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Wu Youji (died July 17, 712), posthumous name Prince Zhongjian of Ding (定忠簡王), was an imperial prince of the Wu Zhou dynasty and an official of the Tang dynasty.[1]

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  1. 37 relations: Chancellor of the Tang dynasty, Chang'an, Concubinage, Crown prince, Cui Xuanwei, Emperor Gaozong of Tang, Emperor Gaozu of Tang, Emperor Ruizong of Tang, Emperor Shang of Tang, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, Empress dowager, Empress Wei (Tang dynasty), Huan Yanfan, Jing Hui, Li Chengqi, Li Chong (Tang dynasty), New Book of Tang, Old Book of Tang, Posthumous name, Princess Anle, Princess Taiping, Regent, Shanxi, Song Jing, Tang dynasty, Three Ducal Ministers, Wu Sansi, Wu Shiyue, Wu Zetian, Wu Zhou, Yao Chong, Yuan Shuji, Yuncheng, Zhang Jianzhi, Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong, Zizhi Tongjian.

  2. 712 deaths
  3. Tang dynasty imperial princes

Chancellor of the Tang dynasty

The chancellor was a semi-formally designated office position for a number of high-level officials at one time during the Tang dynasty of China.

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Chang'an

Chang'an is the traditional name of Xi'an.

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Concubinage

Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship between two people in which the couple does not want to, or cannot, enter into a full marriage.

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Crown prince

A crown prince or hereditary prince is the heir apparent to the throne in a royal or imperial monarchy.

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Cui Xuanwei

Cui Xuanwei (崔玄暐; 638–706), né Cui Ye (崔曄), formally Prince Wenxian of Boling (博陵文獻王), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty and Wu Zetian's Zhou dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reigns of Wu Zetian and her son Emperor Zhongzong.

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Emperor Gaozong of Tang

Emperor Gaozong of Tang (21 July 628 – 27 December 683), personal name Li Zhi, was the third emperor of the Chinese Tang dynasty, ruling from 649 to 683; after January 665, he handed power over the empire to his second wife Empress Wu (the future Wu Zetian), and her decrees were carried out with greater force than the decrees of Emperor Gaozong's.

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Emperor Gaozu of Tang

Emperor Gaozu of Tang (7 April 566 – 25 June 635), born Li Yuan, courtesy name Shude, was the founding emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, reigning from 618 to 626.

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Emperor Ruizong of Tang

Emperor Ruizong of Tang (22 June 662 – 13 July 716), personal name Li Dan, also known at times during his life as Li Xulun, Li Lun, Wu Lun, and Wu Dan, was the fifth and ninth emperor of the Chinese Tang dynasty. He was the eighth son of Emperor Gaozong and the fourth son of Emperor Gaozong's second wife Empress Wu.

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Emperor Shang of Tang

Emperor Shang of Tang (695 or 698 – 5 September 714), also known as Emperor Shao (少帝), personal name Li Chongmao, was an emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, ruling briefly in 710. Li Chongmao was the youngest son of Emperor Zhongzong, born to one of Zhongzong's concubines. As of 710, Empress Wei and her daughter Li Guo'er the Princess Anle were exceedingly powerful, but Li Guo'er was unable to convince Emperor Zhongzong to have her created crown princess.

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Emperor Xuanzong of Tang

Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (8 September 685 – 3 May 762), personal name Li Longji, was an emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, reigning from 712 to 756 CE. His reign of 44 years was the longest during the Tang dynasty. Through two palace coups, he seized the throne and inherited an empire still in its golden age.

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Emperor Zhongzong of Tang

Emperor Zhongzong of Tang (26 November 656 – 3 July 710), personal name Li Xian, and at other times Li Zhe or Wu Xian, was the fourth and seventh emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, ruling briefly in 684 and again from 705 to 710.

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Empress dowager

Empress dowager (also dowager empress or empress mother) is the English language translation of the title given to the mother or widow of a Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Vietnamese monarch in the Chinese cultural sphere.

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Empress Wei (Tang dynasty)

Empress Wei (personal name unknown; died July 21, 710) was an empress consort of the Chinese Tang dynasty. Wu Youji and empress Wei (Tang dynasty) are 7th-century births.

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Huan Yanfan

Huan Yanfan (桓彥範) (653–706), courtesy name Shize (士則), formally Prince Zhonglie of Fuyang (扶陽忠烈王), briefly known during the reign of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang as Wei Yanfan (韋彥範), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty and Wu Zetian's Zhou dynasty, serving as chancellor during the reign of Emperor Zhongzong.

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Jing Hui

Jing Hui (敬暉) (died 706), courtesy name Zhongye (仲瞱), formally Prince Sumin of Pingyang (平陽肅愍王), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty and Wu Zetian's Zhou dynasty, serving as chancellor during the reign of Emperor Zhongzong. Wu Youji and Jing Hui are 7th-century births.

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Li Chengqi

Li Chengqi (679 – January 5, 742), known as Wu Chengqi during the reign of his grandmother Wu Zetian and as Li Xian after 716, formally Emperor Rang (literally, "the emperor who yielded"), was an imperial prince of the Tang dynasty who served as crown prince during the first reign of his father Emperor Ruizong, who yielded that position to his younger brother Li Longji (Emperor Xuanzong) during Emperor Ruizong's second reign. Wu Youji and Li Chengqi are Tang dynasty imperial princes.

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Li Chong (Tang dynasty)

Li Chong (李沖) (died September 22, 688), formally the Prince of Langye (琅邪王), posthumously known during Wu Zetian's reign as Hui Chong (虺沖), was an imperial prince of the Chinese Tang dynasty. Wu Youji and Li Chong (Tang dynasty) are Tang dynasty imperial princes.

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New Book of Tang

The New Book of Tang, generally translated as the "New History of the Tang" or "New Tang History", is a work of official history covering the Tang dynasty in ten volumes and 225 chapters.

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Old Book of Tang

The Old Book of Tang, or simply the Book of Tang, is the first classic historical work about the Tang dynasty, comprising 200 chapters, and is one of the Twenty-Four Histories.

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Posthumous name

A posthumous name is an honorary name given mainly to revered dead people in East Asian culture.

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Princess Anle

Princess Anle (安樂公主; 684? – 21 July 710), personal name Li Guo'er (李裹兒), was a Chinese princess of the Tang dynasty.

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Princess Taiping

Princess Taiping (lit. "Princess of Great Peace", personal name unknown, possibly Li Lingyue (李令月) (after 662 – 2 August 713) was a royal princess and prominent political figure of the Tang dynasty and her mother Wu Zetian's Zhou dynasty. She was the youngest daughter of Wu Zetian and Emperor Gaozong and was influential during the reigns of her mother and her elder brothers Emperor Zhongzong and Emperor Ruizong (both of whom reigned twice), particularly during Emperor Ruizong's second reign, when for three years until her death, she was the real power behind the throne. Wu Youji and princess Taiping are 7th-century births.

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Regent

In a monarchy, a regent is a person appointed to govern a state for the time being because the actual monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge their powers and duties, or the throne is vacant and a new monarch has not yet been determined.

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Shanxi

Shanxi is an inland province of China and is part of the North China region.

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Song Jing

Song Jing (宋璟) (663 – November 21, 737), formally Duke Wenzhen of Guangping (廣平文貞公), was a Chinese politician during the Tang dynasty and Wu Zetian's Zhou dynasty, serving as the chancellor during the reigns of Emperor Ruizong and Emperor Xuanzong.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.

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Three Ducal Ministers

The Three Ducal Ministers, also translated as the Three Dukes, Three Excellencies, or the Three Lords, was the collective name for the three highest officials in Ancient China and Imperial China.

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Wu Sansi

Wu Sansi (died August 7, 707), known posthumously as Prince Xuan of Liang (梁宣王), was a Chinese prince and politician of the Tang and Wu Zhou dynasties. Wu Youji and wu Sansi are 7th-century births and Tang dynasty imperial princes.

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Wu Shiyue

Wǔ Shìyuē (559–635 CE) was the father of Wu Zetian, the only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Empress Regnant.

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Wu Zetian

Wu Zetian (17 February 624 – 16 December 705), personal name Wu Zhao, was Empress of China from 660 to 705, ruling first through others and then (from 690) in her own right.

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Wu Zhou

Zhou, known in historiography as the Wu Zhou, was a short-lived Chinese imperial dynasty that existed between 690 and 705.

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Yao Chong

Yao Chong (650 – September 28, 721), born Yao Yuanchong (姚元崇), known 700s–713 by the courtesy name Yuanzhi (元之), formally Duke Wenxian of Liang (梁文獻公), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty and Wu Zetian's Wu Zhou dynasty, serving as chancellor under four sovereigns—Wu Zetian, her sons Emperor Zhongzong and Emperor Ruizong, and her grandson Emperor Xuanzong.

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Yuan Shuji

Yuan Shuji (袁恕己) (died 706), formally Prince Zhenlie of Nanyang (南陽貞烈王), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty and Wu Zetian's Zhou dynasty, serving as chancellor during the reign of Emperor Zhongzong.

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Yuncheng

Yuncheng is the southernmost prefecture-level city in Shanxi province, People's Republic of China.

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Zhang Jianzhi

Zhang Jianzhi (張柬之) (625Zhang's birth year of 625 is based on his biographies in the Old Book of Tang and the New Book of Tang, both of which indicated that he was 81 at the time of his death in 706. However, the New Book of Tang also indicated that he was in his 70s when he was summoned to the capital in 689 which, if true, would make him born in the 610s.

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Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong

Zhang Yizhi (張易之; died February 20, 705),Both volume 207 of Zizhi Tongjian and Wu Zetian's biography in volume 4 of New Book of Tang recorded that the Shenglong Coup took place on the guimao day of the 1st month of the 1st year of the Shenglong era of Wu Zetian's/Tang Zhongzong's reign. Wu Youji and Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong are 7th-century births.

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Zizhi Tongjian

The Zizhi Tongjian (1084) is a chronicle published during the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127) that provides a record of Chinese history from 403 BC to 959 AD, covering 16 dynasties and spanning almost 1400 years.

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See also

712 deaths

Tang dynasty imperial princes

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Youji

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