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Yuan Ye

Northern Wei · Northern and Southern Dynasties

元曄 Yuán Yè

Wade–Giles: Yüan Yeh

Reigned 530–531 (117 days)

Reigned 117 days (530–531). Assassinated; age at death unknown.

Facts

Reign
5 December 530 – 1 April 531
Length of reign
117 days
Born
Unknown
Died
26 December 532
Age at accession
Unknown
Age at death
Unknown
Cause of death
AssassinatedKilled by officials, relatives, eunuchs or others within the same regime (including poisoning)
Path to the throne
Installed by othersSucceeded the previous ruler of the same regime, but the choice was made by officials, the army, eunuchs, consort kin, an empress dowager or the imperial clan
Era names
  • 建明 Jiànmíng (proclaimed 530)

Ages are given in East Asian reckoning (sui): a person is one year old at birth and gains a year at each New Year, so the figure is one or two years higher than the Western age.

During the reign

Number of times each event is recorded in the official histories. How each item is counted

Era name changes
1
General amnesties
1
Empresses installed
0
Crown princes deposed
0
Personal campaigns
0
Rebellions suppressed
0
Rebellions faced
0
Capital relocations
0

Emperors of Northern Wei

All 18 emperors of Northern Wei