Marquess of Shen (King Ping's grandfather)

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Marquess of Shen
申侯
Died771 BCE
IssueQueen Shen

The Marquess of Shen (

Shanxi province
.

One of the Marquess of Shen's daughters was married to

Eastern Zhou dynasty.[3]

During the early reign of King Ping, the Marquess of Shen dominated the politics of the Zhou court with his grandson as the

land ownership
of Guanzhong as much as the Qin state could recapture from Quanrong occupation.

References

  1. ^ Sima Qian. Records of the Grand Historian, "Zhou Dynasty Annals".
  2. ^ Bamboo Annals
  3. ^ Chinese Text Project, Rulers of the Zhou states – with links to their occurrences in pre-Qin and Han texts.