Li Keyong (李克用) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Keyong as a general, ruler, and warlord. This record brings together 3 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 Keyong	李克用	Li Keyong
Personal name	Li Keyong	李克用	Li Keyong
Title	Martial Emperor	武皇	Wu Huang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:054:s0016

Roles

General
Ruler
Warlord

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 大順中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 890 · End: AD 891
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:054:s0013

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:054:s0016

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 54Volume 54 Book of Later Tang 30: Biographies 6: Wang Rong, Wang Zhaohui, Wang Chuzhi · 3 passages

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大順中，武皇將李存孝既平邢、洺，因獻謀於武皇，欲兼並鎮、定，乃連年出師以擾鎮之屬邑。 During the Dashun era the Martial Emperor's general Li Cunxiao, having pacified Xing and Ming, proposed to the Martial Emperor that Zhen and Ding be seized together, and for years thereafter led campaigns harassing the counties under Zhen.

〈（《舊唐書》云：時天子蒙塵，九州鼎沸，河東節度使李克用虎視山東，方謀吞據。 (The 《Old Book of Tang》 states: At that time the emperor was in exile and the realm seethed; Li Keyong, military governor of Hedong, eyed Shandong like a tiger and was plotting to seize it.

鎔既失燕軍之援，會武皇出師以逼真定，鎔遣使謝罪，出絹二十萬匹，及具牛酒犒軍，自是與鎔俱修好如初。 Having lost Yan military support, Rong found the Martial Emperor marching toward Zhending. He sent envoys to apologize, offered two hundred thousand bolts of silk, and supplied cattle and wine to reward the army; from then on he and the Jin were reconciled as before.