Luo Shaowei (羅紹威)

Overview

The translated histories identify Luo Shaowei as an aristocrat, general, military officer, and named individual. This record brings together 18 passages from 9 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Luo Shaowei	羅紹威	Luo Shaowei
Personal name	Luo Shaowei	羅紹威	Luo Shaowei
Personal	Luo Shaowei	羅紹威	Luó Shàowēi
Title	Prince of Ye	鄴王
Title	Prince of Ye	鄴王	Ye Wang
Personal	Shao Wei	紹威
Given	Shaowei	紹威	Shaowei

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Sex: male
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Roles

Aristocrat
General
Military Officer
Named Individual
Official
Warlord

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平四年五月 · Western Year: AD 910
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 開平四年 · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 910
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Source Date: Text: Tianyou 2 · Western Year: AD 905
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Source Date: Text: 光化三年 · Western Year: AD 900
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Source Date: Text: 天祐三年正月十六日夜 · Western Year: AD 906
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Western Interval: Start: AD 888 · End: AD 910 · Source Date: Text: 羅紹威為節度副大使，頲以所業幹之，幕客公乘億為延譽，羅宏信署為府參軍，辟館驛巡官。
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Source Date: Text: 貞明元年 · Western Year: AD 915
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Source Date: Text: 開平 recommendation and visit · Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 909
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Source Date: Text: 開平三年十一月 · Western Year: AD 909
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Source Date: Text: 開平四年五月 · Western Year: AD 910
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Source Date: Text: 魏州節度使署巡官 · Western Interval: Start: AD 900 · End: AD 910
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:068:s0145

Family

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Kin of Luo Yin (羅隱)
Kinship Term: claimed nephew / 侄 · Relationship State: uncertain · Note: claimed kinship in source
Kinship Term: claimed uncle-nephew / 叔侄 · Relationship State: uncertain · Note: claimed kinship in source
Spouse of Liang princess married into Wei (梁女)
Kinship Term: married / 嫁 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife · Relationship State: ended
Kinship Term: married into Wei / 嫁魏 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband · Relationship State: ended

Career and standing

Label: concurrent director of the Secretariat / 兼中書令 · Action: held
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Label: regent Grand Preceptor / 守太師 · Action: held
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Label: Wei-Bo military commissioner / 魏博節度使 · Action: held
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Label: Weibo military governor / 魏博節度使 · Action: held
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Label: Minister of State (Director of State Affairs) / 尚書令 · Action: posthumously-granted
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Title: Prince of Ye / 鄴王 · Action: held
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Status: illness · Action: reported
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Works and attributed material

Work: Old History biography of Luo Shaowei / 薛史羅紹威傳 · Relation: subject-of
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: planner · Action: requested Liang troops to destroy Wei's garrison army · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天祐二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 905
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:023:s0145
Kind: patronage · Role: host · Action: welcomed-Luo-Yin-with-banners · Other Person Id: Luo Yin (羅隱)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0151
Relation: recommender-of · Person Id: Luo Yin (羅隱)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0120

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: loyal minister · Provenance: Mode: quoted-speech · Speaker Person Id: the Emperor (帝)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:005:s0128

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:054:s0060

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 5Volume 5 Book of Later Liang 5: Taizu Annals 5 · 2 passages

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己亥，以羅周韓為天雄軍節度副使，知府事，從鄴王紹威病請也。 On jihai Luo Zhouhan became vice military governor of Tianxiong and ran the prefecture at Shao Wei, Prince of Ye’s plea of illness.

魏博節度使、守太師、兼中書令、鄴王羅紹威薨，帝哀慟曰：「天不使我一海內，何奪忠臣之速也！」 Luo Shaowei, Prince of Ye, regent grand preceptor, director of the Secretariat, and military governor of Weibo, died; the Emperor grieved: "Heaven will not let me unite the realm—why take a loyal minister so soon!"

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 11Volume 11 Book of Later Liang 11: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage

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《薛史羅紹威傳》亦載開平四年，詔金華公主出家為尼。 The 《Old History》 biography of Luo Shaowei likewise records an edict in Kaiping 4 ordering Princess Jinhua to take the veil.

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 · 3 passages

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及羅紹威將殺牙軍，遣使告於太祖，求為外援。 When Luo Shaowei planned to destroy the guard corps, he asked the Founder for reinforcements.

天祐三年正月十六日夜，嗣勳與紹威親軍同攻牙軍，至曙，盡殪之。 On the night of the sixteenth of the first month of Tianyou 3, Sixun and Shaowei's own troops struck the guard corps and wiped them out by dawn.

羅紹威將殺牙軍，遣使告於太祖，太祖命彥卿使於魏，密與紹威謀之。 When Luo Shaowei moved against the guard corps he asked the Founder for help; the Founder sent Yanqing to Wei to conspire with him.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 24Volume 24 Book of Later Liang 24: Biographies 14: Li Ting, Lu Ceng, Sun Zhi, Zhang Jun, Zhang Yan, Du Xunhe, Luo Yin, Chou Yin, Duan Shen · 4 passages

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初，隱罷上中書之日，費窘，因抵魏謁鄴王羅紹威，將入其境，先貽書敘其家世，鄴王為侄。 Once, broke after failing the Secretariat exam, he went to Wei to see Luo Shaowei and beforehand sent a letter claiming kinship—the prince was his nephew.

紹威素重士，且曰：「羅隱名振天下，王公大夫多為所薄，今惠然肯顧，其何以勝！ Shaowei, who loved scholars, said: "Luo Yin's name fills the realm; lords and ministers he has often scorned—now he honors me—how can I not be overwhelmed!

及將行，紹威贈以百萬，他物稱是，仍致書於鏐謂叔父，鏐首用之。）〉 On his departure Shaowei gave him a million cash and rich gifts, and wrote Qian Liu as to an uncle—Liu took him up at once.)〉

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 54Volume 54 Book of Later Tang 30: Biographies 6: Wang Rong, Wang Zhaohui, Wang Chuzhi · 2 passages

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〈（《新唐書》：羅紹威諷鎔絕太原，共尊全忠，鎔依違，全忠不悅。）〉 (The 《New Book of Tang》: Luo Shaowei urged Rong to break with Taiyuan and jointly honor Quanzhong; Rong wavered, and Quanzhong was displeased.) 〉

其後梁祖常慮河朔悠久難製，會羅紹威卒，因欲除移鎮、定。 Thereafter the Founding Emperor of Liang constantly worried that the Hebei provinces would long resist control. When Luo Shaowei died, he sought to replace the governors of Zhen and Ding.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 1 passage

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魏州節度使羅紹威署巡官，罷歸京師，依開封尹劉鄩。 Luo Shaowei, military commissioner of Weizhou, appointed him touring officer. When that post ended he went to the capital and attached himself to Kaifeng prefect Liu Yan.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 71Volume 71 Book of Later Tang 47: Biographies 23: Ma Yu, Si Kongting, Cao Tingyin, Xiao Xifu, Yao Zongzhi, Jia Fu, Ma Gao, Luo Guan, Chun Yuyan, Zhang Ge, Xu Ji, Zhou Xuanbao · 1 passage

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羅紹威為節度副大使，頲以所業幹之，幕客公乘億為延譽，羅宏信署為府參軍，辟館驛巡官。 He sought patronage from Luo Shaowei, vice commissioner of the circuit; the staff member Gongcheng Yi vouched for him, and Luo Hongxin made him a staff adjutant and post-station inspector.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 23Volume 23 Later Liang Biographies 3: Yang Shihou, Wang Jingren, He Gui, Wang Tan, Ma Sixun, Wang Qianyu, Xie Yanzhang · 3 passages

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羅紹威時，牙兵盡死，魏勢孤，始為梁所制。 Under Luo Shaowei the garrison troops were destroyed; Wei stood alone and at last fell fully under Liang’s hand.

天祐二年，羅紹威將誅牙軍，乞兵於梁，梁女嫁魏，適死，太祖乃遣嗣勳以長直千人為綵輿入魏，致兵器於輿中，聲言助葬。 In the second year of Tianyou Luo Shaowei meant to destroy the garrison troops and begged Liang for troops. A Liang princess married into Wei had just died; Taizu sent Sixun with a thousand Long-Direct troops in a funeral escort into Wei, weapons hidden in the carriage, claiming they came to assist the burial.

嗣勳館銅臺，夜與魏新鄉鎮兵攻石柱門，入迎紹威家屬，衞之。 Sixun lodged at the Bronze Terrace. By night he and the Xin township garrison troops of Wei attacked Shizhu Gate, entered to receive Shaowei’s household, and guarded them.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 44Volume 44 Miscellaneous Biographies 24: Liu Zhijun, Ding Hui, He Delun, Yan Bao, Kang Yanxiao · 1 passage

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乃召羅紹威故吏司空颋曰：「為我作奏，若復依違，則渡河虜之耳！」 He called Luo Shaowei’s old clerk Sikong Ting: “Write my memorial—if they keep stalling, I will cross the river and make captives of them!”