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Encyclopedia: Table of Chinese monarchs (8259 words) |
 | King Yi of Zhou (ch 周懿王; zhōu yì wáng) or King I of Chou was the seventh sovereign of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty. |
| King Xiao of Zhou (ch 周孝王; zhōu xìao wáng) or King Hsiao of Chou was the eighth sovereign of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty. |
| King Yi of Zhou (ch 周夷王; zhōu yí wáng) or King I of Chou was the ninth sovereign of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty. |
| Zhou Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (912 words) |
| In the Chinese historical tradition, the rulers of the Zhou displaced the Yin and legitimized their rule by invoking the Mandate of Heaven, the notion that the ruler (the "son of heaven") governed by divine right but that his dethronement would prove that he had lost the mandate. |
| In 771 BC, after King You had replaced his queen with a concubine Baosi, the capital was then sacked by the joint force of the queen's father, who was the powerful Marquess of Shen, and the barbarians. |
| The queen's son Ji Yijiu was proclaimed the new king by the nobles from the states of Zheng, Lü, Qin and the Marquess of Shen. |
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