Sui and Tang · Military Officer and Royal Family Member

Li Kegong 李克恭

Died AD 890

Passages: 9
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Kegong as a military officer and royal family member. This record brings together 9 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Li Kegong	李克恭	Li Kegong
Alternate name	Ke Gong	克恭
Given	Kegong	克恭	Kegong
Personal name	Li Kegong	李克恭	Li Kegong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:050:s0058

Roles

Military Officer
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Death

Manner: killed · Killer Person Id: An Jushou (安居受) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五月十五日 · Western Year: AD 890
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:050:s0069

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 五月十五日 · Western Year: AD 890
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:050:s0069
Source Date: Text: 大順初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 890 · End: AD 891
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:050:s0060
Source Date: Text: 龍紀中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 889 · End: AD 889
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:050:s0059

Family

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Child of Li Guochang (李國昌)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Sibling of Li Keyong (李克用)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 諸弟 · Parentage: biological · Subject Relative Age: younger

Career and standing

Label: commissioner of the Decisive Victory Army / 決勝軍使 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 龍紀中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 889 · End: AD 889
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:050:s0059
Label: military commissioner of Zhaoyi / 昭義節度使 · Action: succeeded · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 大順初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 890 · End: AD 891
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:050:s0060

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: victim · Action: killed-in-mutiny · Other Person Id: An Jushou (安居受)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:050:s0069

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: arrogant, lawless, unversed in military administration · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:050:s0061

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 50Volume 50 Book of Later Tang 26: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 9 passages

克恭，武皇之諸弟也。 Ke Gong was one of Li Keyong's younger brothers.

大順初，潞帥李克修卒，克恭代為昭義節度使。 Early in the Dashun era, after the Lu commander Ke Xiu died, Ke Gong succeeded him as military commissioner of Zhaoyi.

潞人素便克修之簡正，惡克恭之恣縱，又以克修非罪暴卒，人士離心。 The people of Lu had long valued Ke Xiu's plain, upright rule and resented Ke Gong's excesses. Ke Xiu's sudden death, though he was innocent of wrongdoing, also alienated the gentry and commoners.

潞州有後院軍，兵之雄勁者，克恭選其五百人獻於武皇，軍使安居受惜其兵。 Lu maintained a Rear Court Army of its toughest troops. Ke Gong selected five hundred of them and sent them to Li Keyong. The army commissioner An Jushou resented losing his best men.

克恭令裨校李元審、安建、紀綱、馮霸部送太原，行次銅鞮縣，馮霸劫眾謀叛，殺都將劉杲、縣令戴勞謙，循山而南，比及沁水，有眾三千。 Ke Gong ordered the subordinate officers Li Yuanshen, An Jian, the escort officers, and Feng Ba to march the detachment to Taiyuan. At Tongdi county Feng Ba incited a mutiny, killed the commander Liu Gao and the magistrate Dai Laoqian, and led his men south along the mountains until, by the time they reached Qinshui, he had three thousand followers.

五月十五日，克恭視元審於孔目吏劉崇之第。 On the fifteenth day of the fifth month Ke Gong went to visit the wounded Yuanshen at the home of the clerical officer Liu Chong.

是日，州將安居受引兵仗攻克恭，因風縱火，克恭、元審並遇害，州民推居受為留後。 That same day the prefectural officer An Jushou led armed men against Ke Gong, set fires with the wind at his back, and killed both Ke Gong and Yuanshen. The people of the prefecture made Jushou acting commissioner.

初，孟方立之亂，居受以澤、潞歸於武皇，至是孟遷以邢、洺納降，復任為牙將，居受懼其圖己，乃叛，殺克恭以結汴人。 During Meng Fangli's rebellion Jushou had surrendered Ze and Lu to Li Keyong. Now Meng Qian surrendered Xing and Ming and was reappointed a garrison officer. Fearing that Meng Qian would move against him, Jushou rebelled, killed Ke Gong, and sought an alliance with the Liang.

〈（案《新唐書·宰相世係表》：嗣昭，國昌有子四人：克恭、克儉、克用、克柔。 (According to the 《New Book of Tang·Tables of Chancellor Lineages》: Sizhao—Guochang had four sons: Ke Gong, Ke Jian, Ke Yong, and Ke Rou.