Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Prince and Official

Yuan Xiaoyou 元孝友

Yuán Xiàoyǒu

Died AD 551

Passages
10
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Yuan Xiaoyou as an administrator, aristocrat, official, and royal family member. This record brings together 10 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yuan Xiaoyou 元孝友 Yuán Xiàoyǒu
Title Duke of Linhuai County 臨淮縣公
Title Prince of Linhuai 臨淮王
Personal name Yuan Xiaoyou 元孝友 Yuán Xiàoyǒu

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Aristocrat
  • Official
  • Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

Family

  • Descendant of Emperor Taiwu of Wei (魏太武皇帝)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Sibling of Yuan Yu (元彧)
    Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger · Object Role: elder-brother · Subject Role: younger-brother

Career and standing

  • Label: grand master for splendid happiness / 光祿大夫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 齊天保初 · Western Year: AD 550
    Explicit · beiqishu:028:s0082
  • Label: inspector of Cangzhou / 滄州刺史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · beiqishu:028:s0033
  • Label: mayor (Yin) / 尹 · Action: held
    Explicit · beiqishu:028:s0081
  • Title: Prince of Linhuai / 臨淮王 · Action: inherited · Other Person Id: Yuan Yu (元彧)
    Explicit · beiqishu:028:s0032
  • Title: Duke of Linhuai county / 臨淮縣公 · Action: reduced-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 齊天保初 · Western Year: AD 550
    Explicit · beiqishu:028:s0082
  • Label: pardoned of guilt at banquet / 奉旨舍罪 · Action: pardoned

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: kept to law and won repute, but lacked backbone and courted the powerful · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · beiqishu:028:s0081
  • Assessment: mild governance; small favors; not upright but not abusive · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · beiqishu:028:s0033

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