| King Yuan of Zhou 周元王 | |||||
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| King of China | |||||
| Reign | 476–469 BC | ||||
| Predecessor | King Jìng of Zhou | ||||
| Successor | King Zhending of Zhou | ||||
| Died | 469 BC | ||||
| Issue | King Zhending of Zhou | ||||
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| House | Zhou dynasty | ||||
| Father | King Jìng of Zhou[1] | ||||
| King Yuan of Zhou | |||||||||
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| Posthumous name | |||||||||
| Chinese | 周元王 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | The Primal King of Zhou | ||||||||
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King Yuan of Zhou (Chinese: 周元王; pinyin: Zhōu Yuán Wáng,[2]) personal name Ji Ren, was the twenty-seventh king of the Chinese Zhou dynasty and the fifteenth of Eastern Zhou.[3] He ruled from 476 BC to 469 BC. He was succeeded by his son, Prince Jie (王子介), who ruled as King Zhending of Zhou from 468 BC to 441 BC.
Ancestry[edit]
| King Ling of Zhou (d. 545 BC) | |||||||||||||||
| King Jing of Zhou (d. 520 BC) | |||||||||||||||
| King Jing of Zhou (d. 477 BC) | |||||||||||||||
| King Yuan of Zhou (d. 469 BC) | |||||||||||||||
See also[edit]
Sources[edit]
- ^ A Journey Into China's Antiquity: Palaeolithic Age, Low Neolithic Age, Upper Neolithic Age, Xia Dynasty, Shang Dynasty, Western Zhou Dynasty, Spring and Autumn Period
- ^ Xuetong Yan: Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power. The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. See this page.
- ^ Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian