Gao Xinggui (高行珪)

Overview

The translated histories identify Gao Xinggui as an administrator, general, and official. This record brings together 12 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Gao Xinggui	高行珪	Gao Xinggui
Surname	Gao	高	Gao
Personal name	Gao Xinggui	高行珪	Gao Xinggui
Title	Grand Commandant	太尉
Given name	Xinggui	行珪	Xinggui

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:065:s0056

Roles

Administrator
General
Official

Life and dates

Death

Cause: illness
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:065:s0073

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天成初 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:065:s0065

Family

Sibling of Gao Xingzhou (高行周)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: full

Career and standing

Label: military commissioner of Dengzhou / 鄧州節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天成初 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:065:s0065
Label: Grand Commandant / 太尉 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:065:s0074

Places and affiliations

Place: Yan / 燕
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:065:s0056

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: accuser · Action: falsely-accused · Other Person Id: Fan Yanji (範延策)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:065:s0072
Kind: military · Role: surrendered · Other Person Id: Li Siyuan (李嗣源)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:065:s0060

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: grasping and coarse; poor administrator · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:065:s0066

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 65Volume 65 Book of Later Tang 41: Biographies 17: Li Jianji, Shi Junli, Gao Xinggui, Zhang Tingyu, Wang Sitong, Suo Zitong · 12 passages

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高行珪，燕人也。 Gao Xinggui was a native of Yan.

燕帥劉守光僭逆不道，莊宗令周德威征之，守光大懼，以行珪為武州刺史，令張犄角之勢。 When the Yan warlord Liu Shouguang seized power unlawfully, Zhuangzong sent Zhou Dewei against him. Shouguang in alarm made Xinggui prefect of Wu and set him to brace the frontier.

時明宗將兵助德威平燕，俄聞行珪至，率騎以禦之。 Mingzong was then assisting Dewei in the Yan campaign; when word came that Xinggui was advancing, he rode out to confront him.

明宗諭以逆順之理，行珪乃降。 Mingzong laid out the difference between rebellion and rightful service, and Xinggui submitted.

守光將元行欽在山北，聞行珪有變，即率部下軍眾以攻行珪。 Shouguang's officer Yuan Xingqin was in the northern hills; when he heard Xinggui had turned, he marched at once with his troops to attack him.

行珪遣弟行周告急於周德威，德威命明宗、李嗣本、安金全將兵援之。 Xinggui sent Xingzhou in haste to Zhou Dewei; Dewei ordered Mingzong, Li Siben, and An Jinquan to march to his relief.

尋以行珪為朔州刺史，曆忻、嵐二郡，遷雲州留後。 He was soon made prefect of Shuo, then served Xin and Lan in turn, and was promoted to acting military commissioner of Yun.

行珪性貪鄙，短於為政，在安州日，行事多不法。 Xinggui was grasping and coarse, a poor administrator; at An his rule was repeatedly outside the law.

副使範延策者，幽州人也，性剛直，累為賓職，及佐行珪，睹其貪猥，因強諫之，行珪不從。 His deputy Fan Yanji came from Youzhou, blunt and upright, and had served many lords as staff officer. Under Xinggui he saw the corruption and pressed him hard in counsel, but Xinggui would not listen.

行珪聞之，深銜之。 When Xinggui heard of the memorial he hated Fan Yanji bitterly.

未幾，行珪以疾卒。 Not long after, Xinggui died of illness.

詔贈太尉。 The court posthumously enfeoffed him as Grand Commandant.