Zhu Wen

Later Liang · Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms · 1st ruler

後梁太祖 Hòu Liáng Tàizǔ朱全忠 Zhū Quánzhōng

Wade–Giles: Hou Liang T'ai-tsu · Chu Ch'üan-chung

Reigned 907–912 (5 years)

Reigned 5 years (907–912). Assassinated; age at death unknown. 1st ruler of Later Liang.

Facts

Reign: 1 June 907 – 18 July 912 (1st ruler of Later Liang)
Length of reign: 5 years
Born: 5 December 852
Died: 18 July 912
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: Abdication from another dynastyReceived the throne from an emperor of another family or regime in a change of dynasty led by the new emperor (e.g. Cao Pi, Yang Jian, Zhao Kuangyin)
Predecessor: Emperor Ai of Tang
Successor: Zhu Yougui
Era names: 開平 Kāipíng (proclaimed 907)
乾化 Qiánhuà (proclaimed 911)

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: 2
Empresses installed: 0
Crown princes deposed: 0
Personal campaigns: 3
Rebellions suppressed: 4
Rebellions faced: 5
Capital relocations: 1

Emperors of Later Liang

All 3 emperors of Later Liang