King Yuan of Zhou

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Categories: 469 BC deaths | Zhou Dynasty kings

King Yuan of Zhou, (Chinese: 周元王; pinyin: zhōu yúan wáng; Wade-Giles: King Yüan of Chou) was the twenty-seventh sovereign of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty and the fifteenth of Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

Personal information

Family name	Ji (姬 jī) in Chinese
Given name	Ren (仁 rén) in Chinese
Era name	none
Father	King Jing of Zhou (Ji Gai)
Mother	unknown
Wife	unknown
Children	King Zhending of Zhou
Duration of reign	475 BC-469 BC
Tomb	unknown
Temple name	unknown
Courtesy name	unknown
Posthumous name	元 (pinyin: yúan), literary meaning: "primary", "original" or "chief"