Gao Yanzong 高延宗

Family

• Child of Lady Chen (陳氏)
  bore 生 · maternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 6
• Child of Gao Cheng (高澄)
  father of 生
  father 父 · paternal line
  son 子 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passages 6, 128
• Sibling of Prince Changgong of Lanling (長恭)
  fourth brother 四兄 · Paternal half siblings
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passages 91, 128, 142
• Child of Lady Chen (陳氏)
  mother 母 · maternal line
  mother 母
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 129
• Child of Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi (文宣帝)
  raised 養 · Foster parentage
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 130
• Sibling of Gao Xiaoyu (高孝瑜)
  younger brothers 諸弟 · Paternal half siblings
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passages 6, 17

• Kinship Role brothers · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 141

Career and standing

• Grand Commandant 太尉
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 150
• Minister over the Masses 司徒
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 150
• Governor of Ding Province 定州刺史
  Held
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 134
• Prince of Ande 安德王
  Enfeoffed
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 133
• Prince of Ande 安德王
  Held
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passages 128, 133
• beaten one hundred strokes, plus thirty more
  Corporal punishment · Suffered · Authority Emperor Xiaozhao (孝昭帝) · Agent Person Id Zhao Daode (趙道德)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passages 136-137

Places and affiliations

• Polity Northern Qi 北齊 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 128
• At Ding Province 定州 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passages 134, 136

Works and attributed material

• handwritten remonstrance, the page soaked with tears
  Letter · Author · With Prince of Guangning (廣寧王)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 146
• 四兄非大丈夫，何不乘勝徑入？使延宗當此勢，關西豈得復存。
  Speech · Speaker · With Prince Changgong of Lanling (長恭) · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passages 142-143
• 何故殺我兄！
  Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 148

Events and relationships

• defecated from an upper story for men below to catch in their mouths; mixed steamed grain with human dung to feed attendants and whipped any who looked disgusted
  Personal · Perpetrator · Humiliated attendants
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passages 134-135
• Repented
  Personal · Subject
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 140
• Tested blades on prisoners
  Legal · Perpetrator
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 138
• Wept
  Personal · Mourner · With Prince of Hejian (河間王)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 147
• made a straw man in Wucheng's likeness, whipped it and demanded why he had killed his brother
  Personal · Perpetrator · Whipped straw effigy · With Emperor Wucheng (武成帝)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 148

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment arrogant and unrestrained, broke the law in many ways · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 139
• Assessment Fourth brother is no true man — why not press the victory and march straight in · Mode quotation Speaker Gao Yanzong (高延宗)
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passage 142

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 11, passages 5, 128