Murong Zhong
Western Yan · Sixteen Kingdoms · 6th ruler
慕容忠 Mùróng Zhōng
Wade–Giles: Mu-jung Chung
Reigned 386 (213 days)
Reigned 213 days (386). Assassinated; age at death unknown. 6th ruler of Western Yan.
Facts
- Reign
- 386 – 386 (6th ruler of Western Yan)
- Length of reign
- 213 days
- Born
- Unknown
- Died
- 386
- 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
- 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
- Murong Yao
- Successor
- Murong Yong
- Era names
- 建武 Jiànwǔ (proclaimed 386)
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
- 0
- Empresses installed
- 0
- Crown princes deposed
- 0
- Personal campaigns
- 0
- Rebellions suppressed
- 0
- Rebellions faced
- 1
- Capital relocations
- 0
Emperors of Western Yan
- 2ndMurong Chong西燕威帝 Xī Yàn Wēidì慕容沖 Mùróng Chōng385–386 · 1 year · Assassinated, age 28385–3861 yearAssassinated, age 28
- 5thMurong Yao慕容瑤 Mùróng Yáo386 · 30 days · Assassinated38630 daysAssassinated
- 6thMurong Zhong慕容忠 Mùróng Zhōng386 · 213 days · Assassinated386213 daysAssassinated
- 7thMurong Yong慕容永 Mùróng Yǒng386–394 · 9 years · Executed386–3949 yearsExecuted