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Gao Aocao 高敖曹

Died AD 538

Passages
4
Chapters
3
Histories
3

Overview

The translated histories identify Gao Aocao as a general and official. This record brings together 4 passages from 3 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Gao Aocao 高敖曹 Gao Aocao
Personal name Gao Aocao 高敖曹 Gao Aocao

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • General
  • Official

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: killed-in-battle · Place: Heyin / 河陰 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元象元年八月辛卯 · Western Year: AD 538
    Explicit · weishu:111:s0280

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 元象元年八月辛卯 · Western Year: AD 538
    Explicit event contextual date · weishu:111:s0280, weishu:111:s0278
  • Source Date: Text: 東魏司徒、河南大將軍、大行台侯景 · Western Year: AD 546
    Explicit event contextual date · zizhitongjian:159:s0328a
  • Source Date: Text: 魏孝武西遷 · Western Year: AD 534
    Explicit event contextual date · zhoushu:043:s0179

Career and standing

  • Label: Minister over the Masses / 司徒公 · Action: held
    Explicit · weishu:111:s0280

References in the histories

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Book of Wei, Chapter 111Volume 105a Treatise 1: Celestial Phenomena 1 · 1 passage
Book of Zhou, Chapter 43Volume 43 Biographies 35: Li Yansun; Wei You; Han Xiong; Chen Xin; Wei Xuan · 2 passages
Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Chapter 159Volume 159 Liang Records 15 · 1 passage