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He Jingrong 何敬容

Died AD 549

Passages
28
Chapters
3
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify He Jingrong as an administrator, courtier, official, and statesman. This record brings together 28 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal He Jingrong 何敬容 He Jingrong
Courtesy name Guoli 國禮 Guólǐ
Surname He
Personal name He Jingrong 何敬容 He Jingrong
Personal name He Jingrong 何敬容 Hé Jìngróng
Alternate name He of Wu Commandery 何吳郡
Given Jingrong 敬容 Jingrong

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Courtier
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Place: inside the siege / 圍內 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太清三年正月 · Western Year: AD 549
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0139

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 中大同元年三月 · Western Year: AD 546
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0063
  • Source Date: Text: 中大通三年 · Western Year: AD 531
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0045
  • Source Date: Text: 大同五年 · Western Year: AD 539
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0053
  • Source Date: Text: 大同十一年 · Western Year: AD 545
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0057
  • Source Date: Text: 天監初 · Western Year: AD 502
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0119
  • Source Date: Text: 太清三年正月 · Western Year: AD 549
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0139
  • Source Date: Text: 太清元年 · Western Year: AD 547
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0128
  • Source Date: Text: 普通二年 · Western Year: AD 521
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0122
  • Source Date: Text: 普通四年 · Western Year: AD 523
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0124
  • Source Date: Text: · Western Interval: Start: AD 530 · End: AD 535
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:036:s0154
  • Source Date: Text: 梁世 · Western Interval: Start: AD 502 · End: AD 557
    Explicit · chenshu:017:s0058
  • Source Date: Text: 齊世弱冠 · Western Interval: Start: AD 479 · End: AD 502
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0118

Family

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  • Child of He Youzhi (何攸之)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: grandson · Object Role: grandfather · Generation Distance: 2
  • Spouse of Concubine of He Jingrong (何敬容妾)
    Kinship Term: concubine / 妾 · Union Category: concubinage
  • Child of He Changxu (何昌珝)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Spouse of Princess Changcheng (長城公主)
    Kinship Term: married / 尚 · Union Category: marriage · Union Type: married princess
  • Parent of He Jiao (何瑴)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: Grand Master with the Golden Seal and Purple Ribbon / 金紫光祿大夫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中大同元年 · Western Year: AD 546
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0065
  • Label: Right Vice Director of the Secretariat / 尚書右僕射 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中大通三年 · Western Year: AD 531
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0045
  • Label: Left Vice Director and General Who Spreads Grace / 左僕射,加宣惠將軍 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中大通五年 · Western Year: AD 533
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0047
  • Label: Household Attendant to the Crown Prince / 太子中庶子 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 中大通元年 · Western Year: AD 529
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0127
  • Label: Central Authority General and Intendant of Danyang / 中權將軍、丹陽尹 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同中 · Western Year: AD 537
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0052
  • Label: Director of the Secretariat / 尚書令 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同五年 · Western Year: AD 539
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0053
  • Label: Secretariat Director / 中書令 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通二年 · Western Year: AD 528
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0126
  • Label: Interior Minister of Jian'an / 建安內史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監中 · Western Year: AD 502
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0120
  • Label: Palace Library Gentleman / 秘書郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監初 · Western Year: AD 502
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0119
  • Label: Crown Prince's Household Administrator / 太子詹事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太清元年 · Western Year: AD 547
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0128
  • Label: Commandant of the Horse Guards / 駙馬都尉 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 弱冠選尚 · Western Interval: Start: AD 479 · End: AD 502
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0118
  • Label: Attendant-in-Ordinary, concurrently Director of the Feathered Forest Guard / 侍中,領羽林監 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通二年 · Western Year: AD 521
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0122
  • Label: Minister of Personnel (acting) / 吏部尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通二年 · Western Year: AD 521
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0123
  • Label: General Who Summons the Distant and administrator of Wu Commandery / 招遠將軍、吳郡太守 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 普通四年 · Western Year: AD 523
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0124
  • Label: Chief Clerk in establishment of Central Authority / 中權何敬容府長史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 梁世 · Western Interval: Start: AD 502 · End: AD 557
    Explicit · chenshu:017:s0058
  • Label: General of Benevolent Awe / 仁威將軍 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太清三年正月 · Western Year: AD 549
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0139
  • Status: dismissal · Action: removed-from-office · Label: specially stripped of office / 詔特免職 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大同十一年 · Western Year: AD 545
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:037:s0060

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: brilliant reply about Vermilion Bird Gate · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liangshu:037:s0051
  • Assessment: diligent in clerical administration; scoffed at by contemporaries · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liangshu:037:s0055
  • Assessment: knew how to govern yet scorned by shallow men · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Yao Cha (姚察)
    Explicit · liangshu:037:s0102
  • Assessment: took only ordinary goods when dismissed; praised for lack of wealth · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liangshu:037:s0090
  • Kind: physical-description · Statement: eight chi tall, fair skin, handsome beard and brows
    Explicit · liangshu:037:s0043
  • Item: eastern residence donated as monastery / 舍宅東爲伽藍 · Relation: donated
    Explicit · liangshu:037:s0088

Source notes

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 17Volume 17: Wang Chong; Wang Tong; Yuan Jing · 1 passage
Book of Liang, Chapter 36Volume 36: Kong Xiuyuan; Jiang Ge · 2 passages
Book of Liang, Chapter 37Volume 37: Xie Ju; He Jingrong · 25 passages