Wang Du
Wang Du () (died March 26, 929), né
Liu Yunlang (), was a warlord during the early
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of
China as the military governor (''
Jiedushi'') of Yiwu Circuit (義武, headquartered in modern
Baoding,
Hebei). He seized control of Yiwu from his adoptive father
Wang Chuzhi in a coup, and subsequently ruled it semi-independently as a vassal of
Jin and Jin's successor state
Later Tang. In 928, then-reigning
Emperor Mingzong of Later Tang, believing that Wang was about to openly rebel, ordered a general campaign against him, and, after a lengthy siege, Wang killed himself and his family by self-immolation as his capital was falling.
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