Zhu Youzhen
Later Liang · Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms · 2nd ruler
後梁末帝 Hòu Liáng Mòdì朱友貞 Zhū Yǒuzhēn
Wade–Giles: Hou Liang Mo-ti · Chu Yu-chen
Reigned 913–923 (10 years)
Reigned 10 years (913–923). Died by suicide at 36 (East Asian reckoning). 2nd ruler of Later Liang.
Facts
- Reign
- 27 March 913 – 18 November 923 (2nd ruler of Later Liang)
- Length of reign
- 10 years
- Born
- 20 October 888
- Died
- 18 November 923
- Age at accession
- Unknown
- Age at death
- 36
- Cause of death
- Suicide (incl. forced)Took their own life, including when driven to it by deposition or defeat, or when ordered to do so
- 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
- Predecessor
- Zhu Yougui
- Era names
- 貞明 Zhēnmíng (proclaimed 915)
- 龍德 Lóngdé (proclaimed 921)
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
- 2
- General amnesties
- 0
- Empresses installed
- 0
- Crown princes deposed
- 0
- Personal campaigns
- 0
- Rebellions suppressed
- 6
- Rebellions faced
- 8
- Capital relocations
- 0
Emperors of Later Liang
- 1stZhu Wen後梁太祖 Hòu Liáng Tàizǔ朱全忠 Zhū Quánzhōng907–912 · 5 years · Assassinated907–9125 yearsAssassinated
- Zhu Yougui朱友珪 Zhū Yǒuguī912–913 · 249 days · Suicide (incl. forced)912–913249 daysSuicide (incl. forced)
- 2ndZhu Youzhen後梁末帝 Hòu Liáng Mòdì朱友貞 Zhū Yǒuzhēn913–923 · 10 years · Suicide (incl. forced), age 36913–92310 yearsSuicide (incl. forced), age 36