Zhu Yougui
Later Liang · Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
朱友珪 Zhū Yǒuguī
Wade–Giles: Chu Yu-kuei
Reigned 912–913 (249 days)
Reigned 249 days (912–913). Died by suicide; age at death unknown.
Facts
- Reign
- 21 July 912 – 27 March 913
- Length of reign
- 249 days
- Born
- Unknown
- Died
- Unknown
- Age at accession
- Unknown
- Age at death
- Unknown
- 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
- UsurpationSeized the throne from the previous emperor (removing the predecessor and taking the throne were one act)
- Predecessor
- Zhu Wen
- Successor
- Zhu Youzhen
- Era names
- 鳳曆 Fènglì (proclaimed 913)
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
- 2
- Rebellions faced
- 4
- Capital relocations
- 1
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