912 - 912 Births, 912 Deaths, Nikephoros II Phokas, Oleg of Novgorod, Emperor Taizu of Later Liang, Otto I, Holy Roman Emper (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: 912 births, 912 deaths, Nikephoros II Phokas, Oleg of Novgorod, Emperor Taizu of Later Liang, Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Han Jian, Leo VI the Wise, List of state leaders in 912, Notker the Stammerer, Qusta ibn Luqa, Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Ibn Khordadbeh, Pelagius of Cordova, Ahmad ibn Yusuf, Smbat I, Minamoto no Mitsunaka, Guanxiu, Otto I, Duke of Saxony, Pietro Tribuno, Hyejong of Goryeo, Rudolph I of Burgundy, Xue Juzheng, Alberic II of Spoleto, Ry gen, Hyogong of Silla, Nakatsukasa. Excerpt: Emperor Taizu of Later Liang ( ), personal name Zhu Quanzhong ( ) (852-912), ne Zhu Wen ( ), name later changed to Zhu Huang ( ), nickname Zhu San (, literally, "the third Zhu"), was a Jiedushi (military governor) at the end of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, who previously served as a general under the major agrarian rebel Huang Chao's state of Qi and overthrew Tang in 907, established the Later Liang Dynasty as its emperor, and ushered in the era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Details on Zhu Wen's origin are scarce. He was born the youngest of three sons, Quanyu, Cun and Wen, his father, Zhu Cheng, an instructor in the Five Classics in Dangshan County, Songzhou. There was also a sister who married one Yuan Xiangxian of Xiayi, Songzhou, whose father and grandfather had held office on a provincial and prefectural level. Zhu Cheng died while Wen was still a boy, likely about 864, or after. His widow brought her three sons to live in the household of Liu Chong of Xiao County, Xuzhou. Zhu Cheng's mother is known to have been surnamed Liu. It is therefore possible that Liu Chong was a relative of Zhu Wen's grandmother. If this was in fact the case, Zhu Cheng's origin can not have been too obscure since the Liu family was the leading family in the area. The marriage of the daughter into the Yuan famil...