Five Dynasties · General

An Yuanxin 安元信

Ān Yuánxìn

Attested AD 936

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

An Yuanxin was a general.

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, passage 88

Career and standing

commander of the Xiongyi army 雄義軍指揮使
Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 88

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Tang 後唐 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 88

Events and relationships

Plotted to kill Zhang Lang
Violence · Plotter · With Zhang Lang (張朗)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 88

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 48Volume 48 Book of Later Tang 24: Later Emperors Annals 3 · 1 passage

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.