Li Huaizhong (李懷忠)

Overview

Li Huaizhong was a general and Official.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Guangxiao	光孝	Guangxiao

Life and dates

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Li Hai (李海)
father 父
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 132

Career and standing

military governor of Tong Prefecture 同州節度使
Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 139

Places and affiliations

At Jinyang in Taiyuan 太原晉陽
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 124, passage 131

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 124Volume 124 Book of Later Zhou 26: Biographies 4: Wang Yin, He Fejin, Liu Ci, Wang Jin, Shi Yanchao, Shi Yi, Wang Lingwen, Zhou Mi, Li Huaizong, Bai Wenke, Bai Yanyu, Tang Jinsi · 6 passages

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李懷忠，字光孝，太原晉陽人。 Li Huaizhong, whose courtesy name was Guangxiao, was a native of Jinyang in Taiyuan.

懷忠形質魁壯，初事唐莊宗，隸於保衛軍。 Huaizhong was tall and powerfully built. He first served Emperor Zhuangzong of Tang in the Baowei army.

夾城之役，懷忠率先登城，以功補本軍副兵馬使。 At the siege of Jiacheng he was first over the wall. For this he was made deputy horse-and-weapons commissioner of his army.

莊宗平定山東，累遷保衛軍使。 When Emperor Zhuangzong pacified Shandong, Huaizhong rose to commissioner of the Baowei army.

清泰初，以河西蕃部寇鈔，命懷忠屯方渠。 Early in the Qingtai period, when the tribes of Hexi were raiding the borders, Huaizhong was ordered to encamp at Fangqu.

晉祖受命，以懷忠故人，召典禁兵，三遷護聖左右廂都指揮使，遙領壽州節度使、檢校太保。 When the Jin founder took power he recalled Huaizhong, an old comrade, to command the palace guard. He was promoted three times to commander of the left and right wings of the Husheng army and held the posts of military governor of Shou Prefecture and acting Grand Guardian in absentia.