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| Yuan Lang 元朗 | |||||||||
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| Emperor of Northern Wei | |||||||||
| Reign | 31 October 531[1] – 6 June 532[2] | ||||||||
| Predecessor | Emperor Jiemin | ||||||||
| Successor | Emperor Xiaowu | ||||||||
| Born | 513 | ||||||||
| Died | 26 December 532[3] | ||||||||
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| House | Yuan | ||||||||
| Dynasty | Northern Wei | ||||||||
Yuan Lang (Chinese: 元朗) (513[4] – 26 December 532), courtesy name Zhongzhe (仲哲), frequently known by his post-deposition title Prince of Anding (安定王), at times known in historiography as Emperor Houfei (後廢帝, "later deposed emperor"), was briefly an emperor of the Xianbei-led Chinese Northern Wei dynasty. He was proclaimed emperor by the general Gao Huan, who rebelled against the clan of the paramount general Erzhu Rong in 531, as a competing candidate for the imperial throne against Emperor Jiemin, who had been made emperor by Erzhu Rong's cousin Erzhu Shilong. In 532, after Gao's victory over the Erzhus, he believed Yuan Lang, whose lineage was distant from the recent emperors, to be unsuitable to be emperor, and instead made Yuan Xiu (Emperor Xiaowu) emperor. Emperor Xiaowu created Yuan Lang the Prince of Anding, but later that year put him to death.
- ^ ren'yin day of the 10th month of the 2nd year of the Jian'ming era, per Yuan Lang's biography in Book of Wei. His biography in Bei Shi indicated the same date, with the year as the 1st year of the Zhong'xing era.
- ^ xin'si day of the 4th month of the 2nd year of the Zhong'xing era, per Yuan Lang's biography in Bei Shi
- ^ jiachen day of the 11th month of the 4th year of the Zhong Datong era, per volume 155 of Zizhi Tongjian
- ^ Yuan Lang's biography in Book of Wei indicated that he was 20 (by East Asian reckoning) when he died. Thus, his birth year should be 513.