Emperor Yizong (懿宗)

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Yizong as a ruler. This record brings together 13 passages from 5 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Emperor Yizong	懿宗	Yizong
Temple name	Emperor Yizong	懿宗	Yizong
Title	Emperor Yizong
Temple	Emperor Yizong	懿宗	Yìzōng
Title	Tang Yizong	唐懿宗
Temple	Yizong	懿宗	Yizong
Regnal	Yizong	懿
Temple name	Yizong	懿宗	Yìzōng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:007:s0150, xintangshu:052:s0246
Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0003, jiuwudaishi:068:s0002
Value: male
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0094

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 咸通中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 860 · End: AD 874
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:068:s0002
Source Date: Text: 懿宗 · Western Interval: Start: AD 859 · End: AD 873
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:007:s0150
Source Date: Text: 懿宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 859 · End: AD 873
Explicit · xintangshu:052:s0246
Source Date: Text: 懿宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 859 · End: AD 873
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:184:s0094
Source Date: Text: 懿朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 859 · End: AD 873
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0003

Family

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Parent of Princess Tongchang (同昌公主)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter

Places and affiliations

Label: Tang / 唐 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0003

Events and relationships

Kind: clemency · Role: ruler · Action: pardoned Yang Yan after reading Yang Shou’s letter · Other Person Id: Yang Yan (楊嚴)
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0114
Kind: military · Role: reigning-sovereign · Action: troops shifted to garrison Lingnan after Yunnan barbarian raids · Place: Lingnan / 嶺南
Explicit · xintangshu:052:s0246

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7Volume 7 Book of Later Liang 7: Taizu Annals 7 · 1 passage

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蓋唐室自懿宗失政，天下亂離，故武宗以下實錄，不傳於世。 From Tang Yizong's loss of rule the realm shattered; veritable records from Wuzong down no longer circulated.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 24Volume 24 Book of Later Liang 24: Biographies 14: Li Ting, Lu Ceng, Sun Zhi, Zhang Jun, Zhang Yan, Du Xunhe, Luo Yin, Chou Yin, Duan Shen · 1 passage

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父縠，仕懿、僖朝，官至右諫議大夫。 His father Gu had served under Emperors Yizong and Xizong and reached the post of Right Remonstrance Grand Master.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 1 passage

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父逢，咸通中為秘書監，以才名著於時。 His father Feng served as Director of the Palace Library under Emperor Yizong and was widely celebrated for his gifts as a writer.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 52Volume 52 Treatises 48: Finance and Economics 2 · 1 passage

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懿宗時，雲南蠻數內寇，徙兵戍嶺南。 Under Yizong, Yunnan barbarians repeatedly raided inward, and troops were shifted to garrison Lingnan.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 184Volume 184 Biographies 109: Ma, Yang, Lu, Lu · 9 passages

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懿宗時，擢累中書舍人、翰林學士承旨，以中書侍郎同中書門下平章事。 Under Emperor Yizong he rose in succession to Secretariat Drafter, Chief Academician of the Hanlin Academy, and Grand Councillor as Vice Director of the Secretariat.

天子嘉其功，進尚書右仆射，封晉陽縣男。 The emperor praised his achievement, promoted him to Right Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs, and enfeoffed him as Baron of Jinyang.

中尉楊玄價得君，而收與之厚，收之相，玄價實左右之； Commandant Yang Xuanjia had won the emperor's favor, and Shou was close to him; when Shou became chief minister, Xuanjia in fact guided him from behind;

帝見書惻然，乃宥嚴，坐收流死者十一人。 The emperor, moved by the letter, pardoned Yan; eleven men were punished with exile on Shou's account.

懿宗咸通初，自屯田員外郎入翰林為學士，以兵部侍郎同中書門下平章事，年三十六。 At the start of Xiantong under Emperor Yizong he entered the Hanlin from outer-court member of the Ministry of Revenue, became academician, then Grand Councillor as Vice Minister of War at thirty-six.