Li Kerang (李克讓) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Kerang as a general and royal family member. This record brings together 11 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 Kerang	李克讓	Li Kerang
Given	Kerang	克讓	Kerang
Personal name	Li Kerang	李克讓	Li Kerang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:050:s0001

Roles

General
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Death

Manner: killed · Place: South Mountain Buddhist temple / 南山佛寺 · Cause: killed by mountain monks · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 黃巢犯闕 · Western Interval: Start: AD 880 · End: AD 881
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾符中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 874 · End: AD 879
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:050:s0004
Source Date: Text: 咸通中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 860 · End: AD 874
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Source Date: Text: 黃巢犯闕 · Western Interval: Start: AD 880 · End: AD 881
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Family

Sibling of Li Keyong (李克用)
Kinship Term: second younger brother / 仲弟 · Parentage: biological · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: uncertain

Career and standing

Label: general of the Golden Guard / 金吾將軍 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 乾符中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 874 · End: AD 879
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Label: metropolitan commandant of Zhenwu / 振武都校 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 咸通中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 860 · End: AD 874
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Tang / 唐 · Relation: served
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Place: Qinren Ward / 親仁坊 · Relation: resided-at
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: fugitive · Action: broke-encirclement · Place: Qinren Ward / 親仁坊
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned-against · Other Person Id: Pang Xun (龐勳) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸通中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 860 · End: AD 874
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated-by · Other Person Id: Huang Chao (黃巢) · Place: Tong Pass / 潼關
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: from Kerang down, imperial kin failed to receive proper enfeoffment and died violently · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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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 · 11 passages

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克讓，武皇之仲弟也。 Ke Rang was Li Keyong's second younger brother.

乾符中，王仙芝陷荊、襄，朝廷征兵，克讓率師奉詔，賊平，以功授金吾將軍，留宿衛。 In the Qianfu era, after Wang Xianzhi overran Jing and Xiang, the court mobilized troops. Ke Rang led his forces as ordered, and when the rebels were crushed he was made general of the Golden Guard and kept on palace guard duty.

武皇之起雲中，殺段文楚，朝議罪之，命加兵於我，懼，將逃歸，天子詔巡使王處存夜圍親仁坊捕克讓。 When Li Keyong rose in Yunzhong and killed Duan Wenchu, the court condemned him and ordered troops sent against the clan. Fearing arrest, he prepared to flee north, and the emperor ordered the commissioner Wang Chucun to surround Qinren Ward by night and capture Ke Rang.

詰旦兵合，克讓與紀綱何相溫、安文寬、石的曆十餘騎彎弧躍馬，突圍而出。 At daybreak the encircling force closed in. Ke Rang, with his officers He Xiangwen, An Wenkuan, Shi Deli, and a dozen horsemen, strung their bows, spurred their mounts, and charged out of the trap.

克讓自夏陽掠船而濟，歸於雁門。 Ke Rang commandeered boats at Xiayang, crossed the river, and made his way back to Yanmen.

明年，武皇昭雪，克讓復入宿衛。 The following year, after Li Keyong was cleared of the charges against him, Ke Rang returned to palace guard service.

黃巢犯闕，僖宗幸蜀，克讓時守潼關，為賊所敗，以部下六七騎伏於南山佛寺，夜為山僧所害。 When Huang Chao stormed the capital and Emperor Xizong fled to Shu, Ke Rang was holding Tong Pass. Routed by the rebels, he took refuge with only six or seven riders in a temple on South Mountain, where mountain monks killed him that night.

克讓既死，紀綱渾進通冒刃獲免，歸於黃巢。 After Ke Rang's death, his officer Hun Jintong fought through the blades and survived, then went over to Huang Chao's side.

黃巢遣使米重威齎賂修好，因送渾進通至，兼擒送害克讓僧十人。 Huang Chao sent Mi Chongwei with gifts to sue for peace, returned Hun Jintong with the embassy, and also delivered up the ten monks who had murdered Ke Rang.

武皇燔偽詔，還其使，盡誅諸僧，為克讓發哀行服，悲慟久之。 Li Keyong burned Huang Chao's forged edict, sent the envoy away, had all the monks executed, and for Ke Rang observed mourning and wore funeral dress, grieving for a long while.

自克讓而下，不獲就魯、衛之封，懋間、平之德也。 From Ke Rang downward, none received fiefs like the states of Lu and Wei, nor did they cultivate the virtue of the Princes of Hejian and Dongping.