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Emperor Gaozu of Tang

Founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty (566-635) (r. 618–626)

  • Child of Li Bing and Dugu
  • Married to Dou, Yang-zhi, Wan-guifei and 6 more
  • Dated 8 April 566 CE – 25 June 635 CE
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A life on the record,
dated by its sources.

Roles, not beliefs

Overview

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Life

One office on record

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

What this means

As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.

  1. 18 June 618 CE – 4 September 626 CE Emperor of China jurisdiction: Tang dynasty Succeeded by Emperor Taizong of Tang

Family

The family of Emperor Gaozu of Tang

Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.

Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.

As documented
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What this means

A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.

Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

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Religious context

What the records tie them to

Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.

What this means

A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

How this site reads its sources

59 statements on this record

  • 27 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
  • 32 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

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