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Line 1: {{more citations needed\|date=May 2015}} ~~{\| cellpadding=3px cellspacing=0px bgcolor=#f7f8ff style="float:right; border:2px solid; margin:5px;"~~ {{~~Chinese~~Family name hatnote\|[[Yuan (surname)\|Yuan]]\|lang=Chinese}}▼ ~~<!--~~ {{Infobox royalty ~~\|colspan=2 align=center style="border-top:1px solid"\|[[INSERT IMAGE HERE]]~~ \| name = Yuan, Zhao<br/>元釗▼ \|- \| ~~date~~image of ~~birth~~ = ~~526~~▼ ~~-->~~ \| succession = Emperor of [[Northern Wei]] ~~!align=center style="background:#ccf; border-bottom:2px solid" colspan=2\|'''(Bei) Wei Youzhu''' ((北)魏幼主)~~ \| reign = April 2<ref>''yimao'' day of the 2nd month of the 1st year of the ''Wutai'' era, per Emperor Xiaoming's biography in ''Book of Wei''</ref> – May 17, 528 \|- \| predecessor = [[Daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei\|Empress Regnant Wutai]]{{NoteTag\|name=daughter\|Empress Dowager Hu initially declared Emperor Xiaoming's "son" (actually a daughter) emperor, but almost immediately after admitted that she was actually female and declared Yuan Zhao emperor instead. Emperor Xiaoming's unnamed daughter was therefore arguably an "emperor" and his successor, but is not commonly regarded as one.}} ~~\|align=right style="border-top:1px solid"\|[[Chinese name\|Family name]]:\|\|style="border-top:1px solid"\|Yuan (元, yuán)~~ \| successor = [[Emperor Xiaozhuang of Northern Wei\|Emperor Xiaozhuang]] \|- \|~~align=right~~ ~~style~~full name =~~"border-top:1px~~ ~~solid"\|~~[[~~Chinese~~Family name\|]]: Yuán (元)<br>[[Given name]]:~~\|\|style="border-top:1px~~ ~~solid"\|Zhao~~Zhāo (釗~~, zhāo~~) \| temple name = \|- \| posthumous name = ~~\|align=right style="border-top:1px solid"\|[[Posthumous name]]:\|\|style="border-top:1px solid"\|None~~ \| era name = Wǔtài (武泰) \|- \| era dates = 528 \|}▼ \| birth_date = 526 ▲{{Chinese name\|[[Yuan (surname)\|Yuan]]}} \| death_date = May 17, 528 '''Yuan Zhao''' (元釗) (526 – May 17, 528<ref>[http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/kiwi1/luso.sh?lstype=2&dyna=%A5_%C3Q&king=%A7%B5%B2%F8%AB%D2&reign=%AB%D8%B8q&yy=1&ycanzi=&mm=4&dd=&dcanzi=%A9%B0%A4l 兩千年中西曆轉換<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>), also known in history as '''Youzhu''' (幼主, literally "the young lord"), was briefly an [[emperor]] of the [[Xianbei]] dynasty [[Northern Wei]]. \| ~~date~~father of ~~death~~ = ~~528~~▼ \| mother = \| house = [[Tuoba\|Yuan]] \| dynasty = [[Northern Wei]] ▲\|}} '''Yuan Zhao''' ({{zh\|t=元釗}}) (526<ref>''History of the Northern Dynasties'' indicated that Yuan Zhao was 2-3 years old (by East Asian reckoning) when he ascended the throne. (遂立临洮王子钊为主，年始二、三岁，天下愕然。) ''Bei Shi'', vol.13</ref> – May 17, 528<ref>According to Emperor Xiaoming's biography in ''Book of Wei'', Empress Dowager Hu and Yuan Zhao died on the ''gengzi'' day of the 4th month of the 1st year of the ''Wutai'' era of his reign. This corresponds to 17 May 528 on the Julian calendar. ([武泰元年夏四月]庚子，皇太后、幼主崩。) ''Wei Shu'' vol.09.</ref>), also known in historiography as '''Youzhu of Northern Wei''' (北魏幼主; literally "the young lord"), was briefly an [[Emperor of China\|emperor]] of the [[Xianbei]]-led Chinese [[Northern Wei]] dynasty. ==Background== Yuan Zhao was a son of Yuan Baohui (元寶暉) the Prince of Lintao, who was a grandson of [[Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei\|Emperor Xiaowen]] and therefore cousin to [[Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei\|Emperor Xiaoming]], the reigning emperor at the time of Yuan Zhao's birth in 526. In 528, Emperor Xiaoming was poisoned to death by his mother [[Empress Dowager Hu (Xiaoming)\|Empress Dowager Hu]] after trying to curb her power and trying to kill her lover Zheng Yan (鄭儼). Emperor Xiaoming was sonless, and while Empress Dowager Hu initially tried to pretend that [[Daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei\|Emperor Xiaoming's daughter]], by his [[concubine]] Consort Pan, was actually a son, she soon realized that she could not carry on the deception, and she named Yuan Zhao emperor—selecting him due to his young age so that she could control him. The general [[Erzhu Rong]], with whom Emperor Xiaoming had conspired against Empress Dowager Hu, refused to recognize Yuan Zhao as emperor, quickly descending on the capital [[Luoyang]] with his troops and declaring a son of Emperor Xiaowen's brother [[Yuan Xie]], [[Emperor Xiaozhuang of Northern Wei\|Yuan Ziyou]], emperor (as Emperor Xiaozhuang). Less than two months after Yuan Zhao was declared emperor, Erzhu had captured Luoyang and put Empress Dowager Hu and Yuan Zhao under arrest. After Empress Dowager Hu tried, unsuccessfully, to defend her actions before Erzhu, Erzhu had her and Yuan Zhao thrown into the [[Yellow River]] to drown.▼ Yuan Zhao was a son of Yuan Baohui (元寶暉) the Prince of Lintao, who was a grandson of [[Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei\|Emperor Xiaowen]] (via his son Yuan Yu (元愉)) and therefore cousin to [[Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei\|Emperor Xiaoming]], the reigning emperor at the time of Yuan Zhao's birth in 526. ==Reign== In 528, Emperor Xiaoming was poisoned to death by his mother [[Empress Dowager Hu (Northern Wei)\|Empress Dowager Hu]] after trying to curb her power and trying to kill her lover Zheng Yan (鄭儼). Emperor Xiaoming was sonless, and while Empress Dowager Hu initially tried to pretend that [[Daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei\|Emperor Xiaoming's daughter]], by his [[concubine]] Consort Pan, was actually a son, she soon realized that she could not carry on the deception, and she named Yuan Zhao emperor—selecting him due to his young age so that she could control him. ▲Yuan Zhao was a son of Yuan Baohui (元寶暉) the Prince of Lintao, who was a grandson of [[Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei\|Emperor Xiaowen]] and therefore cousin to [[Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei\|Emperor Xiaoming]], the reigning emperor at the time of Yuan Zhao's birth in 526. In 528, Emperor Xiaoming was poisoned to death by his mother [[Empress Dowager Hu (Xiaoming)\|Empress Dowager Hu]] after trying to curb her power and trying to kill her lover Zheng Yan (鄭儼). Emperor Xiaoming was sonless, and while Empress Dowager Hu initially tried to pretend that [[Daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei\|Emperor Xiaoming's daughter]], by his [[concubine]] Consort Pan, was actually a son, she soon realized that she could not carry on the deception, and she named Yuan Zhao emperor—selecting him due to his young age so that she could control him. The general [[Erzhu Rong]], with whom Emperor Xiaoming had conspired against Empress Dowager Hu, refused to recognize Yuan Zhao as emperor, quickly descending on the capital [[Luoyang]] with his troops and declaring a son of Emperor Xiaowen's brother [[Yuan Xie]], [[Emperor Xiaozhuang of Northern Wei\|Yuan Ziyou]], emperor (as Emperor Xiaozhuang). Less than two months after Yuan Zhao was declared emperor, Erzhu had captured Luoyang and put Empress Dowager Hu and Yuan Zhao under arrest. After Empress Dowager Hu tried, unsuccessfully, to defend her actions before Erzhu, Erzhu had her and Yuan Zhao thrown into the [[Yellow River]] to drown. ==Legacy== Traditional historians treat Yuan Zhao ambiguously, and subsequent Northern Wei emperors never explicitly officially declared whether he was an emperor or not. He was not given an imperial [[posthumous name]] or [[temple name]], but neither was his imperial status declared null. The official history of Northern Wei, the ''[[Book of Wei]]'', written during the succeeding [[Northern Qi]], did not list Yuan Zhao in its imperial biographies (and indeed, did not have a biography for him or his father at all), listing the events during his brief reign under the biography of Emperor Xiaoming, but used the term ''beng'' (崩) to describe his death,<ref>''Book of Wei'', [[:zh:s:魏書/卷9\|vol. 9]].</ref> a term reserved for the deaths of emperors and empresses. == ~~References~~ Ancestry== {{ahnentafel \| align = center \| boxstyle_1 = background-color: #fcc; \| boxstyle_2 = background-color: #fb9; \| boxstyle_3 = background-color: #ffc; \| boxstyle_4 = background-color: #bfc; \| boxstyle_5 = background-color: #9fe; \| 1 = Yuan Zhao (526–528) \| 2 = Yuan Baohui (503–528) \| 4 = Yuan Yu (488–508) \| 5 = Empress Yang (481–509) \| 8 = [[Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei]] (467–499) \| 9 = Lady Yuan \| 10 = Yang Gui \| 16 = [[Emperor Xianwen of Northern Wei]] (454–476) \| 17 = Empress Si (d. 469) }}▼ == Notes == {{Notelist}} <references group="note" responsive="1"></references> <references group="note"/> ==References== {{Reflist}} * ''[[Zizhi Tongjian]]'', [[:zh:s:資治通鑑/卷152\|vol. 152]]. 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