Luo Yi 羅藝

Other names

Family

• Child of Luo Rong (榮)
  father 父
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 123
• Spouse of Lady Meng (孟)
  wife 妻
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 158
• Sibling of Luo Shou (壽)
  younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
  Sources vary in certainty · New Book of Tang 92, passages 144, 156

• Kinship Role children · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 154

Career and standing

• Tianjie Army commander 天節軍將
  AD 619 to AD 626 鎮涇州時突厥放橫 · Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 149
• Left Wing Guard Grand General 左翊衛大將軍
  Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 146
• Tiger Guard Lieutenant 虎賁郎將
  AD 605 to AD 618 大業中 · Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 125
• Commander Unequalled in Honor 開府儀同三司
  AD 626 太宗即位 · Promoted
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 150
• Governor of Youzhou 幽州總管
  Self styled
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 136
• King of Yan 燕王
  AD 619 武德二年 · Enfeoffed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 142

Places and affiliations

• Polity Sui 隋 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passages 123, 137
• Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passages 148, 150
• AD 619 武德二年
  Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Submitted to
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passages 141-142
• Polity Turks 突厥 · Relation Fled to
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 154
• At Xiangyang in Xiangzhou 襄州襄陽
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 122
• AD 626 to AD 627 太宗即位後藝反
  At Bin Prefecture 豳 · Relation Seized
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 152

Learning and skills

• Skill spear 槊 · Level master
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 124

Works and attributed material

• claimed a secret edict summoning him to court
  False announcement · Speaker · Mode quotation Speaker Luo Yi (羅藝)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passages 151-152
• Speech · Speaker · With Yuwen Huaji (宇文化及) · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 137
• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passages 130-131, 139-140

Events and relationships

• Defeated and fled
  AD 626 to AD 627 太宗即位後藝反 · Military · Defeated commander
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 154
• Defeated at xu river
  Military · Commander · With Liu Shishan (劉什善) · At Xu River 徐河
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 144
• Deposed and restyled jurisdiction
  Political · Usurper · With Yang Linfu (楊林甫)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 136
• Executed envoys and mourned yangdi
  Diplomatic · Refuser · With Yuwen Huaji (宇文化及)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passages 137-138
• Fought
  Military · Commander · With Dou Jiande (竇建德)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 143
• Humiliated attendants
  AD 618 to AD 626 高祖 · Political · Offender · With Emperor Taizong (太宗)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 147

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment swaggered over achievements and rarely humbled himself · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 147
• Assessment valor unmatched; other generals envied and feared him · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 129
• stubborn, harsh, proud, and willful
  Character
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passages 124, 127

Source notes

• Opened storehouses to reward soldiers and feed the poor after seizing Zhuo; Liucheng and Huaiyuan submitted
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passages 134-135
• AD 619 武德二年
  To imperial surname 賜姓 · Reason granted imperial surname and enrolled in clan register
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 92, passage 142