Sui and Tang · Heir Apparent

Yuande Heir Apparent 元德太子

Yuande Taizi

Attested AD 605 - AD 618

Passages
4
Chapters
4
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Yuande Heir Apparent as an aristocrat, royal family member, and ruler. This record brings together 4 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yuande Heir Apparent 元德太子 Yuande Taizi
Posthumous Yuande 元德
Posthumous name Yuande 元德
Title Yuande Crown Prince 元德太子
Title Yuande Heir Apparent 元德太子
Title Yuande Heir Apparent 元德太子 Yuándé Tàizǐ

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • Royal Family Member
  • Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 元德太子薨 · Western Interval: Start: AD 605 · End: AD 606
    Explicit event contextual date · suishu:077:s0142
  • Source Date: Text: 史臣曰 · Western Interval: Start: AD 605 · End: AD 618
    Explicit event contextual date · suishu:059:s0260
  • Source Date: Text: 大業三年 · Western Year: AD 607
    Explicit event contextual date · suishu:005:s0001, suishu:005:s0004
  • Source Date: Text: 大業初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 605 · End: AD 608
    Explicit event contextual date · suishu:043:s0185, suishu:043:s0186

Family

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  • Spouse of Consort Wei (韋妃)
    Kinship Term: consort / 妃 · Union Category: concubinage · Subject Role: consort · Object Role: husband
  • Child of Yang Guang (楊廣)
    Kinship Term: heir apparent / 太子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Emperor Gong (Yang You) (恭皇帝)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Child of Emperor Yang (煬帝)
    Kinship Term: heir apparent / 太子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: heir apparent / 太子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Child of Sui Yangdi (隋煬帝)
    Kinship Term: imperial grandfather / 皇祖 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Sibling of Gao (杲)
    Shared Parentage: paternal-half
    Shared Parentage: paternal-half · Subject Relative Age: uncertain
  • Sibling of Prince Zheng of Qi (齊王)
    Shared Parentage: paternal-half
    Shared Parentage: paternal-half · Subject Relative Age: uncertain

Career and standing

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: refined and grave by nature, with the measure of a ruler; years cut short—mournful · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · suishu:059:s0260

References in the histories

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Book of Sui, Chapter 5Volume 5 Annals 5: Emperor Gong · 1 passage
Book of Sui, Chapter 43Volume 43 Biographies 8: He Jian Wanghong, Yang Chugang, Yang Zichong, Guang De, Wang Xiong · 1 passage
Book of Sui, Chapter 59Volume 59 Biographies 24: Three Sons of Emperor Yang · 1 passage
Book of Sui, Chapter 77Volume 77 Biographies 42: Recluses · 1 passage