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Tuoba Ding 拓跋定

Attested AD 567 - AD 568

Passages: 8
Chapters: 3
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Tuoba Ding as an aristocrat and general. This record brings together 8 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Tuoba Ding	拓跋定	Tuoba Ding
Given	Ding	定	Dìng
Title	Duke of Chang	長胡公
Title	Duke of Changhu	長胡公
Surname	Tuoba	拓跋
Surname	Tuoba	拓跋	Tuòbá
Personal name	Tuoba Ding	拓跋定	Tuoba Ding
Personal	Tuoba Ding	拓跋定	Tuòbá Dìng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · chenshu:004:s0056, chenshu:010:s0075, chenshu:020:s0118

Roles

Aristocrat
General

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 光大元年 · Western Year: AD 567
Explicit event contextual date · chenshu:020:s0118
Source Date: Text: 光大元年九月 · Western Year: AD 567
Explicit · chenshu:004:s0056
Source Date: Text: 華皎之反 · Western Interval: Start: AD 567 · End: AD 568
Explicit · chenshu:010:s0075, chenshu:010:s0076

Career and standing

Status: captivity · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光大元年九月 · Western Year: AD 567
Explicit · chenshu:004:s0057

Places and affiliations

Label: Northern Zhou / 周 · Relation: served
Explicit · chenshu:004:s0056
Polity: Northern Zhou / 周 · Relation: served
Explicit · chenshu:020:s0118

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: besieged-Yingzhou-then-surrendered
Explicit · chenshu:020:s0118, chenshu:020:s0137
Kind: military · Role: invading-commander · Action: invaded · Place: Yingzhou / 郢州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光大元年九月 · Western Year: AD 567
Explicit · chenshu:004:s0056

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 4Volume 4: Emperor Fei · 2 passages

是月，周將長胡公拓跋定率步騎二萬入郢州，與華皎水陸俱進，都督淳于量、吳明徹等與戰，大破之。 That month Northern Zhou's general Tuoba Ding, Duke of Chang, entered Yingzhou with twenty thousand foot and horse and joined Hua Jiao on land and water; Chunyu Liang, Wu Mingche, and others fought them and won a great victory.

皎單舸奔江陵，擒拓跋定，俘獲萬餘人，馬四千餘匹，送京師。 Jiao fled alone by boat to Jiangling; Tuoba Ding was captured, and more than ten thousand prisoners and four thousand horses were sent to the capital.

Book of Chen, Chapter 10Volume 10: Zhou Tiehu; Cheng Lingxi · 4 passages

又從僧辯克定京邑，降謝答仁，平陸納於湘州。 He again followed Sengbian in recovering the capital, took Xie Daren's surrender, and pacified Lu Na in Xiangzhou.

是時周遣其將長胡公拓跋定率步騎二萬助皎攻圍靈洗，靈洗嬰城固守。 Zhou then sent its general the Duke of Changhu, Tuoba Ding, with twenty thousand foot and horse to help Jiao besiege Lingxi. Lingxi shut the walls and held.

及皎退，乃出軍躡定，定不獲濟江，以其红降。 When Jiao withdrew, Lingxi marched out and pursued Ding. Ding could not cross the river and surrendered with his army.

永定中，累遷通直散騎侍郎、句容令。 In the Yongding era he rose through regular attendant of direct communication to magistrate of Jurong.

Book of Chen, Chapter 20Volume 20: Dao Zhongju; Han Zigao; Hua Jiao · 2 passages

周武又遣其弟衛國公宇文直率眾屯魯山，又遣其柱國長胡公拓跋定人馬三萬，攻圍郢州。 Emperor Wu of Zhou also sent his brother the Duke of Weiguo, Yuwen Zhi, to camp at Lushan, and his pillar of state Tuoba Ding with thirty thousand troops to besiege Yingzhou.

拓跋定等無復船渡，步趨巴陵，巴陵城邑為官軍所據，乃向湘州。 Tuoba Ding and his men had no ships to cross with and marched on Baling on foot; the Baling towns were already in imperial hands, so they headed for Xiangzhou.