Death of Song Emperor Qinzong in the Jin State

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1. 1127–1128from Shangjing Huining Prefecture to Hanzhou, Jin · HeilongjiangIn the second year of Jingkang the Jin deposed emperors Huizong and Qinzong and forcibly took them north. In July the two emperors were captured and taken north; on the twenty-first day of August they arrived at Shangjing Huining Prefecture, performed the 'leading sheep' rite, and paid respects at the temple of Jin founder Taizu. The Jin enfeoffed Huizong as Duke Hundeqin and Qinzong as Marquis Chonghun, and in October moved them to Hanzhou. After Prince Kang Zhao Gou ascended the throne, he posthumously honored Qinzong as Emperor Yuansheng from afar.
2. 1130–1135Wuguocheng · HeilongjiangIn the seventh month of the eighth year of Tianhui, the Jin moved emperors Huizong and Qinzong to Wuguocheng under house arrest, cut off from the outside world. After the Shaoxing peace settlement (1141), Qinzong's title was changed to Duke of Tianshui Commandery. In the fourth month of the fifth year of Shaoxing, Huizong died of illness at Wuguocheng; Qinzong continued his captivity alone, during which he fathered children within Jin territory.
3. 1156–1161Yanjing, Jin state · BeijingIn the twenty-sixth year of Shaoxing Qinzong died in the Jin state at the age of fifty-seven; his posthumous name was Emperor Gongwen Shunde Renxiao, his temple name Qinzong, and he was buried at Yongxian Mausoleum (in present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang). News of his death did not reach Lin'an until the thirty-first year of Shaoxing, when Emperor Gaozong held mourning rites. After Qinzong's death, Gaozong no longer worried about a northern-returning sovereign and the following year abdicated to Xiaozong.