Sui and Tang · Chief Minister

Pei Du 裴度

Attested AD 815 - AD 826

Passages: 17
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Pei Du as a general, official, and statesman. This record brings together 17 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	Pei Du	裴度	Pei Du

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · xintangshu:172:s0058
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xintangshu:175:s0051

Roles

General
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 敬宗前後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 820 · End: AD 826
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:175:s0051
Source Date: Text: 淮西行營 · Western Interval: Start: AD 815 · End: AD 820
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:175:s0203
Source Date: Text: 長慶 · Western Interval: Start: c. AD 821 · End: c. AD 824
Explicit · xintangshu:172:s0058

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · xintangshu:172:s0058

References in the histories

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 172Volume 172 Biographies 97: Yu, Wang, Two Du's, Fan · 1 passage

而李逢吉黨謀傾執政，乃告稹結客刺裴度，事下有司，驗無狀，方坐誅。 Li Fengji's faction, plotting to oust the chief minister, accused Zhen of hiring assassins to kill Pei Du; though the inquiry found no proof, Fang was executed anyway.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 175Volume 175 Biographies 100: Dou, Liu, Two Zhangs, Yang, Xiong, Bai · 16 passages

節度使於頔聞其名，與語，奇之，表以自副。 Military commissioner Yu Di, hearing of him, conversed with him, marveled at him, and requested him as personal aide.

吉甫節度淮南，群謂失恩，因擠之。 When Jifu went out to Huainan as military commissioner, Qun thought he had fallen from grace and worked to squeeze him out.

牟，字貽周，累佐節度府。 Mou, style name Yizhou, served many times on frontier staffs.

晚從昭義盧從史，從史浸驕，牟度不可諫，即移疾歸東都。 In later years he followed Lu Congshi of Zhaoyi; when Congshi grew insolent, Mou saw counsel would fail, feigned illness, and returned to Luoyang.

元稹節度武昌，奏鞏自副，卒。 Yuan Zhen, commissioner at Wuchang, had Gong appointed his aide; Gong died in that post.

逢吉之罷裴度、逐李紳，皆嗾而為奸者。 Fengji's ouster of Pei Du and banishment of Li Shen were both driven by Qichu as his scheming henchman.

及逢吉罷，領山南東道節度，表又新為行軍司馬。 When Fengji lost office and went to the Shannan East Circuit, he took Youxin as campaign Sima.

人之疾苦積下，朝之制度莫脩。 Popular hardship piles up below, yet court institutions go unmended.

時又有衡山布衣趙知微，亦上書指言帝倡優在側，馳騁無度，內作色荒，外作禽荒。 Meanwhile Zhao Zhiwei, a Hengshan commoner, also wrote, accusing the emperor of keeping entertainers at hand, hunting without restraint, indulging lust within and sport without.

繇戶部侍郎拜荊南節度使，召為工部尚書。 From Revenue Vice Minister he was made Jingnan military commissioner, then recalled as Minister of Works.

漢公自同州更宣武、天平兩節度使，卒。 Hangong went from Tong to Xuanwu and Tianping as military commissioner and died.

開成初，繇兵部侍郎為東川節度使。 Early in Kaicheng he rose from War Vice Minister to Dongchuan military commissioner.

知溫終荊南節度使。 Zhiwen finished as Jingnan military commissioner.

是時，王承宗以常山叛，朝廷厭兵，耆杖策詣淮西行營謁裴度，且言願得天子一節馳入鎮，可掉舌下之。 Wang Chengzong had rebelled at Changshan while the court wearied of war; Ji visited Pei Du's western Huainan headquarters and vowed that with a single imperial commission he could talk the garrison into submission.

度為言，乃以左拾遺往。 Du endorsed him, and he went out as Left Reminder.

會橫海節度使李祐平德州，同捷窮，請降，祐使大將萬洪代守滄州，同捷未出也，耆以三百騎馳入滄，以事誅洪，與同捷朝京師。 Li You of Transverse Sea took Dezhou; Tongjie, desperate, offered to yield. You left Wan Hong to hold Cangzhou while Tongjie lingered; Ji raced in with three hundred riders, killed Hong, and brought Tongjie to court.