Guo Zixing 郭子興

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0003
• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · mingshi:127:s0017

Roles

• Aristocrat
• General
• Rebel
• Warlord

Family

• Child of Mother of Guo Zixing
  Kinship Term: bore / 生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 2
• Parent of Consort Hui (惠妃)
  Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological
• Parent of Eldest Son of Guo Zixing
  Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Object Birth Order: 1
• Child of Master Guo (郭公)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 2
• Parent of Guo Laoshe (郭老舍)
  Kinship Term: fourth son / 第四子 · Object Birth Order: 4
• Parent of Guo Tianxu (郭天敘)
  Kinship Term: next son / 次 · Parentage: biological · Object Birth Order: 2
• Parent of Empress Xiaoci Gao (孝慈高皇后)
  Kinship Term: raised/fostered / 所撫 · Parentage: foster
• Spouse of Younger Lady Zhang (小張夫人)
  Kinship Term: second wife / 次妻 · Union Category: secondary-marriage
• Parent of Guo Tianjue (郭天爵)
  Kinship Term: son / 天爵 · Parentage: biological · Object Birth Order: 3

• Kinship Role: male-line heirs · Count: 0 · Negated: true · Note: line ended after Tianjue
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0068
• Kinship Role: sons · Count: 3
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0061

Career and standing

• Label: knight-errant / chivalrous strongman / 任俠
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0008
• Label: marshal / 元帥 · Action: held
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0017, mingshi:122:s0032
• Title: Prince of Chuyang / 滁陽王 · Action: posthumously-enfeoffed
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0070

Places and affiliations

• Polity Id: yuan · Relation: rebelled-against
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0009, mingshi:122:s0010
• Place: Caozhou / 曹州 · Relation: ancestral
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0003
• Place: Chuzhou / 滁州 · Relation: buried-at
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0060
• Place: Dingyuan / 定遠 · Relation: associated-with
  Strongly inferred · mingshi:122:s0004
• Place: Haozhou / 濠州 · Relation: seized
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0010

Events and relationships

• Kind: personal · Role: subject · Action: fell ill and died; buried Chuzhou
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0060
• Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: held Haozhou under Yuan siege five months
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0031
• Kind: political · Role: victim · Action: seized and imprisoned by Zhao Junyong in Deya's house · Other Person Id: Zhao Junyong (趙均用)
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0027
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: seized Haozhou · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至正十二年春 · Western Year: AD 1352
  Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:122:s0010
• Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Taizu (太祖)
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0013
• Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Zhao Junyong (趙均用)
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0025, mingshi:122:s0027
• Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Sun Deya (孫德崖)
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0019, mingshi:122:s0027
• Relation: ally-of · Person Id: Peng Da (彭大)
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0025

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: fierce and warlike but obstinate and unforgiving · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0039
• Assessment: Ming enterprise began with his Chuyang brigade; enfeoffment deserved · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · mingshi:122:s0155, mingshi:122:s0156