Wang Jingren (王景仁)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Jingren as a general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 33 passages from 6 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Jingren	王景仁	Wang Jingren
Given	Jingren	景仁	Jingren
Changed	Maozhang	茂章	Màozhāng
Surname	Wang	王	Wang
Personal name	Wang Jingren	王景仁	Wang Jingren
Personal	Wang Jingren	王景仁	Wáng Jǐngrén

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:006:s0024, jiuwudaishi:054:s0079, jiuwudaishi:139:s0040
Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0168, xinwudaishi:002:s0096, xinwudaishi:023:s0038

Roles

General
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Death

Cause: carbuncle / 疽 · Manner: illness · Place: capital / 京師 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: after the Last Emperor's accession · Western Year: AD 914
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:023:s0062

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: Kaiping 4 through his later death · Western Interval: Start: AD 910 · End: AD 914
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:023:s0121, xinwudaishi:023:s0062
Source Date: Text: 乾化元年春正月丁亥 · Western Year: AD 911
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:002:s0099
Source Date: Text: 天祐七年 · Western Year: AD 910
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:054:s0079
Source Date: Text: 开平四年十一月己丑 · Western Year: AD 910
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Source Date: Text: 開平 campaign to Baixiang · Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 911
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:024:s0168, jiuwudaishi:024:s0170
Source Date: Text: 開平五年 · Western Year: AD 911
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:006:s0028
Source Date: Text: 開平四年十一月 · Western Year: AD 910
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:006:s0024
Source Date: Text: 開平四年十二月 · Western Year: AD 910
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:139:s0040, jiuwudaishi:139:s0039

Career and standing

Label: general / 將
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:139:s0040
Label: co-equal grand councilor / 同中書門下平章事 · Action: added
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0058
Label: Huainan pacification commissioner / 淮南招討使 · Action: appointed · Authority Person Id: Youzhen (友貞)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0060
Label: regimental commander of Runzhou / 潤州團練使 · Action: appointed · Authority Person Id: Yang Xingmi (楊行密)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0054
Label: military governor of Ningguo / 寧國軍節度使 · Action: appointed · Authority Person Id: Taizu of Liang (太祖)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0058
Label: northern-route pacification commissioner / 北面招討使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平四年 · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 910
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:023:s0121
Label: Ningguo military governor / northern-route commander against Zhao / 宁国军节度使北面行营招讨使 · Action: appointed
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Label: overall northern campaign commander / 北面行營都招討使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:006:s0024
Label: Ningguo military commissioner / 甯國軍節度使 · Action: held
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Label: military governor of Xuanzhou / 宣州節度使 · Action: nominated · Authority Person Id: Qian Liu (錢鏐)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0057
Label: all former offices and titles · Action: restored · Date Context: Source Date: Text: several months after dismissal · Western Year: AD 911
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:023:s0128
Honor: Grand Marshal / 太尉 · Action: posthumously-bestowed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0062
Status: dismissed-to-private-residence · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: after the Baixiang defeat · Western Year: AD 911
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:023:s0128

Places and affiliations

Label: Later Liang / 梁 · Relation: served
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:006:s0024
Polity: Later Liang / 梁 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:139:s0039, jiuwudaishi:139:s0040
Place: Hefei in Luzhou / 廬州合淝 · Relation: native-of
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0038
Place: Xuanzhou / 宣州 · Relation: posted-to · Authority Person Id: Yang Wo (渥)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0055

Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: former follower · Action: bowed and wept at Yang Xingmi's shrine · Other Person Id: Yang Xingmi (楊行密)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0060
Kind: military · Role: rear guard · Action: covered the retreat at Huo Mountain and prevented total defeat
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0061
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated Taizu's pursuing army through tactical deception and repeated combat · Other Person Id: Taizu of Liang (太祖)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0045, xinwudaishi:023:s0049
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated-at-Baixiang · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾化元年 · Western Year: AD 911
Explicit · xinwudaishi:002:s0099
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated-at-Baixiang · Other Person Id: Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang (後唐莊宗) · Place: Baixiang / 柏鄉
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:006:s0028
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated-at-Baixiang · Place: Baixiang / 柏鄉
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0170
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: disobeyed recall and suffered a major defeat at Baixiang · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾化元年正月庚寅 · Regnal Year: 1 · Lunar Month: 1 · Sexagenary Day: 庚寅 · Western Year: AD 911
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:023:s0122, xinwudaishi:023:s0123, xinwudaishi:023:s0124, xinwudaishi:023:s0127
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: encamped-at-Baixiang · Place: Baixiang / 柏鄉 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天祐七年 · Western Year: AD 910
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:054:s0079
Kind: military · Role: defeated · Action: greatly defeated by Tang Zhuangzong at Boxiang · Other Person Id: Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang (後唐莊宗) · Place: Boxiang / 柏鄉 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平五年正月二日 · Western Year: AD 911
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:139:s0041
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: led great army north; warning of lunar eclipse could not overtake him · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平四年十二月十四日 · Western Year: AD 910
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:139:s0040, jiuwudaishi:139:s0039
Kind: military · Role: relief commander · Action: led seven thousand troops to aid Wang Shifan and killed Zhu Youning · Other Person Ids: Wang Shifan (王師範), Zhu Youning (朱友寧) · Result: victory
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0041, xinwudaishi:023:s0042, xinwudaishi:023:s0043, xinwudaishi:023:s0044
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: led-northern-expedition
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:006:s0024, jiuwudaishi:006:s0027
Kind: political · Role: rebelled-against-successor · Action: refused Yang Wo's demand and fled after attack · Other Person Id: Yang Wo (渥)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0056, xinwudaishi:023:s0057
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: withdrew safely after Li Qianyu covered the retreat and died · Other Person Id: Li Qianyu (李虔裕)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0050, xinwudaishi:023:s0051, xinwudaishi:023:s0052, xinwudaishi:023:s0053

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: fierce, daring, plain, and always led from the front · Assessor Person Id: Yang Xingmi (楊行密) · Provenance: Mode: historian-and-named-person-assessment · Source Person Id: Yang Xingmi (楊行密)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0040

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:054:s0079, jiuwudaishi:139:s0040
From: Maozhang / 茂章 · To: Jingren / 景仁
Explicit · xinwudaishi:023:s0038, xinwudaishi:023:s0039

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 6Volume 6 Book of Later Liang 6: Taizu Annals 6 · 2 passages

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以甯國軍節度使王景仁充北面行營都招討使，潞州副招討使韓勍為副，相州刺史李思安為先鋒使。 Wang Jingren, Ningguo commissioner, became overall northern campaign commander; Han Qin, Luzhou deputy, his second; Li Si’an, Xiangzhou prefect, vanguard.

時王景仁方總大軍北伐，追之不及。 Wang Jingren was already at the head of the main northern force; the recall did not overtake him.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 24Volume 24 Book of Later Liang 24: Biographies 14: Li Ting, Lu Ceng, Sun Zhi, Zhang Jun, Zhang Yan, Du Xunhe, Luo Yin, Chou Yin, Duan Shen · 1 passage

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初，王景仁之出師也。 Earlier, when Wang Jingren took the field.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 54Volume 54 Book of Later Tang 30: Biographies 6: Wang Rong, Wang Zhaohui, Wang Chuzhi · 1 passage

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又遣大將王景仁、李思安率師七萬，營於柏鄉。 He also dispatched the great generals Wang Jingren and Li Si'an with seventy thousand troops, encamped at Baixiang.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 139Volume 139: Treatises 1 Astronomy · 1 passage

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時王景仁方總大軍北伐，追之不及。 Wang Jingren was already leading the main army north; the warning could not reach him in time.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 2Volume 2 Later Liang Annals 2: Taizu 2 · 2 passages

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冬十一月己丑，宁国军节度使王景仁为北面行营招讨使以伐赵。 In the eleventh month of winter, on the day jichou, Wang Jingren of Ningguo was appointed to command the northern campaign against Zhao.

乾化元年春正月丁亥，王景仁及晉人戰于柏鄉，敗績。 In the first month of spring, Qianhua 1 (911), on the day dinghai, Wang Jingren met the Jin at Baixiang and lost.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 23Volume 23 Later Liang Biographies 3: Yang Shihou, Wang Jingren, He Gui, Wang Tan, Ma Sixun, Wang Qianyu, Xie Yanzhang · 26 passages

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王景仁，廬州合淝人也。 Wang Jingren came from Hefei in Luzhou.

初名茂章，少從楊行密起淮南。 He was first called Maozhang. As a youth he followed Yang Xingmi’s rise in Huainan.

景仁為將驍勇剛悍，質略無威儀，臨敵務以身先士卒，行密壯之。 Jingren fought with fierce, blunt courage and no show of rank; in battle he always led from the front. Xingmi admired him.

梁太祖遣子友寧攻王師範於青州，師範乞兵於行密，行密遣景仁以步騎七千救師範。 Taizu of Liang sent his son Youning against Wang Shifan at Qingzhou. Shifan begged Xingmi for aid, and Xingmi sent Jingren with seven thousand foot and horse to relieve him.

師範以兵背城為兩柵，友寧夜擊其一柵，柵中告急，趣景仁出戰，景仁按兵不動。 Shifan built two palisaded camps with his back to the wall. Youning struck one by night; the camp cried for help and begged Jingren out, but Jingren held his men still.

遲明，景仁度友寧兵已困，乃出戰，大敗之，遂斬友寧，以其首報行密。 At dawn Jingren judged Youning’s men spent, went out, and routed them. He beheaded Youning and sent the head to Xingmi.

是時，梁太祖方攻鄆州，聞子友寧死，以兵二十萬倍道而至，景仁閉壘示怯，伺梁兵怠，毀柵而出，驅馳疾戰，戰酣退坐，召諸將飲酒，已而復戰。 Taizu was then besieging Yun prefecture. When he heard of Youning’s death he came with two hundred thousand men at forced march. Jingren shut the ramparts and played timid; when Liang slackened he tore down the palisades and charged. Battle ran hot; he withdrew to sit, called his generals to drink, then went back in.

曰：「王茂章也。」 “Maozhang,” he said.

景仁軍還，梁兵急追之，景仁度不可走，遣裨將李虔裕以眾一旅設覆於山下以待之，留軍不行，解鞍而寢。 Jingren’s army withdrew; Liang pressed hard. Seeing he could not outrun them, Jingren sent Li Qianyu with one brigade to lie in ambush below the hills, kept the main force still, unbridled his horse, and slept.

景仁曰：「吾亦戰於此也。」 Jingren said: “I will fight here too.”

虔裕三請，景仁乃行，而虔裕卒戰死，梁兵以故不能及，而景仁全軍以歸。 Qianyu begged three times; Jingren only then rode off. Qianyu died fighting; Liang could not catch up, and Jingren brought the whole army home.