Liu Rengong (劉仁恭)

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Rengong as a general, military officer, official, and rebel. This record brings together 21 passages from 13 chapters across 4 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Rengong	劉仁恭	Liu Rengong
Personal name	Liu Rengong	劉仁恭	Liu Rengong
Personal	Liu Rengong	劉仁恭
Personal name	Liu Rengong	劉仁恭	Liú Réngōng
Personal	Liu Rengong	劉仁恭	Liú Réngōng
Personal name	Liu Rengong	劉仁恭
Title	military governor	節度使
Given name	Rengong	仁恭	Rengong
Given	Rengong	仁恭	Rengong
Personal name	Rengong	仁恭	Rengong
Given		仁恭	Rengong

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiutangshu:181:s0174, jiuwudaishi:020:s0123, jiuwudaishi:065:s0084, liaoshi:074:s0044, liaoshi:076:s0108, xinwudaishi:038:s0116
Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:062:s0059, jiuwudaishi:072:s0094, jiuwudaishi:141:s0133, xinwudaishi:011:s0003

Roles

General
Military Officer
Official
Rebel
Warlord

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: AD 895-913 · Western Year: AD 895
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:065:s0084
Source Date: Text: 光化三年 · Western Year: AD 900
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0123
Source Date: Text: 光化中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 898 · End: AD 901
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:141:s0133
Source Date: Text: 光化二年春 · Western Year: AD 899
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:016:s0048
Source Date: Text: 劉仁恭 · Western Year: AD 899
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0166
Source Date: Text: 劉仁恭攻破順州 · Western Year: AD 910
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:011:s0003
Source Date: Text: 唐末梁初 · Western Year: AD 907
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:062:s0059
Source Date: Text: 天復中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 901 · End: AD 904
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:072:s0095, xinwudaishi:038:s0117
Source Date: Text: 威嗣世之明年正月 · Western Year: AD 899
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0174
Source Date: Text: 延徽少時 · Western Year: AD 900
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:074:s0044
Source Date: Text: 思溫少時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 913
Explicit · liaoshi:076:s0108
Source Date: Text: 昭宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 888 · End: AD 904
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:038:s0116
Source Date: Text: 討黑車子室韋時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 900 · End: AD 913
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:073:s0038

Family

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Parent of Zhao Ba (趙霸)
Kinship Term: adopted son / 養子 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: father · Object Role: adopted-son
Parent of Mother of Wang Sitong (王思同母)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter
Parent of Liu Shouwen (劉守文)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of Liu Shouguang (劉守光)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

Label: military commissioner / 節度使 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:072:s0094
Label: military governor / 節度使 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:038:s0116

Places and affiliations

Label: Tang / 唐 · Relation: served
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0174

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: attacker · Action: attacked-Wei · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 威嗣世之明年，正月 · Western Year: AD 899
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0166
Kind: military · Role: attacker · Action: attacked-Wei
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0174
Kind: military · Role: conqueror · Action: overran-commandery · Place: Fuyang / 浮陽
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:141:s0133
Kind: military · Role: attacker · Action: seized · Place: Shunzhou / 順州 · Other Person Id: Guo Jian (郭簡)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:011:s0003
Relation: commander-of · Person Id: Wang Deming (王德明)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:062:s0059
Relation: on-good-terms-with · Person Id: Zhang Juhan (張居翰)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:038:s0116

References in the histories

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 181Volume 177 Biographies 127: Cui Shenyou, Cui Gong, Lu Jun, Pei Xiu, Yang Shou, Wei Baoheng, Lu Yan, Xiao Houzi, Liu Zhan, Liu Zhuan, Cao Que, Bi Xian, Du Shenquan, Liu Ye, Dou Luzhan · 1 passage

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威嗣世之明年，正月，幽州劉仁恭擁兵十萬，謀亂河朔，進陷貝州，長驅攻魏。 In the first month of the second year of Wei's rule, Liu Rengong of Youzhou marched a hundred thousand men to stir trouble in Hebei, seized Bei, and drove straight at Wei.

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 185Volume 181 Biographies 131: Shi Xiancheng, Zi Xiaozhang, He Jintao, Han Yunzhong, Li Yanzhen, Luo Hongxin · 1 passage

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威嗣世之明年，正月，幽州劉仁恭擁兵十萬，謀亂河朔，進陷貝州，長驅攻魏。 In the first month of the year after Wei succeeded his father, Liu Rengong of Youzhou marched a hundred thousand men to stir trouble in Hebei, seized Bei prefecture, and drove straight at Wei.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 16Volume 16 Book of Later Liang 16: Biographies 6: Ge Congzhou, Xie Yanzhang, He Zhen, Zhang Guiba, Zhang Guihou, Zhang Guibian · 4 passages

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二年春，幽州劉仁恭率軍十萬寇魏州，屠貝郡。 Spring year 2 Liu Rengong ravaged Wei and slaughtered Bei.

翌日，破其八寨，追擊至臨清，劉仁恭走滄州，從周授宣義軍行軍司馬。 Next day he broke eight camps, pursued to Linqing, and Rengong fled to Cang.

及進攻浮陽，幽州劉仁恭大舉來援。 Besieging Fuyang he faced Liu Rengong's great relief army.

復與燕人戰於內黃，殺仁恭兵三萬餘眾。 At Neihuang he killed thirty thousand Yan troops.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 20Volume 20 Book of Later Liang 20: Biographies 10: Xie Tong, Si Maye, Liu Han, Wang Jinrao, Gao Shao, Ma Sixun, Zhang Cunjin, Kou Yanqing · 1 passage

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時幽州劉仁恭舉兵來援，存敬潛軍擊之於乾寧軍南老鴉堤。 When Liu Rengong of Youzhou marched to relieve the city, Cunjin ambushed him at Old Crow Embankment south of Qianning.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 62Volume 62 Book of Later Tang 38: Biographies 14: Meng Fangli, Zhang Wenli, Dong Zhang · 1 passage

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初為劉仁恭裨將，性凶險，多奸謀，辭氣庸下，與人交言，癖於不遜，自少及長，專蓄異謀。 He began as a staff officer under Liu Rengong, a man fierce and treacherous, coarse in speech and habitually insolent in conversation; from youth he had nursed one conspiracy after another.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 65Volume 65 Book of Later Tang 41: Biographies 17: Li Jianji, Shi Junli, Gao Xinggui, Zhang Tingyu, Wang Sitong, Suo Zitong · 2 passages

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思同母即劉仁恭之女也，故思同初事仁恭為帳下軍校。 Sitong's mother was a daughter of Liu Rengong, so he first served Rengong as an officer in his personal guard.

會劉守光攻仁恭於大安山，思同以部下兵歸太原，時年十六，武皇命為飛騰指揮使。 When Liu Shouguang besieged Rengong at Mount Da'an, Sitong brought his men over to Taiyuan. He was sixteen; the Martial Emperor made him commander of the Feiteng guard.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 72Volume 72 Book of Later Tang 48: Biographies 24: Zhang Chengye, Zhang Juhan, Ma Shaohong, Meng Hangqiong · 3 passages

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昭宗在華下，超授內常侍，出監幽州軍事，秩滿詔歸，節度使劉仁恭表留之。 While Emperor Zhaozong was at Hua, Juhan was promoted out of turn to palace attendant and sent to supervise military affairs at Youzhou. When his term expired an edict ordered his return, but military commissioner Liu Rengong memorialized to retain him.

天復中，詔誅宦官，仁恭紿奏殺之，匿於大安山之北溪。 During the Tianfu era, an edict ordered the execution of eunuchs. Rengong falsely reported that he had killed Juhan and hid him in a northern stream valley of Mount Da'an.

天祐三年，汴人攻滄州，仁恭求援於武皇，乃遣居翰與書記馬鬱等率兵助武皇同攻潞州，武皇因留之不遣。 In the third year of Tianyou, when the Bian army attacked Cangzhou, Rengong sought aid from Emperor Wu and sent Juhan with secretary Ma Yu and others to lead troops to help Emperor Wu jointly attack Luzhou. Emperor Wu then retained Juhan and would not send him back.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 141Volume 141: Treatises 3 Five Elements · 1 passage

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至光化中，其郡果為燕帥劉仁恭所陷。」 By the Guanghua era that commandery was indeed overrun by the Yan commander Liu Rengong."

History of Liao, Chapter 73Volume 73 Biographies 3: Yelu Helu, Xiao Dilu, Yelu Xieniechi, Yelu Yuwen, Yelu Haili · 1 passage

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太祖討黑車子室韋，幽州劉仁恭遣養子趙霸率眾來救。 Taizu campaigned against the Black Cart Shiwei. Liu Rengong of Youzhou sent his adopted son Zhao Ba with an army to relieve them.

History of Liao, Chapter 74Volume 74 Biographies 4: Yelu Dila, Xiao Hendu, Kang Moji, Han Yanhui, Han Zhigu · 1 passage

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延徽少英，燕帥劉仁恭奇之，召為幽都府文學、平州錄事參軍，同馮道祗候院，授幽州觀察度支使。 A gifted youth, Yanhui caught the eye of the Yan commander Liu Rengong, who made him literary instructor at the Youdu prefectural office and recorder-assistant of Pingzhou, assigned with Feng Dao to the reception bureau, then Youzhou observation revenue commissioner.

History of Liao, Chapter 76Volume 76 Biographies 6: Yelu Jieli, Yelu Balide, Yelu Shuogu, Yelu Lubugu, Zhao Yanshou, Gao Mohan, Zhao Siwen, Yelu Oulisi, Zhang Li · 1 passage

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少果銳，膂力兼人，隸燕帥劉仁恭幕。 As a youth he was bold and keen, possessed the strength of several men, and served on the staff of the Yan commander Liu Rengong.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 11Volume 11 Later Zhou Annals 2: Taizu · 1 passage

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劉仁恭攻破順州，簡見殺，子威少孤，依潞州人常氏。 When Liu Rengong seized Shunzhou, Jian was killed. Wei was still a boy and, orphaned, was taken in by the Chang family of Luzhou.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 38Volume 38 Biographies 18: Zhang Chengye, Zhang Juhan · 3 passages

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昭宗時，為范陽軍監軍，與節度使劉仁恭相善。 Under Zhaozong he served as army supervisor at Fanyang and was on good terms with the military governor Liu Rengong.

天復中，大誅宦者，仁恭匿居翰大安山之北谿以免。 During the Tianfu purge of eunuchs, Rengong hid Juhan in a valley north of Mount Da'an to save his life.

其後，梁兵攻仁恭，仁恭遣居翰從晉王攻梁潞州以牽其兵，晉遂取潞州，以居翰為昭義監軍。 Later, when Liang attacked Rengong, Rengong sent Juhan with the Prince of Jin against Liang's Luzhou to draw off Liang's army; Jin took Luzhou and appointed Juhan Zhaoyi army supervisor.