Prince of Yue

Who he is

Name

Li Renyou (Weiming Renyou)

Title

Prince of Yue (Yue wang)

Since

not pinned

Born

not known

Family

Weiming imperial clan; brother of Renzong, uncle of Huanzong, father of Li Anquan

Confidence

low

English Wikipedia (Xiangzong) gives him as father of Anquan and Prince of Yue; the pages we read do not date his death.

Overlord

The emperor.

What it holds

• A prince's rank and revenue; no territorial appanage is recorded (Xia princely titles seem to have been ranks, not fiefs; not verified).

How it was acquired

Not recorded.

Allies and rivals

Son Anquan. The dowager Luo (in 1206 the dowager backs the son). The emperor.

How things stand that morning

Probably alive, a senior prince at court. Treat his alive-or-dead status as open.

Wealth

Not recorded.

Military

None recorded.

Threats

• His death would open the title question.

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. before 1 March 1206 (date not pinned)Death of the Prince of Yue; Anquan asks to succeed to the title and is refused.Depends on: The prince's death. Stopped by: A grant of the title to Anquan.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: One English Wikipedia statement; no dates.

On the map: No land.

Primary sources for Great Xia

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
• 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 Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
• Compendium of Chronicles: the Turkic and Mongol tribes and the life of Chinggis Khan, Rashid al-Din Hamadani (about 1300 to 1311, in the Ilkhanate). The fullest description of who held what on the steppe around 1200, written a century later from Mongol court records (the Altan Debter) and from informants such as Bolad Chingsang. 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
• History of the Song, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345, from the Song veritable records, state histories and the Huiyao). The official history of the Southern Song, which ruled from Lin'an (Hangzhou) in 1200. Read online

5 more in the sources library for The Tarim, the Uyghurs and Xia.