Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Prince of Shao-ling

Prince You of Shao-ling 友

You

c. AD 470 - AD 479

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Overview

Prince You of Shao-ling was a prince of Shao-ling.

IdentityHistorical · Male
Found inBook of Song

Other names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Courtesy name Zhongxian 仲賢 Zhongxian
Posthumous name Prince Shao-ling 邵陵殤王

Life and dates

Death

Age

Attested activity

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Career and standing

  • bearer of the credentials of authority 使持節
    AD 474 後廢帝元徽二年 · Appointed
    Directly stated · Book of Song 90, passage 21
  • Director of military affairs of Xiyang, Xincai, and Jinxi in Jiang and Yu provinces 督江州豫州之西陽新蔡晉熙三郡諸軍事
    AD 474 後廢帝元徽二年 · Appointed
    Directly stated · Book of Song 90, passage 21
  • General of the South Center 南中郎將
    AD 474 後廢帝元徽二年 · Appointed
    Directly stated · Book of Song 90, passage 21
  • Governor of Jiang Province 江州刺史
    AD 474 後廢帝元徽二年 · Appointed
    Directly stated · Book of Song 90, passage 21
  • Administrator of Liyang 歷陽太守
    AD 478 昇明二年 · Appointed
    Directly stated · Book of Song 90, passage 24
  • General for Pacifying the South 安南將軍
    AD 478 昇明二年 · Appointed
    Directly stated · Book of Song 90, passage 24
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Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment To end merely as a Zhou-style fief-holder was fortune enough under sparse imperial branches. · Mode historian-judgment
    Directly stated · Book of Song 90, passage 19
  • In princely and prefectural documents and among clerks, the character you in you-wu was not tabooed despite matching his name.
    Name taboo
    Directly stated · Book of Song 90, passage 22

References in the histories

Book of Song, Chapter 90Volume 90 Biographies 50: Ming Siwang · 4 passages
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後廢帝元徽二年，太尉、江州刺史桂陽王休範反誅，皇室寡弱，友年五歲，出為使持節、督江州豫州之西陽新蔡晉熙三郡諸軍事、南中郎將、江州刺史，封邵陵王，食邑二千戶。 In 474, after Prince Xiufan of Guiyang rebelled and was executed while serving as Grand Commandant and governor of Jiang Province, the royal house was enfeebled. At five years old, You was sent out as Prince of Shao-ling and governor of Jiang Province, bearing the credentials of authority and command over the three Jiang–Yu commanderies of Xiyang, Xincai, and Jinxi, with a fief of two thousand households.