Luo Wei (羅威) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Luo Wei as an administrator, family member, official, and poet. This record brings together 34 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Luo Wei	羅威	Luo Wei
Title	Chief Minister of the Secretariat	中書令	Zhongshu Ling
Courtesy name	Duanji	端己	Duanji
Courtesy	Duanji	端己
Title	Guardian Grand Preceptor	守太師	Shou Taishi
Surname	Luo	羅
Surname	Luo	羅	Luo
Personal	Luo Wei	羅威
Personal name	Luo Wei	羅威	Luo Wei
Title	Prince of Changsha	長沙王
Title	Prince of Ye	鄴王
Personal name	Wei	威	Wei
Given	Wei	威	Wei
Posthumous name	Zhenzhuang	貞壯
Posthumous	Zhenzhuang	貞壯	Zhenzhuang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiutangshu:181:s0161, jiutangshu:185:s0002
Sex: male
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0175

Roles

Administrator
Family Member
Official
Poet
Warlord
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Age: Value: 34 · Reckoning: sui · Place: Liang service / 仕梁
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0198
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 仕梁數年後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 915
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0190

Age

Age: 34 · As Of: death
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0190
Value: 34 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0198

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天祐二年七月十三日夜 · Regnal Year: 2 · Month: 7 · Day: 13 · Western Year: AD 905
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0175
Source Date: Text: 是月十四日夜 · Regnal Year: 3 · Month: 1 · Day: 14 · Western Year: AD 906
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0185
Source Date: Text: 天祐三年正月五日 · Regnal Year: 3 · Month: 1 · Day: 5 · Western Year: AD 906
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0181
Source Date: Text: 仕梁數年後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 915
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0190
Source Date: Text: 光化元年 · Western Year: AD 898
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0164
Source Date: Text: 天祐三年正月 · Western Year: AD 906
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0189
Source Date: Text: 天祐二年七月十三日夜 · Western Year: AD 905
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0183
Source Date: Text: 威嗣世之明年正月 · Western Year: AD 899
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0166
Source Date: Text: 文德初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 888 · End: AD 888
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0162

Family

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Parent of Luo Tinggui (羅廷規)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: child
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Luo Hongxin (羅弘信)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: child
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological
Kin of Luo Yin (羅隱)
Kinship Term: paternal uncle / 叔父 · Parentage: claimed · Subject Role: nephew · Object Role: paternal-uncle · Line: paternal

Origins and identity

Label: shared Luo clan surname with Luo Yin / 宗姓
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0195

Career and standing

Label: deputy military governor of the Tianxiong Army / 天雄軍節度副使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0154
Label: Chief Minister of the Secretariat / 中書令 · Action: held-concurrently
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0190
Label: Guardian Grand Preceptor / 守太師 · Action: held
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0190
Label: Military governor of Weibo / 魏博節度使 · Action: inherited
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0164
Label: Director of the Department of State Affairs / 尚書令 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0190
Label: Zhenzhuang / 貞壯 · Action: posthumous-title
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0190
Label: Director of the Secretariat / 尚書令 · Action: posthumous
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0198
Title: Prince of Ye / 鄴王 · Action: advanced
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0166
Title: King of Ye / 鄴王 · Action: enfeoffed
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0158
Title: Prince of Changsha / 長沙王 · Action: held
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0165

Places and affiliations

Label: Later Liang / 梁 · Relation: served
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0198
Label: Tang / 唐 · Relation: served
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0164
Polity: Liang / 梁 · Relation: served
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0190
Polity: Tang / 唐 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · jiutangshu:185:s0002

Learning and skills

Belief: Confucian learning / 儒術 · Relation: adherent-of
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0192
Skill: poetry composition / 賦詠 · Level: practiced
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0193

Works and attributed material

Work: Collected Poems Pilfered from the Eastern River / 偷江東集 · Relation: author
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0197
Kind: other · Role: subject · Statement: historian eulogizes five houses including Luo; Wei counted among good successors of Luo house
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0201, jiutangshu:185:s0203, jiutangshu:185:s0204, jiutangshu:185:s0205, jiutangshu:185:s0206, jiutangshu:185:s0207

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: attacked-Cangzhou · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 901
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0173
Kind: military · Role: target · Action: barely-escaped · Other Person Id: Li Gongquan (李公佺) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天祐二年七月十三日夜 · Western Year: AD 905
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0175
Kind: massacre · Role: director · Action: destroyed-yajiun
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0193, jiutangshu:181:s0194, jiutangshu:181:s0195
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: joint-attack-on-yamen-guard · Other Person Id: Ma Cixun (馬嗣勳) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 是月十四日夜 · Western Year: AD 906
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0185, jiutangshu:185:s0186, jiutangshu:185:s0187
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: massacre-of-yamen-guard-and-clans · Place: yamen city / 牙城
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0186, jiutangshu:185:s0187
Kind: political · Role: conspirator · Action: plotted-to-destroy-yamen-guard · Other Person Id: Quanzhong (全忠)
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0177, jiutangshu:185:s0182
Kind: scholarly · Role: patron · Action: recruited-literary-men
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0192
Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: resisted · Other Person Id: Liu Rengong (劉仁恭)
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0174
Kind: diplomatic · Role: actor · Action: sent-gifts · Other Person Id: Luo Yin (羅隱)
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0195
Kind: military · Role: defender · Other Person Id: Liu Rengong (劉仁恭) · Action: sought-aid · Date Context: Source Date: Text: AD 899 · Western Year: AD 899
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0166, jiutangshu:185:s0167
Kind: diplomatic · Role: actor · Action: sought-aid · Other Person Id: Quanzhong (全忠)
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0177
Relation: ally-of · Person Id: Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠)
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0174
Relation: son-in-law-line-to · Person Id: Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠)
Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0187
Relation: allied-with · Person Id: Quanzhong (全忠)
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0177, jiutangshu:185:s0179

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: among those who succeeded well in governing (Luo house son) · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0203
Assessment: intelligent and quick-witted; skilled in administration · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0191
Assessment: intensely loved Luo Yin's writings · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0197
Item: library of ten thousand scrolls / 書至萬卷 · Relation: possessed
Explicit · jiutangshu:185:s0192

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 · 16 passages

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子威。 His son was Wei.

弘信子威威，字端己。 Hongxin's son Wei, styled Duanji.

弘信卒，襲父位爲留後，朝廷從而命之。 When Hongxin died, Wei succeeded as acting governor, and the court confirmed the appointment.

天復末，累加至檢校太傅、兼侍中、長沙王。 By the end of Tianfu he had risen to Acting Grand Tutor, Concurrent Palace Attendant, and Prince of Changsha.

天祐初，授檢校太尉、守侍中，進封鄴王，賜號「忠勤宣力致理功臣」。 Early in Tianyou he was made Acting Grand Preceptor and Defender Palace Attendant, advanced to Prince of Ye, and granted the title "Meritorious Minister of Loyal Diligence in Ordering the Realm."

威懲其往弊，雖以貨賂姑息，而心銜之。 Wei meant to break their old abuses; though he bought them off with gifts, he nursed hatred in his heart.

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.

威求援於汴。 Wei appealed to Bian for help.

三年，威引汴軍攻滄州以報之。 In the third year Wei led Bian's army against Cangzhou in reprisal.

自是，威感全忠援助之恩，合從景附。 From then on Wei, grateful for Quanzhong's aid, clung to him in alliance.

天祐二年七月十三日夜，牙軍裨校李公佺作亂，威僅以身免。 On the night of the thirteenth day of the seventh month in the second year of Tianyou, the yajiun officer Li Gongquan rebelled, and Wei barely escaped with his life.