Duke Yi of Lu was a ruler of the state of
Lu during the
Western Zhou Dynasty
The Western Zhou ( zh, c=, p=Xīzhōu; c. 1045 BC – 771 BC) was a royal dynasty of China and the first half of the Zhou dynasty. It began when King Wu of Zhou overthrew the Shang dynasty at the Battle of Muye and ended when the Quanrong nom ...
, succeeding his father
Duke Wu as the tenth ruler of Lu. His ancestral name was Ji, and given name Xi.
Despite being the younger son of Duke Wu, he was made heir apparent over his older brother Kuo by the intervention of
King Xuan of Zhou. After nine years of rule, supporters of Kuo and of his son Boyu rose in revolt and murdered Duke Yi; Boyu was then proclaimed to be the Duke of Lu by the rebels.
Records of the Grand Historian
''Records of the Grand Historian'', also known by its Chinese name ''Shiji'', is a monumental history of China that is the first of China's 24 dynastic histories. The ''Records'' was written in the early 1st century by the ancient Chinese his ...
,Book 33,"懿公九年，懿公兄括之子伯御與魯人攻弒懿公，而立伯御為君。"
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9th-century BC Chinese monarchs
807 BC deaths