Murong Chao
Southern Yan · Sixteen Kingdoms · 2nd ruler
慕容超 Mùróng Chāo
Wade–Giles: Mu-jung Ch'ao
Reigned 405–410 (5 years)
Reigned 5 years (405–410). Executed at 26 (East Asian reckoning). 2nd ruler of Southern Yan.
Facts
- Reign
- 405 – 410 (2nd ruler of Southern Yan)
- Length of reign
- 5 years
- Born
- Unknown
- Died
- 410
- Age at accession
- Unknown
- Age at death
- 26
- Cause of death
- ExecutedPut to death by a hostile power, a successor regime or a conqueror, as a public act
- Path to the throne
- Designated heirSucceeded the previous ruler of the same regime, who had chosen the heir (by testament, naming a crown prince, etc.)
- Predecessor
- Murong De
- Era names
- 太上 Tàishàng (proclaimed 405)
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
- 2
- Empresses installed
- 1
- Crown princes deposed
- 0
- Personal campaigns
- 1
- Rebellions suppressed
- 1
- Rebellions faced
- 1
- Capital relocations
- 0