Wang Gongyan (王公儼)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Gongyan as a military officer, official, and rebel. This record brings together 13 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Gongyan	王公儼	Wang Gongyan
Given	Gongyan	公儼	Gongyan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:037:s0036

Roles

Military Officer
Official
Rebel

Life and dates

Death

Manner: beheaded · Place: east of Qingzhou / 州東 · Killer Person Id: Huo Yanwei (霍彥威)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:037:s0048

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: AD 926 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:026:s0015
Source Date: Text: 同光中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 923 · End: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:037:s0037
Source Date: Text: 天成元年 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:037:s0036

Career and standing

Label: Dengzhou prefect / 登州刺史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:037:s0045

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Addressee Person Id: Yang Xiwang (楊希望)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:037:s0042

Source notes

Field: capture-chronology · Statement: Zizhi Tongjian dates Gongyan taking office on yiwei and capture on dingyou after Yanwei reached Qingzhou · Source Work: Zizhi Tongjian / 通鑒
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:037:s0050, jiuwudaishi:037:s0051, jiuwudaishi:037:s0052

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 37Volume 37 Book of Later Tang 13: Mingzong Annals 3 · 8 passages

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新授青州節度使霍彥威奏，處斬新登州刺史王公儼，及同謀拒命指揮使李謹、王居厚等八人訖。 New Qing commissioner Huo Yanwei reported executing Deng prefect Wang Gongyan and eight plotters, including Li Jin and Wang Juhou.

公儼素受希望獎愛，謂希望曰：「內侍宜分腹心之兵，監四面守陴者，則誰敢異圖。」 Gongyan, favored by Yang Xiwang, said to him, "Your Grace should divide your trusted troops to watch all four sides of the ramparts—then who would dare plot differently."

公儼乘其無備，圍希望之第，擒而殺之。 Gongyan surprised him, surrounded his house, seized Yang Xiwang, and killed him.

公儼遂與州將李謹等謀據州城，以邀符節，即令軍府飛章留己，兼揚言符習在鎮，人不便其政，帝乃除公儼為登州刺史。 Gongyan and Li Jin seized the city, memorialized to keep the post, and claimed Fu Xi's rule was unpopular; Zhuangzong named him Deng prefect.

公儼不時赴任，即以霍彥威代符習，聚兵淄州，以圖進取。 Gongyan delayed reporting; Huo Yanwei replaced Fu Xi, gathered troops at Zi, and prepared to advance.

彥威至淄州，會詔使至青州告諭，公儼即赴所任。 At Zi an envoy reached Qing with the court order, and Gongyan set out for his post.

彥威懲其初心，遣人擒公儼於北海縣，與同黨斬於州東。 Yanwei seized Gongyan at Beihai and beheaded him and his party east of the city.

〈（《通鑒》：彥威聚兵淄州，以圖進取，公儼懼。 (The 《Zizhi Tongjian》 says Yanwei concentrated at Zi to advance and Gongyan panicked.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 26Volume 26 Later Tang Biographies 6: Fu Xi, Wu Zhen, Kong Qian, Zhang Yanlang, Li Yan, Li Renju, Mao Zhang · 5 passages

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指揮使王公儼素為希望所信，紿希望曰：「內侍盡忠朝廷，誅反者家族，孰敢不效命！ Wang Gongyan, a commander Xiwang trusted, tricked him: “You serve the throne faithfully by destroying a rebel’s kin—who would not follow you?

希望信之，乃悉分其兵守城，公儼因擒希望斬之，習家屬由是獲免。 Xiwang believed him and sent his men to the walls. Gongyan seized him and cut off his head. Xi’s family was spared.

而公儼宣言青人不便習之嚴急，不欲習復來，因自求為節度使。 Gongyan then declared that Qing’s people hated Xi’s harsh rule and would not have him back—and asked for the command himself.

明宗乃以房知溫代習鎮平盧，拜公儼登州刺史。 Mingzong replaced Xi with Fang Zhiwen at Pinglu and made Gongyan prefect of Deng.

公儼不時承命，知溫擒而殺之。 Gongyan would not obey. Zhiwen took him and killed him.