| King Xiang of Zhou 周襄王 | |||||
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| King of China | |||||
| Reign | 651–619 BC[1] | ||||
| Predecessor | King Hui of Zhou | ||||
| Successor | King Qing of Zhou | ||||
| Died | 619 BC | ||||
| Spouse | Queen Di | ||||
| Issue | King Qing of Zhou | ||||
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| House | Zhou dynasty | ||||
| Father | King Hui of Zhou | ||||
| Mother | Queen Hui of Zhou | ||||
| Ji Zheng | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 姬鄭 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 姬郑 | ||||||||
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| Posthumous name | |||||||||
| Chinese | 周襄王 | ||||||||
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King Xiang of Zhou (died 619 BC), personal name Ji Zheng (Chinese: 姬郑), was the eighteenth king of the Chinese Zhou dynasty and the sixth of the Eastern Zhou.[2] He was a successor of his father King Hui of Zhou.[1]
He married Lady of the Dí, but later dismissed her.[3]
In 635 he was driven from the capital[4] by his brother Dai and was restored by Duke Wen of Jin.[5][6]
After his death, his son King Qing of Zhou succeeded him.[7]
Family
Spouse:
- Zhai Hou, of the Kui clan of Di (翟後 隗姓), deposed
Sons:
- Prince Renchen (王子壬臣; d. 613 BC), ruled as King Qing of Zhou from 618 to 613 BC
- Youngest son, the father of Prince Man (王孫滿), who rebuffed King Zhuang of Chu regarding the weight of the Nine Tripod Cauldrons
Ancestry
| King Huan of Zhou (d. 697 BC) | |||||||||||||||||||
| King Zhuang of Zhou (d. 682 BC) | |||||||||||||||||||
| King Xi of Zhou (d. 677 BC) | |||||||||||||||||||
| King Hui of Zhou (d. 652 BC) | |||||||||||||||||||
| King Xiang of Zhou (d. 619 BC) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Chen Gui of Chen | |||||||||||||||||||
See also
References
- 1 2 Michael Loewe and Edward Shaughnessy, ed. (1999), The Cambridge History of Ancient China, Cambridge University Press
- ↑ Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian
- ↑ Family tree of Chinese kings
- ↑ Eastern Zhou Dynasty Archived 2014-11-06 at the Wayback Machine. "Just at that moment, King Xiang of Zhou was driven to exile by Prince Dai who colluded with the Di tribes. So he, in alliance with other dukes, defeated Prince Dai and brought King Xiang back to the capital Luoyi."
- ↑ Wars with the Xiongnu. Authors: Guang Sima and Joseph P. Yap. See this page for more details.
- ↑ Mirroring the past: the writing and use of history in imperial China by Qingjia Edward Wang. University of Hawaii Press.
- ↑ Trình Doãn Thắng, Ngô Trâu Cương, Thái Thành (1998), Cố sự Quỳnh Lâm, NXB Thanh Hoá
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