明 Míng
Biography
曹王
曹王明，母本巢王妃，帝寵之，欲立為後，魏徵諫曰：「陛下不可以辰贏自累。」乃止。貞觀二十一年，始王曹，累為都督、刺史。高宗詔出後巢王。永隆中，坐太子賢事，降王零陵，徙黔州。都督謝祐逼殺之，帝聞，悼甚，黔官吏皆坐免。景雲中，陪葬昭陵。三子：俊、傑、備。俊嗣王，南州別駕，傑為黎國公，垂拱時並及誅。神龍初，以傑子胤為嗣曹王。是時，諸王子孫自嶺外還，入見中宗，皆號慟，帝為泣下。初，武后時，壯者誅死，幼皆沒為官奴，或匿人間庸保。至是，相繼出，帝隨屬遠近封拜云。後備自南還，詔停胤封而封備，歷衛尉少卿同正員，薨。開元十二年，復封胤。薨，子戢嗣，位左衛率府中郎將。子臯嗣。
Prince of Cao
Ming, Prince of Cao: his mother had been the consort of the Prince of Chao. The Emperor favored her and wished to make her Empress, but Wei Zheng remonstrated: "Your Majesty must not burden yourself with a Chen Ying [a woman who passed from one husband to his kinsman]." So he gave it up. In the twenty-first year of Zhenguan Ming was first made Prince of Cao, and he served repeatedly as Area Commander-in-chief and Prefect. Gaozong issued an edict making him the heir of the Prince of Chao. In the Yonglong years he was implicated in the affair of the Heir Apparent Xian, reduced to Prince of Lingling and moved to Qian Prefecture. The Area Commander-in-chief there, Xie You, forced him to his death. When the Emperor heard of it he grieved deeply, and the officials of Qian Prefecture were all dismissed for it. In the Jingyun years Ming was buried as an attendant at the Zhao Mausoleum. He had three sons: Jun, Jie and Bei. Jun succeeded as prince and was Administrative Aide of Nanzhou; Jie was Duke of Li; in the Chuigong years both were caught up in the purge and put to death. At the start of Shenlong, Jie's son Yin was made Prince of Cao by Succession. At this time the descendants of the princes returned from beyond the passes of the south and came to see Zhongzong, all wailing aloud, and the Emperor shed tears for them. Earlier, under Empress Wu, the grown men had been put to death and the young all made government slaves, or they had hidden among the people as hired laborers. Now they came out one after another, and the Emperor enfeoffed and appointed them according to how near or distant their kinship was. Later Bei returned from the south, and an edict took Yin's fief away and gave it to Bei. Bei served as Vice Minister of the Court of the Imperial Regalia with the status of a regular official, and died. In the twelfth year of Kaiyuan, Yin's fief was restored to him. When he died his son Ji succeeded and rose to Commandant of the Left Guard Command of the Heir Apparent. Ji's son Gao succeeded him. Edit
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Source: 新唐书 卷八十 列传第五 太宗诸子 (New Book of Tang, juan 80, Biographies 5: Sons of Taizong)
Chinese Wikipedia: 李明 (唐朝) · Baidu Baike: 李明 (an article of the same name, not checked to be him)
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Notes (2)
- [Source] 新唐书 卷七十下 表第十下 宗室世系下 New Book of Tang, juan 70B, Table 10B: Genealogical Table of the Imperial Clan, part 2
- [Collation note] 卷首：「太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝十四子：長曰恒山愍王承乾，次曰楚王寬，出繼。次曰吳王恪，次曰濮王泰，次曰庶人祐，附濮王譜。次曰蜀王愔，次曰蔣王惲，次曰越王貞，次曰高宗，次曰紀王慎，次曰江王嚻，次曰代王簡，次曰趙王福，次曰曹王明。嚻、簡、福皆附曹王譜。」 The opening of the section: “Taizong (posthumous title: Wenwu Dasheng Daguang Xiao Huangdi) had fourteen sons: the eldest Chéngqián, Prince Min of Hengshan; next Kuān, Prince of Chu, adopted out as heir. Next Kè, Prince of Wu; next Tài, Prince of Pu; next Yòu, the commoner, entered with the line of the Prince of Pu. Next Yīn, Prince of Shu; next Yùn, Prince of Jiang; next Zhēn, Prince of Yue; next Gaozong; next Shèn, Prince of Ji; next Xiāo, Prince of Jiang; next Jiǎn, Prince of Dai; next Fú, Prince of Zhao; next Míng, Prince of Cao. Xiāo, Jiǎn and Fú are all entered with the line of the Prince of Cao.”