Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · General and Aristocrat

Li Yuan 李遠

c. AD 507 - AD 557

Passages
16
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

Li Yuan was a general and Aristocrat.

IdentityHistorical · Male
Found inBook of Zhou

Other names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Posthumous name Huai 懷 Huai

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Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Career and standing

  • bearer of staff, pillar of state and grand general, chief commander 使持節、柱國大將軍、大都督
    Held · Negated false
    Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 327
  • fief of three thousand households 邑三千戶
    AD 581 隋開皇初 · Bestowed posthumously
    Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 333
  • posthumous confirmation of former office and added commander of military affairs for fifteen provinces including Shan and Xiong and governor of Shan Province 贈本官，加陝熊等十五州諸軍事、陝州刺史
    AD 572 建德元年 · Bestowed posthumously
    Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 331
  • posthumous name Zhong 諡曰忠
    AD 572 建德元年 · Bestowed posthumously
    Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 332
  • posthumous name changed to Huai 改諡曰懷
    AD 581 隋開皇初 · Changed posthumously
    Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 333
  • Upper Pillar of State and Duke of Li 上柱國、黎國公
    AD 581 隋開皇初 · Bestowed posthumously
    Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 333

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16 passages

Book of Zhou, Chapter 25Volume 25 Biographies 17: Li Xian; Brother Yuan · 16 passages
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建德元年，晉公護誅，乃詔曰：「故使持節、柱國大將軍、大都督、陽平郡開國公遠，早蒙驅任，夙著勳績，內參帷幄，外屬藩維。 In the first year of Jiande, when Duke of Jin Yuwen Hu was executed, an edict said: "The late bearer of staff, pillar of state and grand general, chief commander, and founding Duke of Yangping Li Yuan, early received missions of trust and long showed merit, inwardly advising in the inner councils and outwardly guarding the frontiers.