Sima Bao [SEP] date of death
Sima Bao
Sima Bao (司馬保) (294–320), courtesy name Jingdu (景度), posthumous name Prince Yuan (元王), was a Jin Dynasty (265-420) imperial prince who briefly contended for the position of emperor after Emperor Min was captured by Han Zhao forces.
Sima Bao's father Sima Mo (司馬模) the Prince of Nanyang was a younger brother of Sima Yue the Prince of Donghai, who was regent for Emperor Hui and Emperor Huai. Both Sima Mo and Sima Yue were sons
of Sima Tai (司馬泰) the Prince of Gaomi, the son of Sima Yi's brother Sima Kui (司馬馗). Late in 313, after Emperor Huai was captured by Han Zhao after the fall of the capital Luoyang, Sima Mo, who was defending Chang'an, was captured by the Han Zhao general Zhao Ran (趙染) and executed.
At the time of his father's death, Sima Bao was at Shanggui (上邽, in modern Tianshui, Gansu). He took the title of the Prince of