# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emperor-xiaowu-of-northern-wei
# Generated: 2026-08-16T12:45:01.118Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emperor-xiaowu-of-northern-wei"
name: "Emperor Xiaowu of Northern Wei"
slug: "emperor-xiaowu-of-northern-wei"
description: "Emperor Xiaowu of Northern Wei ( 魏孝武帝), personal name Yuan Xiu, courtesy name Xiaoze (孝則), at times known as Emperor Chu, was the last emperor of the Xianbei-led Chinese Northern Wei dynasty. After the general Gao Huan rebelled against and defeated the clan of the deceased paramount general Erzhu Rong in 532, he made Emperor Xiaowu emperor. Despite Gao's making him emperor, however, Emperor Xiaowu tried strenuously to free himself from Gao's control, and in 534, he, aligning with the general Yuwen Tai, formally broke with Gao. When Gao advanced south to try to again take control of the imperial government, Emperor Xiaowu fled to Yuwen's territory, leading to Northern Wei's division into two. Emperor Xiaowu's relationship with Yuwen, however, soon deteriorated over Yuwen's refusal to condone his incestuous relationships with his cousins, and around the new year 535, Yuwen poisoned him to death. Emperor Xiaowu's successor, Yuan Baoju, is typically regarded, then, as the first emperor of Western Wei, formalizing the division of the empire."
tagline: "Last Northern Wei emperor (510-535)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "510"
deathDate: "535"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.661776
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AD%8F%E5%AD%9D%E6%AD%A6%E5%B8%9D"
    title: "魏孝武帝"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Сяо У-дзі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Xiaowu_of_Northern_Wei"
    title: "Emperor Xiaowu of Northern Wei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AD%9D%E6%AD%A6%E5%B8%9D_(%E5%8C%97%E9%AD%8F)"
    title: "孝武帝 (北魏)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "북위 효무제"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beiwei_Xiaowudi"
    title: "Beiwei Xiaowudi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Xiaowu_od_Sjevernog_Weija"
    title: "Car Xiaowu od Sjevernog Weija"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%B4%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A7%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%A2%E0%B9%8C%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B9%E0%B9%88"
    title: "จักรพรรดิเว่ย์เสี้ยวอู่"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaowu"
    title: "Xiaowu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8F%D0%BE_%D0%A3-%D0%B4%D1%96_(%D0%9F%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%B9)"
    title: "Сяо У-ді (Північна Вей)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E1%BA%AFc_Ng%E1%BB%A5y_Hi%E1%BA%BFu_V%C5%A9_%C4%90%E1%BA%BF"
    title: "Bắc Ngụy Hiếu Vũ Đế"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AD%8F%E5%AD%9D%E6%AD%A6%E5%B8%9D"
    title: "魏孝武帝"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C5%ABi_H%C3%A0u-b%C3%BA-t%C3%A8"
    title: "Gūi Hàu-bú-tè"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%83%E4%BF%AE"
    title: "元修"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1071537"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump