Song, Liao, and Jin · Official

Ma Renwang 馬人望

Mǎ Rénwàng

Attested AD 1055 - AD 1113

Passages
27
Chapters
4
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Ma Renwang as an administrator, official, royal family member, and ruler. This record brings together 27 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Ma Renwang 馬人望 Mǎ Rénwàng
Personal Bei Bèi
Title expenditure commissioner 度支使
Title Left Regular Attendant 左散騎常侍
Posthumous Literary Offering 文獻 Wenxian
Surname Ma
Personal name Ma Renwang 馬人望
Personal name Ma Renwang 馬人望 Mǎ Rénwàng
Personal Ma Renwang 馬人望 Ma Renwang
Posthumous Wenxian 文獻 Wénxiàn
Title Wenxian Emperor who Ceded the State 讓國文獻皇帝
Courtesy Yanshu 儼叔 Yanshu
Given 人望 Renwang
Surname Ma

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Official
  • Royal Family Member
  • Ruler
  • Scholar
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 咸雍中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1065 · End: AD 1074
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0079
  • Source Date: Text: 天慶三年十二月 · Western Year: AD 1113
    Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0211
  • Source Date: Text: 天祚嗣位 · Western Year: AD 1101
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0095
  • Source Date: Text: 道宗初年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1055 · End: AD 1101
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:059:s0056, liaoshi:059:s0052
  • Source Date: Text: 遼皇族表 · Western Interval: Start: AD 916 · End: AD 1125
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:066:s0356

Family

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  • Descendant of Ma Yuan (淵)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Descendant of Ma Tingxu (廷煦)
    Kinship Term: great-grandfather / 曾祖 · Generation Distance: 3 · Line: paternal
  • Descendant of Ma Yinqing (胤卿)
    Kinship Term: great-great-grandfather / 高祖 · Generation Distance: 4 · Line: paternal
  • Descendant of Liao Taizu (遼太祖)
    Kinship Term: descended from / 係出 · Line: paternal
  • Child of Ma Quan (詮)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Child of Liao Taizu (遼太祖)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Parent of Daoyin (道隱)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Parent of Longxian (隆先)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: Administrator of Xincheng County in Zhuozhou / 知涿州新城縣 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0084
  • Label: Associate Participant in Governance / 參知政事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0111
  • Label: Chief Privy Council Assessor / 樞密都承旨 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0101
  • Label: Commissioner for the Palaces of the Southern Capital / 南京諸宮提轄制置 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0102
  • Label: Director of the Southern Capital Three Departments / 判南京三司使事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0111
  • Label: expenditure commissioner at the Central Capital / 中京度支使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0056
  • Label: Left Regular Attendant of the Cavalry / 左散騎常侍 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0110
  • Label: Magistrate of Songshan County / 松山縣令 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0079
  • Label: Military Commissioner of Baojing Army / 保靜軍節度使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0103
  • Label: Police Patrol Commissioner / 警巡使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0089
  • Label: Privy Council Academician / 樞密直學士 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0110
  • Label: Revenue Assessor of the Southern Capital Three Departments / 南京三司度支判官 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0088
  • Label: Revenue Commissioner of the Central Capital / 中京度支使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0108
  • Label: Salt and Iron Assessor of the Central Capital Revenue Bureau / 中京度支司鹽鐵判官 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0087
  • Label: Southern Court Commissioner of the Palace Secretariat / 南院宣徽使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0115
  • Label: Southern Court Privy Councillor / 南院樞密使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0118
  • Label: Vice Guardian of the Upper Capital / 上京副留守 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0097
  • Label: Military Commissioner of Zhangyi Army / 彰義軍節度使 · Action: granted-in-absentia
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0107
  • Label: Concurrent Palace Attendant / 兼侍中 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0123
  • Label: Guardian Minister of Education / 守司徒 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0123
  • Label: judge of the expenditure bureau at Nanjing / 南京度支判官 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0056
  • Label: Left Regular Attendant / 左散騎常侍 · Action: promoted
    Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0057
  • Title: Literary Offering / 文獻 · Action: posthumous
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0124
  • Title: Emperor who Ceded the State / 讓國皇帝 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:066:s0356
  • Status: orphaned · Action: entered
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0078
  • Status: retired · Action: entered
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0123
  • Label: imprisonment / 系 · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Xiao Tuhun (蕭吐渾)
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0081

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸雍中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1065 · End: AD 1074
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0079

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: applied-law-with-fairness-and-forbearance · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:059:s0056
  • Assessment: integrity-and-restraint · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  • Assessment: outstanding-capable-official · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0173
  • Kind: physical-injury · Statement: right arm struck by arrow
    Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0099

Source notes

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 27Volume 27 Annals 27: Emperor Tianzuo 1 · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 59Volume 59 Treatises 29: Finance and Economics 1 · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 66Volume 66 Tables 4: Imperial Family · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 105Volume 105 Biographies 35: Capable Officials · 24 passages