Yuanyan (元儼) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yuanyan as a royal family member. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yuanyan	元儼	Yuanyan
Title	Prince of Guangling Commandery	廣陵郡王
Personal name	Yuanyan	元儼	Yuanyan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · songshi:118:s0020

Roles

Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 祥符元年 · Western Year: AD 1008
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:118:s0020, songshi:118:s0021

Career and standing

Title: Prince of Guangling Commandery / 廣陵郡王 · Action: held
Explicit · songshi:118:s0020

Places and affiliations

Label: Song / 宋 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · songshi:118:s0020

Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: participant · Action: seated-west-and-allowed-in-prince-rank · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 祥符元年 · Western Year: AD 1008
Explicit · songshi:118:s0020, songshi:118:s0021

References in the histories

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History of Song, Chapter 118Volume 118 Treatises 71: Rites 21 · 2 passages

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又祥符元年宴坐次圖，宰臣王旦與使相石保吉在東，寧王元偓、舒王元偁、廣陵郡王元儼、節度使惟吉在西，分班坐。 Again, in the seating chart for the banquet of the first year of Xiangfu, Chief Counselor Wang Dan and Commissioner Shi Baoji sat on the east; the Prince of Ning, Yuanwei, the Prince of Shu, Yuancheng, the Prince of Guangling Commandery, Yuanyan, and Military Commissioner Weiji sat on the west, each in separate ranks.

其元儼、惟吉是郡王與節度使，許綴親王班，竊慮當時出自特旨。 Yuanyan and Weiji were a commandery prince and a military commissioner who were allowed to join the imperial-prince rank—we suspect that at the time this came from a special directive.