Royal kin and queens · The Jin empire of Zhangzong · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Other princes

Shizong's sons are Zhangzong's uncles and his nearest rivals in blood.

Two of them are already dead: Yongdao in 1193 and Yongzhong in 1194 (their unflattering posthumous names hint at disgrace, which is not proved). The survivors in 1200 are Yonggong, Yongji, Yongde, Yongcheng and Yongsheng; Shunian and Xielu have no dates. The prudent assumption for the game is that the emperor watches his uncles and half-brothers and that none holds land of his own.

Who he is

Name
Yongde (Prince of Lu), Yongcheng (Prince of Yu), Yongsheng (Prince of Kui); Yongzhong and Yongdao dead
Title
Princes of Shizong's line
Since
n/a
Born
not known
Family
Sons of Shizong. Yongzhong (4th son, Prince Li of Gao) d. 1194; Yongdao (6th son, Prince La of Zheng) d. 1193; Yongde (8th son, Prince of Lu); Yongcheng (9th son, by a Liang lady, Prince of Yu) and Yongsheng (10th son, by a Shimo lady, Prince of Kui) are alive; both deaths are in the likely course. Two older sons, Shunian (Prince of Zhao) and Xielu (Prince of Yue), have no dates on the page.
Confidence
low

English Wikipedia's Shizong page; unflattering posthumous names (Li and La) suggest, but do not prove, disgrace under Zhangzong. The circumstances were not checked.

Overlord

Emperor Zhangzong

How things stand that morning

Dead: Yongdao (1193) and Yongzhong (1194). Alive: Yongde, Yongcheng, Yongsheng and the others.

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

  1. 1204 and 1213Yongcheng dies in 1204; Yongsheng dies in 1213 (English Wikipedia).Depends on: Natural events and the 1213 coup. Stopped by: n/a

Places of note

  • Zhongdu: The Central Capital.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: One page, no circumstances.

On the map: A person or office with no land of its own; the drawing is a marker.

Primary sources for Jin empire

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

  • Annals of the Western Xia, Wu Guangcheng (吳廣成) (1825 to 1827, compiled from Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's year-by-year reconstruction of Tangut history from the Chinese histories, since the Xia left no surviving annals of their own in Chinese. Read online
  • Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government, Bi Yuan (畢沅), completed by Feng Jiwu after his death (late eighteenth century, finished after 1801, from Song and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's continuous month-by-month chronicle of the Song and Yuan centuries, compiled from the Song shi, the Liao, Jin and Yuan histories, Li Tao, Li Xinchuan and other Song sources. Read online
  • Essentials of the History of Goryeo, Kim Jong-seo (金宗瑞) and the Joseon history office (1452). The chronological companion to the Goryeosa, finished a year after it and drawing on the same lost records, sometimes with entries the Goryeosa omits. Read online
  • Outline and Details of Two Reigns (thirteenth century, after 1224). A Song outline-and-detail chronicle of exactly the two reigns around 1200, drawn from the court's daily records. Read online
  • Record of the Personal Campaigns of the Holy Warrior (Chinggis Khan) (presented to Khubilai in 1288, finished in Mongolian in 1290; the surviving Chinese version dates from 1369). A year-by-year Chinese account of Temujin's wars, drawn from the lost Altan Debter (the same source behind the Yuan shi's first chapter and Rashid al-Din). Read online
  • The Secret History of the Mongols (1228 or 1240 (the colophon's Year of the Rat is disputed), with later additions; the surviving Chinese transcription and gloss were made under the Ming in the 1380s). The only Mongol account of Temujin's rise, written within living memory. Read online
  • History of the Jin, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office, with Ouyang Xuan among the chief compilers (1343 to 1344, from the Jin veritable records and the Jin national history). The official history of the Jurchen empire that ruled north China and Manchuria in 1200. Read online
  • Record of the Great Jin State, Attributed to Yuwen Maozhao (宇文懋昭); the attribution is doubtful (preface dated 1234; probably assembled in the Southern Song from Song and Jin material, with later accretions). A Song-side history of the Jin, with annals for each emperor and chapters on institutions, customs, the capitals and the Jurchen way of life. Read online

14 more in the sources library for North China and Manchuria.

Sources and studies

  1. Emperor Shizong of Jin (English Wikipedia, with the list of his consorts, sons and daughters)
  2. Jinshi (History of the Jin), Benji of Zhangzong, Dili zhi, Hequ zhi, Shihuo zhi and Bing zhi (recalled from memory and the secondary literature; the text itself could not be opened in this session)

Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.