Li Quanzhong (李全忠)

Overview

Li Quanzhong was a Military Governor of Youzhou.

Life and dates

Death

died 卒
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 194

Attested activity

AD 884 to AD 885 中和末
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 180, passages 173-174, 180
AD 885 光啟元年春
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passages 193-194
AD 880 to AD 881 廣明中
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passages 183-185

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Li Kuangwei (李匡威)
father 父
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 194

Career and standing

defender of Dizhou 棣州司馬
Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 183
acting administrator 留後
Installed as
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 193
guard officer 牙將
Served as
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 189
seals and credentials 節鉞
Bestowed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 193

Places and affiliations

At Fanyang 范陽
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 182
At home district 鄉里 · Relation Returned to
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 189

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Zhang Jian (張建)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 185

Events and relationships

Attacked Yizhou
Military · Commander · With Li Keju (李可舉)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passages 173, 190
Counterattacked Youzhou
Military · Rebel · With Li Keju (李可舉)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passages 180, 191
Defeated at Yi River
Military · Commander · At Yi River 易水
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 190
Took Yizhou by tunnel
Military · Besieger
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passages 175-176
Troubled by reed omen
Omen · Witness
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 184
Relation Addressee of prediction by · Person Zhang Jian (張建)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passages 186-188

Source notes

Zhang Jian predicted three successive holders of seals and credentials from the three-joint reed omen
Mode named-person-prediction Source Person Id Zhang Jian (張建)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 187

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 180Volume 176 Biographies 126: Li Zongmin, Yang Sifu, Yang Yuqing, Ma Zhi, Li Rangyi, Weipi, Zhou Chi, Cui Guicong, Zhengsu, Lu Shang · 8 passages

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時可舉遣將李全忠攻易州。 Keju then sent the general Li Quanzhong to attack Yizhou.

全忠遁歸，懼可舉罪之，收其餘眾，反攻幽州。 Quanzhong fled home, fearing Keju would punish him for the defeat. He gathered his remaining troops and turned against Youzhou.

李全忠，范陽人。 Li Quanzhong was a native of Fanyang.

全忠秩滿還鄉里，事節度使李可舉為牙將。 When his term expired Quanzhong returned home and served the military governor Li Keju as a guard officer.

時可舉兵鋒方盛，欲與鎮人分易、定，遣全忠將兵攻之，為定州軍大敗於易水。 At that time Keju's armies were at their peak. Seeking to divide Yizhou and Dingzhou with the forces of Zhenzhou, he sent Quanzhong to attack them, but the Dingzhou army routed his forces at the Yi River.

全忠懼，率其餘眾掩攻幽州。 Quanzhong, fearing punishment, turned his remaining troops against Youzhou.

三軍推全忠為留後，朝廷因以節鉞授之，光啟元年春也。 The three armies installed Quanzhong as acting administrator, and the court invested him with the commission in the spring of the first year of Guangqi.

全忠卒，子匡威自襲父位，稱留後。 When Quanzhong died, his son Kuangwei seized his father's position and styled himself acting administrator.