Li Congyi (李從益) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Congyi as a royal family member and ruler. This record brings together 20 passages from 5 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Li Congyi	李從益	Li Congyi
Personal name	Congyi	從益	Congyi
Personal name	Congyi	從益
Title	Duke of Xun	郇國公	Xun Guogong
Title	Duke of Xun	郇國公
Personal name	Li Congyi	李從益	Li Congyi
Personal	Li Congyi	李從益	Lǐ Cóngyì
Title	Prince of Xu	許王
Title	Prince of Xu	許王	Xǔ Wáng
Title	Prince of Xu Congyi	許王從益	Xu Wang Congyi
Title	Prince Xu	許王	Xu Wang
Title	Prince Xu Congyi	許王從益
Personal name	Xu Congyi	從益	Cóngyì

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Value: male
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Roles

Royal Family Member
Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Manner: executed · Place: the capital / 京師 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天福十二年六月 · Western Year: AD 947
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Manner: ordered to die / 賜死 · Place: private residence / 私第 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 契丹主死 · Western Year: AD 947
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Age

Age: 17 · Reckoning: sui
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天福元年請立 · Western Year: AD 936
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Source Date: Text: 天福十二年；知南朝事；被殺 · Western Year: AD 947
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Source Date: Text: 天福四年封郇國公 · Western Year: AD 939
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Source Date: Text: 契丹主死 · Western Year: AD 947
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Source Date: Text: 晉天福中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 944
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Source Date: Text: 許王從益入汴 · Western Year: AD 947
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Source Date: Text: 許王從益居京師 · Western Year: AD 947
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Source Date: Text: 長興末 · Western Year: AD 933
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Source Date: Text: 開運末 · Western Year: AD 946
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:051:s0170

Family

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Child of Birth mother of Congyi (從益生母)
Kinship Term: birth mother / 宮嬪所生 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Sibling of Elder sister of Congyi (從益姊)
Kinship Term: elder sister / 姊 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Object Role: elder sister · Subject Role: younger brother
Child of Consort Wang Shufei (王淑妃)
Kinship Term: foster mother / 母之 · Parentage: foster · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Child of Mother of Li Congyi (李從益母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological
Spouse of Consort of Congyi (從益妃)
Kinship Term: princess consort / 王妃 · Union Category: marriage
Child of Li Siyuan (李嗣源)
Kinship Term: youngest son / 幼子 · Parentage: biological

Origins and identity

Dynasty: Tang / 唐 · Status: designated to sustain the Tang line
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Career and standing

Label: titular military commissioner of Caozhou / 遙領曹州節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開運末 · Western Year: AD 946
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Title: Duke of Xun / 郇國公 · Fief Households: 3000 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 晉天福中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 944
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Title: Duke of Xun / 郇國公 · Action: enfeoffed · Authority Person Id: Gaozu of Jin (晉高祖)
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Title: Prince of Xu / 許王 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興末 · Western Year: AD 933
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Title: Duke of Xun / 郇國公 · Action: held
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Title: Prince of Xu / 許王 · Action: held
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Title: Duke of Xun / 郇國公 · Action: retitled · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 晉天福中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 944
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Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: entrant · Action: entered · Place: Bian / 汴
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Kind: political · Role: installed-ruler · Action: governed-southern-court · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 契丹主死 · Western Year: AD 947
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Relation: proposed-successor-of · Person Id: Li Siyuan (李嗣源)
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Relation: appointed · Person Id: Zhai Guangye (翟光鄴)
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:049:s0011

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: coerced by strong enemy; unnatural death; pitied · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:051:s0198, jiuwudaishi:051:s0181

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 51Volume 51 Book of Later Tang 27: Biographies 3: Imperial Family · 13 passages

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許王從益，明宗之幼子也。 Prince Xu Congyi was Mingzong's youngest son.

長興末，封許王。 At the end of the Changxing era he was enfeoffed as Prince of Xu.

晉高祖即位，以皇后即其姊也，乃養從益於宮中。 When Gaozu of Jin took the throne, the empress being his elder sister, Congyi was raised in the palace.

晉天福中，以從益為二王後，改封郇國公，食邑三千戶。 During Jin Tianfu he was made heir to the second princely rank, retitled Duke of Xun, with a fief of three thousand households.

守陵開運末，契丹主至汴，以從益遙領曹州節度使，復封許王，與王妃尋歸西京。 While guarding the imperial tombs in late Kaiyun, the Khitan ruler reached Bian. Congyi was given titular command of Caozhou, again enfeoffed as Prince of Xu, and soon returned to the Western Capital with his consort.

乃詐稱契丹主命，遣人迎從益於洛陽，令知南朝軍國事。 so he falsely claimed the Khitan ruler's command, sent men to summon Congyi from Luoyang, and installed him to govern the southern court's military and civil affairs.

從益與王妃逃於徽陵以避之，使者至，不得已而赴焉。 Congyi and his consort fled to Huiling to escape the summons; when the envoys arrived, he had no choice but to go.

從益於崇元殿見群官。 Congyi received the assembled officials in Chongyuan Hall.

翰北歸，從益餞於北郊。 When Xiao Han marched north, Congyi gave him a farewell feast at the Northern Suburb.

及漢高祖將離太原，從益召高行周、武行德欲拒漢高祖，行周等不從，且奏其事。 When Gaozu of Han was about to march from Taiyuan, Congyi summoned Gao Xingzhou and Wu Xingde to resist him. They refused and memorialized the court.

漢高祖怒，車駕將至闕，從益與王妃俱賜死於私第，時年十七； Gaozu of Han was enraged. As the imperial carriage neared the capital, Congyi and his consort were both ordered to die in their private residence. He was seventeen;

〈（《五代史闕文》：漢高祖自太原起軍建號，至洛陽，會郭從義先入京師，受密旨殺王淑妃與許王從益。 (Lost Writings of the History of the Five Dynasties records that Gaozu of Han raised his army at Taiyuan and established his reign. Reaching Luoyang, he found Guo Congyi already in the capital with a secret order to kill Consort Wang Shufei and Prince Xu Congyi.

從璨為權臣所忌，從益為強敵所脅，俱不得其死，亦良可傷哉！ Congcan was destroyed by a powerful minister, Congyi was coerced by a strong enemy—neither died a natural death. How lamentable!

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 8Volume 8 Later Jin Annals 1: Gaozu · 2 passages

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乃上表論廢帝不當立，請立許王從益為明宗嗣。 He memorialized that Congke had usurped the throne and urged enthroning Prince of Xu Congyi as Mingzong’s heir.

癸未，封李從益為郇國公以奉唐後。 On guiwei Li Congyi was made Duke of Xun to keep the Tang succession alive.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 10Volume 10 Later Jin Annals 1: Gaozu, Emperor Yin · 2 passages

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蕭翰遁歸於契丹，以郇國公李從益知南朝軍國事。 Xiao Han fled to the Khitan and installed Li Congyi, Duke of Xun, to manage the Southern Court’s armies and administration.

六月丙辰，次河陽，殺李從益及其母於京師。 On bingchen of the sixth month the march stopped at Heyang while Li Congyi and his mother were executed in the capital.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 49Volume 49 Miscellaneous Biographies 29: Di Guangye, Feng Hui, Huang Fuhui, Tang Jingsi, Wang Jin, Chang Si, Sun Fangjian · 1 passage

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許王從益入汴，以為樞密使。 When Prince Xu Congyi entered Bian, he was made Privy Commissioner.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 53Volume 53 Miscellaneous Biographies 33: Wang Jinchong, Zhao Suwan, Murong Yanchao · 2 passages

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已而翰北歸，許王從益居京師，用景崇為宣徽使、監左藏庫。 Before long Han returned north. The Prince of Xu Congyi held the capital and made Jingchong palace commissioner and overseer of the Left Treasury.

高祖遣使者召思綰等，是時侯益來朝，思綰以兵從益東歸。 Gaozu sent envoys to summon Siwan and his men. Hou Yi was then on his way to court, and Siwan marched east with him.