Sui and Tang · Official and General

Guo Yuanzhen 郭元振

Attested AD 705 - AD 713

Passages: 4
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Guo Yuanzhen was an official and General.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 705 to AD 713 association with Zhao Yanzhao
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 123, passage 230
AD 713 蕭至忠等誅
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 123, passage 241
AD 710 to AD 713 郭元振
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 121, passage 125

Key source chapters

New Book of Tang, Chapter 121 Volume 121 Biographies 46: Liu, Zhong, Cui, and the Two Kings 2 passages
New Book of Tang, Chapter 123 Volume 123 Biographies 48: Li, Xiao, Lu, Wei, Zhao, He 2 passages

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 123, passage 230

Works and attributed material

said Yanzhao shared in secret plotting
Report · Speaker · With Zhao Yanzhao (趙彥昭)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 123, passage 241

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 121Volume 121 Biographies 46: Liu, Zhong, Cui, and the Two Kings · 2 passages

太子誠召張說、劉幽求、郭元振等計之，憂可紓也。」 Summon Zhang Yue, Liu Youqiu, Guo Yuanzhen, and others to counsel you, and your fear may ease."

太上皇聞外嘩噪，召郭元振升承天樓，閉關以拒，俄而侍御史任知古召募數百人於朝堂，不得入。 The retired emperor heard the uproar and sent Guo Yuanzhen to the tower to shut the gates; Censor Ren Zhigu raised hundreds at the court but could not enter.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 123Volume 123 Biographies 48: Li, Xiao, Lu, Wei, Zhao, He · 2 passages

與郭元振、薛稷、蕭至忠善。 He was close to Guo Yuanzhen, Xue Ji, and Xiao Zhizhong.

蕭至忠等誅，郭元振、張說言彥昭與秘謀，改刑部尚書、封耿國公，實封百戶。 When Xiao Zhizhong and others were executed, Guo Yuanzhen and Zhang Yue said Yanzhao had shared in secret plotting; he was made Minister of Justice, enfeoffed as Duke of Geng with a substantive fief of one hundred households.