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Li Yansun 李延孫

Attested AD 534 - AD 570

Passages
17
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Yansun as an administrator, general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 17 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Li Yansun 李延孫 Li Yansun
Surname Li Li
Personal name Li Yansun 李延孫 Li Yansun
Given Yansun 延孫 Yansun

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • General
  • Military Officer
  • Official
  • Strategist

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

Family

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  • Descendant of Li Bofu (李伯扶)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Child of Li Changshou (李長壽)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Line: paternal
  • Parent of Li Renjie (李人傑)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Line: paternal
  • Sibling of Li Yisun (李義孫)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother

Career and standing

  • Label: Executive Commissioner of the Capital South / 京南行臺 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · zhoushu:043:s0031
  • Label: General of the Direct Gate / 直閤將軍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · zhoushu:043:s0022
  • Label: posthumous Minister of Works / 贈司空 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · zhoushu:043:s0036
  • Title: Duke of Huashan Commandery / 華山郡公 · Action: enfeoffed
    Explicit · zhoushu:043:s0032

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: endowed with courage and stratagem; entrusted with defense of frontier fortresses · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · zhoushu:043:s0196
  • Assessment: formidable warrior with commander gifts · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · zhoushu:043:s0020
  • Assessment: in repelling invasion stood equal to heroes of earlier ages; helped hold the Yi and Luo and Xiao and Han, blunting Qi designs and easing Zhou eastern concerns · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment

References in the histories

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Book of Zhou, Chapter 43Volume 43 Biographies 35: Li Yansun; Wei You; Han Xiong; Chen Xin; Wei Xuan · 17 passages
廣陵王欣、錄尚書長孫稚、潁川王斌之、安昌王子均及建甯、江夏、隴東諸王幷百官等攜持妻子來投延孫者,延孫卽率衆衛送,並贈以珍玩,咸達關中。 When Prince of Guangling Xin, Chief Clerk of the Records Office Changsun Zhi, Prince of Yingchuan Binzhi, Prince of Anchang Zijun, the princes of Jianning, Jiangxia, and Longdong, and many other officials fled east with their families to seek Yansun's protection, he led his men to escort them, gave them precious gifts, and saw them all safely through to Guanzhong.