Sui and Tang · Official

Li Yifu 李義府

Attested AD 650 - AD 683

Passages
5
Chapters
3
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Yifu as a courtier, official, and statesman. This record brings together 5 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Li Yifu 李義府 Li Yifu
Surname Li
Surname Li Li
Personal name Li Yifu 李義府 Lǐ Yìfǔ
Personal name Li Yifu 李義府 Li Yifu
Title Secretariat Director 中書令 Zhongshuling
Given Yifu 義府 Yìfǔ
Given Yifu 義府 Yifu

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Courtier
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: AD 650-655 · Western Interval: Start: AD 650 · End: AD 655
    Strongly inferred · xintangshu:113:s0030
  • Source Date: Text: 唐初 · Western Interval: Start: c. AD 650 · End: AD 658
    Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:020:s0003
  • Source Date: Text: 高宗朝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 650 · End: AD 683
    Strongly inferred · xintangshu:051:s0091

Career and standing

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

  • Kind: opinion · Role: speaker · Statement: 凶事非臣子所宜言 · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report

Events and relationships

  • Kind: political · Role: minister · Action: came-to-power
  • Kind: political · Role: advocate · Action: removed-national-mourning-chapter · Other Person Id: Xu Jingzong (許敬宗) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 唐初 · Western Interval: Start: c. AD 650 · End: AD 658

Source notes

References in the histories

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 20Volume 20 Treatises 10: Rites and Music 10 · 1 passage
New Book of Tang, Chapter 51Volume 51 Treatises 47: Finance and Economics 1 · 1 passage
New Book of Tang, Chapter 113Volume 113 Biographies 38: Tang, Zhang, Xu · 3 passages