The twelfth emperor of the Zhou dynasty, he was the one that brought the Western Zhou dynasty to an end with his maladministration and started the age of warfare that followed.
King You became captivated by his concubine, Bao Si, and ousted his legal wife, the daughter of the Marquess of Shen, and her son, Yijiu, from their positions as queen and crown prince, respectively, and took Bau Si as his legal wife and her son Bufo as his new crown prince.
In 771 B.C., the Marquess of Shen, angered by this, made an agreement with the Quanrong, a tribe of horsemen from the west, and attacked the Zhou Dynasty, as a result, King You was captured and killed at the foot of Mount Li.
Meanwhile, the Marques of Shen established Yijiu as the new king of Zhou and named him King Ping, but the capital, Haojing, had already been ravaged by the Quanrong, so they were forced to move it to Luoyang in the east.
The birth date of King You is unknown. His reign was from 782 B.C. until his death in 771 B.C.
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