King Huan of Zhou

King Huan of Zhou
周桓王
King of China
Reign 719–697 BC
Predecessor King Ping of Zhou
Successor King Zhuang of Zhou[1]
Died 697 BC
Spouse Jī[2]
Issue King Zhuang of Zhou
Full name
Ancestral name: Jī (姬)
Given name: Lín (林)
House Zhou Dynasty
Father Crown Prince Xiefu

King Huan of Zhou (Chinese: 周桓王; pinyin: Zhōu Húan Wáng; Wade–Giles: Chou Huan Wang; died 697 BC) was the fourteenth king of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty[3][4] and the second of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 BC).

His given name was Lín.[5]

King Huan’s father was King Ping’ son, Crown Prince Xiefu. Huan succeeded his grandfather in 719 BC.[6]

The son and successor of Huan was King Zhuang of Zhou.

In 707 BC, the royal forces were defeated in the Battle of Xuge (𦈡葛之战) by Duke Zhuang of Zheng (r.743-701). The king himself was wounded by an arrow in the shoulder, and the defeat destroyed the prestige of the Zhou house.[7]

See also

  1. Family tree of ancient Chinese emperors

References

  1. ↑ Chinese Text Project, Rulers of the Zhou states – with links to their occurrences in pre-Qin and Han texts.
  2. ↑ Family tree of Chinese kings
  3. ↑ Sử ký Tư Mã Thiên những điều chưa biết - Chu bản kỷ, Bùi Hạnh Cẩn - Việt Anh dịch (2005), NXB Văn hoá thông tin
  4. ↑ Phương Thi Danh (2001), Niên biểu lịch sử Trung Quốc
  5. ↑ The Cambridge history of ancient China: from the origins of civilization to 221 B.C. Written by Michael Loewe.
  6. ↑ Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian
  7. ↑ Pines, Yuri (2002). Foundations of Confucian Thought: Intellectual Life in the Chunqiu period (722-453 B.C.E.). Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. p. 109. ISBN 9780824823962.
King Huan of Zhou
 Died: 697 BC
Regnal titles
Preceded by
King Ping of Zhou		 King of China
719–697 BC		 Succeeded by
King Zhuang of Zhou


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