Sui and Tang · Official

Ren Zhigu 任知古

Attested AD 690 - AD 713

Passages
4
Chapters
3
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Ren Zhigu as an official. This record brings together 4 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Ren Zhigu 任知古 Ren Zhigu
Personal name Ren Zhigu 任知古 Ren Zhigu
Given Zhigu 知古 Zhigu

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: AD 690-700 · Western Interval: Start: AD 690 · End: AD 700
    Strongly inferred · xintangshu:113:s0176
  • Source Date: Text: 任知古 · Western Year: AD 713
    Explicit · xintangshu:121:s0136
  • Source Date: Text: 載初以後 · Western Year: AD 690
    Explicit event contextual date · jiutangshu:085:s0155

References in the histories

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 85Volume 81 Biographies 31: Cui Dunli, Lu Chengqin, Liu Xiangdao, Li Jingxuan, Li Yiyan, Sun Chuyue, Le Yanwei, Zhao Renben · 2 passages
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New Book of Tang, Chapter 113Volume 113 Biographies 38: Tang, Zhang, Xu · 1 passage
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鳳閣侍郎任知古、冬官尚書裴行本等七人被誣當死，後謂宰相曰：「古人以殺止殺，我今以恩止殺，就群公丐知古等，賜以再生，可乎？」 Phoenix Pavilion vice minister Ren Zhigu, Winter Office minister Pei Xingben, and seven others faced false charges of death. The empress told the chancellors, "The ancients stopped killing by killing; I now wish to stop killing by grace. I ask you to spare Zhigu and the others and give them life again—is that possible?"
New Book of Tang, Chapter 121Volume 121 Biographies 46: Liu, Zhong, Cui, and the Two Kings · 1 passage
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