: AD 530 · End: AD 550
    Explicit event contextual date · weishu:110:s0131
  • Source Date: Text: 齊初 · Western Year: AD 550
    Explicit · beiqishu:028:s0093

Family

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  • Descendant of Emperor Jingmu of Wei (魏景穆皇帝)
    Kinship Term: great-great-grandson / 玄孫 · Generation Distance: 4 · Line: paternal
  • Child of Yuan Bi (元弼)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Subject Birth Order: 1
  • Sibling of Yuan Zhaoye (元昭業)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder · Object Role: younger-brother · Subject Role: elder-brother

Career and standing

  • Label: General Who Conquers the East / 征東將軍 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529
    Explicit · liangshu:032:s0045
  • Label: grand commandant / 太尉 · Action: held
    Explicit · beiqishu:028:s0087
  • Label: minister of works / 司空 · Action: held
    Explicit · beiqishu:028:s0087
  • Label: recorder of masters of writing / 錄尚書事 · Action: held
    Explicit · beiqishu:028:s0087
  • Label: secretariat supervisor / 中書監 · Action: held
    Explicit · beiqishu:028:s0087
  • Title: Duke of Meiyang county / 美陽縣公 · Action: reduced-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 齊初 · Western Year: AD 550
    Explicit · beiqishu:028:s0093
  • Title: Prince of Jiyin / 濟陰王 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529
    Explicit · liangshu:032:s0045

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: calm at execution while Xiaoyou panicked · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · beiqishu:028:s0099
  • Assessment: mean in youth; reformed; studied Masters and histories; ardent resolve · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment

Source notes

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 28Volume 28 Biographies 20: Yuan Tan (Eastern Wei); Yuan Bin; Yuan Xiaoyou; Yuan Huiye; Yuan Bi; Yuan Shao (Eastern Wei) · 10 passages
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 38Volume 38 Biographies 30: Xin Shu; Yuan Wenyao; Zhao Yanshen · 3 passages
Book of Liang, Chapter 32Volume 32: Chen Qingzhi; Lan Qin · 2 passages
Book of Wei, Chapter 110Volume 104: Author's Preface · 1 passage