Tuoba Yulü (; died 321) ruled as prince of the

Tuoba The Tuoba (Chinese language, Chinese) or Tabgatch (, ''Tabγač''), also known by #Names, other names, was an influential Xianbei clan in early imperial China. During the Sixteen Kingdoms after the fall of Han and the Three Kingdoms, the Tuoba e ...

Dai 316 to 321. He was the son of Tuoba Fu, and the father of

Tuoba Yihuai Tuoba Yihuai (; died 338) ruled as prince of the Tuoba The Tuoba (Chinese language, Chinese) or Tabgatch (, ''Tabγač''), also known by #Names, other names, was an influential Xianbei clan in early imperial China. During the Sixteen Kingdoms a ...

and Tuoba Shiyiqian. In 310, Tuoba Yulü was ordered by

Tuoba Yilu Tuoba Yilu (; died 316) was the chieftain of the western Tuoba territory from 295 to 307, supreme chieftain of the Tuoba from 307 to 316, Duke of Dai from 310 to 315, and first ruler of the Dai kingdom from 315 to 316. He was the son of Tuoba Sham ...

to assist

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, the Governor of Bingzhou (并州) (modern Shanxi province), to fight the Xiongnu

Tiefu Xia (), known in historiography as Hu Xia (胡夏), Northern Xia (北夏), Helian Xia (赫連夏) or the Great Xia (大夏), was a dynastic state of China ruled by the Helian clan of Tiefu-Xiongnu ethnicity during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. ...

chieftain Liu Hu. In 316, Tuoba Yulü became the Prince of Dai upon the death of

Tuoba Pugen Tuoba Pugen (; died 316) was the chieftain of the central Tuoba territory from 305 to 316, and in 316 ruled as prince of the Tuoba Dai (Sixteen Kingdoms), Dai as the supreme chieftain of the Tuoba clan. He was the son of Tuoba Yituo, and the brot ...

's unnamed infant son. In 318, he defeated the Tiefu chieftain Liu Hu and also captured some territory from the

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. In 321 he was killed in a ''

coup d'état A coup d'état (; ; ), or simply a coup , is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership. A self-coup is said to take place when a leader, having come to powe ...

'' launched by Pugen's widow, Lady Qi. She then installed her son,

Tuoba Heru Tuoba Heru (; died 325) ruled as prince of the Tuoba Dai 321 to 325. He was the son of Tuoba Yituo, and the brother of Tuoba Pugen and Tuoba Hena. In 321, when his cousin Tuoba Yulü was the Prince of Dai, Heru's mother, Lady Qi, launched a cou ...

, as the new Prince of Dai. Yulü at least had two daughters: one married (贺纥) the chieftain, one gave birth to (刘库仁) the future chieftain.

References

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