Sui and Tang · Mother of Helou Zigan and Helou Quan

Mother of Helou Zigan 賀婁子幹之母

Attested AD 588 - AD 594

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Mother of Helou Zigan was a Mother of Helou Zigan and Helou Quan.

IdentityHistorical · Female · Anonymous individuated
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Book of Sui, Chapter 53Volume 53 Biographies 18: Daxi Zhangru, Helou Zigan, Shi Wansui, Liu Fang · 1 passage
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高祖以子幹曉習邊事，授榆關總管十鎮諸軍事．歲餘，拜雲州刺史，甚為虜所憚．後數年，突厥雍虞閭遣使請降，並獻羊馬．詔以子幹為行軍總管，出西北道應接之．還拜雲州總管，以突厥所獻馬百匹、羊千口以賜之，乃下書曰：「自公守北門，風塵不警．突厥所獻，還以賜公．」母憂去職．朝廷以榆關重鎮，非子幹不可，尋起視事．十四年，以病卒官，時年六十．高祖傷惜者久之，賻縑千匹，米麥千斛，贈懷、魏等四州刺史，諡曰懷．子善柱嗣，官至黔安太守． Because Zigan knew the frontier well, Gaozu made him commander of Yuguan with military authority over ten garrisons. A year later he became governor of Yunzhou and was greatly feared by the barbarians. Some years later Yongyulü of the Turks sent envoys to surrender and presented sheep and horses. Zigan was made commander on campaign to go out by the northwest route to receive them. On his return he was commander of Yunzhou; the hundred horses and thousand sheep the Turks had presented were given to him, with an imperial letter: “Since you have guarded the northern gate, the frontier has been quiet. What the Turks presented We return to you.” He left office when his mother died, but the court held that Yuguan could not do without him and soon recalled him. In the fourteenth year he died in office of illness at sixty. Gaozu mourned him long, granted a thousand bolts of silk and a thousand hu of grain and millet, posthumously made him governor of Huai, Wei, and two other prefectures, and gave him the posthumous name Huai. His son Shanzhu succeeded him and rose to administrator of Qian’an.