Qin and Han · Eastern Han Courtier

Dou Du 窦笃

Attested AD 76 - AD 92

Passages
4
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Dou Du as an aristocrat, courtier, and official. This record brings together 4 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Dou Du 窦笃 Dou Du

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • Courtier
  • Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: AD 76-92 · Western Interval: Start: AD 76 · End: AD 92
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:085:s0131

Family

  • Sibling of Empress (Dou) (皇后)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: elder
  • Kinship Role: brothers · Quantity: unspecified plural · Statement: Dou Du and his brothers monopolized power and settled old grudges lethally.

Career and standing

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: forbearance · Role: political enemy · Action: did not harm Zhou Xu despite long-standing resentment because of Xu's rectitude · Other Person Id: Zhou Xu (周䊸)

Source notes

References in the histories

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Book of Later Han, Chapter 85Volume 77: Biographies of Cruel Officials · 4 passages