Yuan Yu (元彧) | 24 Histories

Overview

Yuan Yu was a Royal Family Member.

PeriodThree Kingdoms and Six Dynasties

IdentityHistorical · Male

Roles

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Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 520 to AD 527 普通中
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 32, passage 10
AD 529 癸酉
Dated from the passage context · zizhitongjian:153:s0165b
AD 529 中大通元年二月甲午
Dated from the passage context · zizhitongjian:153:s0008b
AD 529 中大通元年夏四月癸未
Dated from the passage context · zizhitongjian:153:s0019a
AD 529 五月丙子
Dated from the passage context · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 153, passage 65; zizhitongjian:153:s0065a
AD 524 to AD 526 朝廷重遣河間王琛及臨淮王彧、尚書李憲等三
Directly stated · Book of Wei 30, passage 113

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AD 528 to AD 530 臨淮王彧
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 47, passage 21
AD 534 臨淮王無子時
Strongly inferred · Book of Northern Qi 28, passage 32

Family

Kin of Yuan Fu (元孚)
brother's son 兄子 · paternal line
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 47, passage 26
Sibling of Yuan Xiaoyou (元孝友)
elder brother 兄 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 28, passage 32

Kinship Role sons · Count 0 · Negated true
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 28, passage 32

Key source chapters

Career and standing

acting Director of the Imperial Secretariat 兼錄尚書
AD 529 中大通元年二月甲午 · Held
Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0008b
Grand Marshal 大司馬
AD 529 中大通元年二月甲午 · Held
Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0008b
Prince of Linhuai 臨淮王
AD 520 to AD 527 普通中 · Held
Directly stated · Book of Liang 32, passage 10
Prince of Linhuai 臨淮王
Held
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 153, passage 65; zizhitongjian:153:s0008b

Places and affiliations

AD 529 癸酉
Polity Northern Wei 北魏 · Relation Submitted to
Dated from the passage context · zizhitongjian:153:s0165b
Polity Wei 魏 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 153, passage 65; zizhitongjian:153:s0008b

Works and attributed material

AD 529 中大通元年二月甲午
Memorial · Author · Addressed to Wei Emperor (魏主) · Direct quotation · Mode quotation Speaker Yuan Yu (元彧)
Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0008b; zizhitongjian:153:s0008c; zizhitongjian:153:s0008d; zizhitongjian:153:s0008e
AD 529 中大通元年夏四月癸未
Memorial · Author · Addressed to Wei Emperor (魏主) · Direct quotation · Mode quotation Speaker Yuan Yu (元彧)
Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0019a
Memorial · Author
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 47, passage 40

Events and relationships

Helped usher Yuan Hao into Luoyang and prepare his accession
AD 527 to AD 529 大通初 · Military · Combatant · With Yuan Hao (元顥)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 32, passage 65
Led twenty thousand troops with Yuan Yanming against Prince Zong
AD 520 to AD 527 普通中 · Military · Commander · With Yuan Yanming (元延明)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 32, passage 10
Protested posthumous emperor title for Prince Shao
AD 529 中大通元年夏四月癸未 · Political · Remonstrant · With Wei Emperor (魏主) · Outcome Refused
Dated from the passage context · zizhitongjian:153:s0019a; zizhitongjian:153:s0019b
Protested ranking Suzu as emperor; later asked to drop 帝 for 皇
AD 529 中大通元年二月甲午 · Political · Remonstrant · With Wei Emperor (魏主) · Outcome Refused
Dated from the passage context · zizhitongjian:153:s0008b; zizhitongjian:153:s0008f
Returned allegiance
AD 529 癸酉 · Political · Submitter · With Wei Emperor (魏主)
Dated from the passage context · zizhitongjian:153:s0165b
Sealed treasuries and welcomed
Ritual · Official · With Yuan Hao (元顥)
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 153, passage 65

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Relation Political ally of · Person Yuan Hao (元顥) · Later State plotted against Liang
Directly stated · Book of Liang 32, passage 75
Relation Subject of · Person Wei Emperor (魏主)
Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0165b

Assessments and attributes

Assessment pairing both empresses would seat lord and minister together and sister-in-law with brother-in-law · With Emperor Wenmu (文穆皇帝) · Mode quotation Speaker Yuan Yu (元彧)
Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0008d; zizhitongjian:153:s0008e

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 28, passage 1; zizhitongjian:153:s0008b

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 28Volume 28 Biographies 20: Yuan Tan (Eastern Wei); Yuan Bin; Yuan Xiaoyou; Yuan Huiye; Yuan Bi; Yuan Shao (Eastern Wei) · 2 passages

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兄臨淮王彧無子，令孝友襲爵。 His elder brother Prince Linhuai Yu had no son; Xiaoyou was made to inherit the title.

文襄曰：「臨淮王奉旨舍罪。」 Gao Cheng said, "Prince Linhuai has received the decree and is pardoned of guilt."

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 47Volume 47 Biographies 39: Cruel Officials · 4 passages

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孝莊卽位，除左中兵郎中，為尚書令臨淮王彧譴責，遊道乃執版長揖曰：「下官謝王瞋，不謝王理。」 When Emperor Xiaozhuang took the throne, Youdao became Left Central Army Bureau gentleman; censured by Director Yuan Ye, Prince of Linhuai, Youdao held his board and bowed: "I thank your anger, my lord, not your reasoning."

尚書令臨淮王彧卽孚之兄子，遣省事謝遠三日之中八度逼迫，云宜依判許。 Director Yuan Ye, Prince of Linhuai, is Fu's nephew; within three days his clerk Xie Yuan pressed eight times for approval by precedent.

為臣此言，彧賜怒更甚。 For these words Ye's anger grew worse.

彧亦奏言：「臣忝冠百僚，遂使一郎攘袂高聲，肆言頓挫，乞解尚書令。」 Ye also memorialized: "I crown the hundred officials, yet one gentleman rolls up his sleeves and speaks loudly to blunt me; I beg relief from Director of the Masters of Writing."

Book of Liang, Chapter 32Volume 32: Chen Qingzhi; Lan Qin · 3 passages

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魏遣安豊王元延明、臨淮王元彧率衆二萬來拒，屯據陟□。 Wei sent Prince Yanming of Anfeng and Prince Yu of Linhuai with twenty thousand men to block them, encamping at a place whose name in the text is partly lost (Zhi□).