Zhu Yougui
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| Reign | July 21, 912 – March 27, 913 | ||||||||
| Born | 888? | ||||||||
| Died | March 27, 913 | ||||||||
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| Dynasty | Later Liang | ||||||||
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| Fènglì (鳳曆): March 1, 913 – 913 |
Zhu Yougui (朱友珪) (888? – March 27, 913), nickname Yaoxi (遙喜), often known by his princely title Prince of Ying (郢王), was briefly an emperor of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Later Liang. He became emperor after assassinating his father, the founding emperor Emperor Taizu (Zhu Quanzhong). Several months later, facing a rebellion led by his brother Zhu Youzhen the Prince of Jun and cousin Yuan Xiangxian, he committed suicide.
Zhu Yougui was the third son of Zhu Quanzhong (with the two older sons being a biological half-brother, Zhu Youyu (朱友裕) and an adoptive brother, Zhu Youwen), who, at the time of his birth, was the Tang Dynasty military governor (Jiedushi) of Xuanwu Circuit (宣武, headquartered in modern Kaifeng, Henan). His mother was a military prostitute at Bo Prefecture (亳州, in modern Bozhou, Anhui), and her name is lost to history. During the Guangqi era (885-888) era of Emperor Xizong of Tang, Zhu Quanzhong was on a campaign when he visited Bo Prefecture, and had sexual relations with Zhu Yougui's mother there. After a month, Zhu Quanzhong prepared to leave, and the prostitute informed him that she was pregnant. At that time, Zhu Quanzhong's wife Lady Zhang was honored, favored, and feared by him, so he did not take the prostitute back to Xuanwu's capital Bian Prefecture (汴州) with him, keeping her at a mansion at Bo Prefecture instead. When she subsequently delivered a boy, she sent a messenger to inform him. He was pleased, and gave the child the nickname Yaoxi ("remote joy"). (As the extensive records in Zhu Quanzhong's biography in the History of the Five Dynasties only mentioned one campaign visit to Bo Prefecture, in late 887, the liaison probably occurred at that time, which would place Zhu Yougui's birth in 888; Zhu Quanzhong's fourth son Zhu Youzhen, born of Lady Zhang, was born on October 20, 888, which would be consistent.) Zhu Quanzhong later welcomed Zhu Yougui to Bian Prefecture, but it is not known whether his mother went there with him.
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