Five Dynasties · General and Rebel

An Shenxin 安審信

Ān Shěnxìn

Attested AD 936

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

An Shenxin was a general and Rebel.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 936 清泰三年五月
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 48, passages 85, 87-88

Family

Kinship Role wives-and-children · Quantity unspecified
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 87

Career and standing

commander of the northwest frontier vanguard 西北面行營先鋒指揮使
Held
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 85
Family executed and property confiscated
Authority Emperor Mo (末帝)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 87

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Tang 後唐 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 85

Events and relationships

Raided Baijing and defected to Taiyuan
AD 936 清泰三年五月 · Military · Defector
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 85

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 48Volume 48 Book of Later Tang 24: Later Emperors Annals 3 · 3 passages

戊申，張敬達奏，西北面先鋒都指揮使安審信率雄義左第二指揮二百二十七騎，並部下共五百騎，剽劫百井，叛入太原。 On wushen Zhang Jingda reported that An Shenxin, commander of the northwest frontier vanguard, had led two hundred twenty-seven horsemen of the Left Second Command of the Xiongyi army, together with five hundred horsemen counting his subordinates, raided Baijing, and defected to Taiyuan.

詔安審信及雄義兵士妻男並處斬，家產沒官。 An edict ordered that the wives and children of An Shenxin and the Xiongyi soldiers all be executed and their household property confiscated.

先是，雄義都在伏州屯戍，其指揮使安元信謀殺伏州刺史張朗，事泄，戍兵自潰，奔安審信軍，審信與之入太原。 Earlier the Xiongyi army had been garrisoned at Fuzhou. Its commander An Yuanxin had plotted to kill Fuzhou prefect Zhang Lang; when the plot was exposed the garrison troops broke ranks on their own, fled to An Shenxin's army, and Shenxin entered Taiyuan with them.