Kong Xun (孔循) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Kong Xun as a courtier, official, and servant. This record brings together 4 passages from 4 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Kong Xun	孔循	Kong Xun
Surname	Kong	孔	Kǒng
Surname	Kong	孔	Kong
Personal	Kong Xun	孔循
Personal name	Kong Xun	孔循	Kong Xun
Personal	Kong Xun	孔循	Kǒng Xún
Given	Xun	循	Xún
Given	Xun	循	Xun

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:062:s0104, xinwudaishi:007:s0111
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:146:s0196
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0029

Roles

Courtier
Official
Servant

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0029

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 唐天成三年七月…時孔循以曲法殺一家 · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 928
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:146:s0191, jiuwudaishi:146:s0196
Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 928
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:007:s0111
Source Date: Text: 事李七郎時 · Western Year: AD 900
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:062:s0104
Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:042:s0029

Family

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Parent of Consort of Li Conghou (從厚妃)
Kinship Term: daughter / 女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father

Career and standing

Label: privy commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: dismissed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 928
Explicit · xinwudaishi:007:s0111
Label: Cangzhou military commissioner / 滄州節度使 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0029
Label: execution of a family under the yeast law / 以曲法殺一家 · Action: carried-out · Place: Luoyang / 洛陽 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 孔循以曲法殺一家於洛陽 · Western Year: AD 928
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:146:s0196

Places and affiliations

Place: Luoyang / 洛陽 · Relation: active-at
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:146:s0196

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: enforcer · Action: executed-family-under-yeast-law · Place: Luoyang / 洛陽 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 時孔循以曲法殺一家於洛陽 · Western Year: AD 928
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:146:s0196
Relation: fellow-servant-with · Person Id: Dong Zhang (董璋)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:062:s0104

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:146:s0196

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

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壬申，以滄州節度使孔循卒廢朝。 On renshen Kong Xun of Cangzhou died and court was suspended.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 62Volume 62 Book of Later Tang 38: Biographies 14: Meng Fangli, Zhang Wenli, Dong Zhang · 1 passage

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幼與高季興、孔循俱事豪士李七郎為童仆。 As a boy he served the swaggering Master Li the Seventh alongside Gao Jixing and Kong Xun as a household page.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 146Volume 146: Treatises 8 Finance and Economics · 1 passage

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時孔循以曲法殺一家於洛陽，或獻此議，以為愛其人，便於國，故行之。 At that time Kong Xun had executed a family in Luoyang under the yeast law; someone submitted this proposal, thinking it showed care for the people and served the state, and so it was adopted.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7Volume 7 Later Tang Annals 4: Deposed Emperors · 1 passage

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從厚妃，孔循女也，安重誨怒循以女妻從厚，三年，罷循樞密使，出從厚為宣武軍節度使。 Conghou’s consort was Kong Xun’s daughter. An Chonghui was angered that Kong Xun had married her to Conghou; in the third year, Xun was removed as privy commissioner and Conghou was sent out as military governor of Xuanwu.