Murong Wei
Former Yan · Sixteen Kingdoms · 3rd ruler
前燕幽帝 Qián Yàn Yōudì慕容暐 Mùróng Wěi
Wade–Giles: Ch'ien Yen Yu-ti · Mu-jung Wei
Reigned 360–370 (10 years)
Reigned 10 years (360–370). Executed at 35 (East Asian reckoning). 3rd ruler of Former Yan.
Facts
- Reign
- 27 February 360 – 11 December 370 (3rd ruler of Former Yan)
- Length of reign
- 10 years
- Born
- Unknown
- Died
- Unknown
- Age at accession
- Unknown
- Age at death
- 35
- 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 Jun
- Era names
- 建熙 Jiànxī (proclaimed 360)
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
- 0
- Crown princes deposed
- 0
- Personal campaigns
- 0
- Rebellions suppressed
- 1
- Rebellions faced
- 1
- Capital relocations
- 0