Five Dynasties · Kaifeng Prefect and General

Liu Yan 劉鄩

Attested AD 915

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Yan was a Kaifeng Prefect and General.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 915 貞明元年
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 8, passages 98, 112, 127

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Liang 後梁 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 8, passage 96

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 8Volume 8 Book of Later Liang 8: Later Emperors Annals 1 · 4 passages

時朝廷以福王友璋鎮徐方，殷不受代，乃下詔削奪殷在身官爵，仍令卻還本姓蔣，便委友璋及天平軍節度使牛存節、開封尹劉鄩等進軍攻討。 The court had posted Prince of Fu Youzhang at Xuzhou; Yin refused replacement; an edict stripped his titles, restored the surname Jiang, and sent Youzhang, Niu Cunjie, Liu Yan, and others against him.

貞明元年春，牛存節、劉鄩拔徐州，逆賊將殷舉族自燔而死，於火中得其屍，梟首以獻。 In spring of Zhenming 1, Niu Cunjie and Liu Yan seized Xuzhou; Yin and his kin immolated themselves; his body was pulled from the flames and his head sent in.

即以平盧軍節度使賀德倫為天雄軍節度使，遣劉鄩率兵六萬屯河朔。 He Delun of Pinglu became Tianxiong commissioner; Liu Yan marched sixty thousand to camp in Hebei.

是時，朝廷既分魏博六州為兩鎮，命劉鄩統大軍屯於南樂，以討王熔為名，遣澶州刺史、行營先鋒步軍都指揮使王彥章領龍驤五百騎先入於魏州，屯於金波亭。 The court had split Weibo, sent Liu Yan to Nanle ostensibly against Wang Rong, and Wang Yanzhang with five hundred Dragon-Prancing horse into Weizhou to camp at Jinbo Pavilion.