The Marquess of Shen (

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: , p ''Shēnhóu''; d. 771 BCE) was a Qiang ruler of Shen during China’s Zhou dynasty. A

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of the Zhou, Shen state covered the area of modern-day

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in Henan. One of the Marquess of Shen’s daughters married the Zhou King You. As Queen Shen, she gave birth to

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Yijiu, but another consort named

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persuaded the king to banish the queen and favor her son

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over Yijiu. Furious, the Marquess of Shen allied with the Zeng and Quanrong

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to attack the Zhou capital Haojing. King You lit beacons to summon his nobles, but none came and he was killed at the foot of Mount Li near modern-day Xi'an. Thereafter, the Marquesses of Shen, Zeng, and Xu enthroned Yijiu as King Ping of Zhou in Shen. This marked the end of the Western Zhou and the beginning of the

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Rulers of the Zhou states – with links to their occurrences in pre-Qin and Han texts. The Marquess died in 771 BCE.

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Zhou dynasty people 771 BC deaths Year of birth unknown 8th-century BC Chinese monarchs {{China-royal-stub