Huan Xuan

Huan Xuan
Reign1 January 404[1][2] – 19 June 404[3][1]
Born369[4][5]
Died19 June 404 (aged 35)[3][1]
SpouseEmpress Liu
Names
Family name: Huán (桓)
Given name: Xuán (玄)
Era dates
Yǒngshǐ 永始 (1 January 404[1][2] – 25 June 404[6])
Posthumous name
Emperor Wudao 武悼皇帝
DynastyHuan Chu (桓楚)
FatherHuan Wen
MotherLady Ma

Huan Xuan (Chinese: 桓玄; pinyin: Huán Xuán) (369 – 19 June 404), courtesy name Jingdao (敬道), nickname Lingbao (靈寶), formally Emperor Wudao of Chu (楚武悼帝), was a Jin Dynasty warlord who briefly took over the imperial throne from Emperor An of Jin and declared his own state of Chu (Chinese: 楚; pinyin: Chǔ) in 403, known in historiography as Huan Chu (Chinese: 桓楚; pinyin: Huán Chǔ), but was defeated by an uprising led by the general Liu Yu in 404 and killed. He was the youngest son of Huan Wen.

  1. ^ a b c d Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 113.
  2. ^ a b renchen day of the 12th month of the 2nd year of the Yuanxing era
  3. ^ a b renwu day of the 5th month of the 3rd year of the Yuanxing era
  4. ^ Huan Xuan's biography in Jin Shu indicated that he was 36 (by East Asian reckoning) when he died. Thus by calculation, his birth year should be 369.
  5. ^ Book of Jin, vol. 99.
  6. ^ "中央研究院".