Sui and Tang · Official

Li Dewu 李德武

First attested AD 605; died AD 627

Passages: 8
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Li Dewu was an official.

Life and dates

Death

AD 627 to AD 649 貞觀中
At Lucheng 鹿城
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 28

Attested activity

AD 605 to AD 618 煬帝
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 8, 10-11
AD 627 to AD 649 貞觀中
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 28

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Kin of Jin Cai (金才)
paternal uncle 從父 · paternal line
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 10
Spouse of Pei Shuying (裴淑英)
wife 妻
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 8, 10
Spouse of Erzhu (爾硃氏)
wife 妻 · Ended
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 26

Kinship Role sisters · Quantity unspecified
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 19

Career and standing

Magistrate of Lucheng 鹿城令
Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 28
Entered
Exile
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 10
divorce 離婚
Ordered · Authority Emperor Yang (煬帝)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 11
amnesty 赦
Received
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 26

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 28
At Lingnan 嶺表 · Relation Exiled to
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 10
At Xiangzhou 襄州 · Relation Traveled to
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 26

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Pei Shuying (裴淑英)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 12-13

Events and relationships

Dismissed later wife and reunited with Pei
Personal · Actor · With Pei Shuying (裴淑英)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 26
Divorced by imperial order
Political · Subject · With Pei Shuying (裴淑英)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 11

References in the histories

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History

8 passages

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 203Volume 193 Biographies 143: Exemplary Women · 8 passages

李德武妻裴氏，字淑英，戶部尚書、安邑公矩之女也。 Li Dewu's wife, Lady Pei, whose courtesy name was Shuying, was the daughter of Pei Ju, Minister of Revenue and Duke of Anyi.

適德武，經一年而德武坐從父金才事徙嶺表。 After she married Dewu, within a year he was implicated in his paternal uncle Jin Cai's crime and banished to the far south.

矩時為黃門侍郎，奏請德武離婚，煬帝許之。 At that time Ju was Vice Director of the Palace Secretariat; he petitioned that Dewu divorce her, and Emperor Yang granted the request.

德武將與裴別，謂曰：「燕婉始爾，便事分離，方遠投瘴癘，恐無還理。 When Dewu was about to leave Pei, he said, "We have only just begun our life together, yet we must part; I am being sent to the pestilent south, and I fear I shall never return.

裴與德武別後，容貌毀悴，常讀佛經，不禦膏澤。 After parting from Dewu, Pei's appearance grew gaunt and careworn; she read Buddhist sutras constantly and wore no cosmetics.

後十餘年間，與德武音信斷絕。 For more than ten years thereafter, all word from Dewu ceased entirely.

德武已於嶺表娶爾硃氏為妻，及遇赦得還，至襄州，聞裴守節，乃出其後妻，重與裴合。 Dewu had meanwhile taken a woman named Erzhu as his wife in the south; when he was pardoned and returned, he reached Xiangzhou, learned that Pei had kept her vows, dismissed his second wife, and reunited with Pei.

貞觀中，德武終於鹿城令，裴歲余亦卒。 During the Zhenguan reign, Dewu died while serving as magistrate of Lucheng; Pei followed him in death a little over a year later.