Wang Liang 王亮

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · liangshu:016:s0003, nanqishu:008:s0052
• Sex: male
  Explicit · liangshu:017:s0024

Roles

• Aristocrat
• Family Member
• Official
• Statesman

Family

• Child of Wang Yan (王偃)
  Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: grandson · Object Role: grandfather · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
• Descendant of Wang Dao (王導)
  Kinship Term: sixth-generation descendant / 六世孫 · Generation Distance: 6 · Line: paternal
• Kin of Wang Ying (王瑩)
  Kinship Term: cousin / 從弟 · Subject Relative Age: uncertain
• Child of Wang You (王攸)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
• Spouse of Princess married to Wang Liang
  Kinship Term: matched to a princess / 尚公主 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife
• Child of Mother of Wang Liang
  Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother

Career and standing

• Label: Minister of Ceremonies / 太常卿 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年 · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 509
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0075
• Label: Acting Director of the Masters of Writing / 守尚書令 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · nanqishu:008:s0052
• Label: Commandant of the Horse for the Imperial Son-in-law / 駙馬都尉 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0006
• Label: Director of the Masters of Writing / 尚書令 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0027
• Label: Director of the Ministry of Personnel / 吏部尚書 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建武末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 494 · End: AD 498
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0013
• Label: Chief Clerk of the Grand Marshal / 大司馬長史 · Action: held
  Explicit · nanqishu:008:s0052
• Label: Director of the Secretariat / 秘書監 · Action: recalled · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年 · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 509
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0075
• Label: Left Grand Master of Splendid Happiness / 左光祿大夫 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 503
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0028
• Label: Director of the Secretariat / 中書監 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九年 · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 510
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0076
• Title: Duke of Yuning / 豫寧縣公 · Action: enfeoffed · Households: 2000 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 高祖受禪 · Western Year: AD 502
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0027
• Label: funeral gift of cash and cloth / 賻錢三萬，布五十匹 · Action: bestowed
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0078
• Status: commoner · Action: stripped · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天監二年 · Western Year: AD 503
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0031
• Label: stripped of rank and made commoner / 削爵廢為庶人 · Action: punished
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0031

Places and affiliations

• Label: Southern Qi / 南齊 · Relation: served
  Explicit · nanqishu:008:s0052
• Polity: Liang / 梁 · Relation: served
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0026, liangshu:016:s0027
• Polity: Southern Qi / 齊 · Relation: served
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0007, liangshu:016:s0011
• Polity Id: liu-song · Relation: served
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0006
• Place: Linyi in Langye / 琅邪臨沂
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0003
• Place: Hengyang / 衡陽 · Relation: appointed-to
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0008
• Place: Jinling / 晉陵 · Relation: posted-to
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0010

Events and relationships

• Kind: political · Role: refused welcome · Action: alone did not send loyalty when Righteous Army reached Xinlin · Place: Xinlin / 新林
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0021
• Kind: political · Role: participant · Action: met-after-coup · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十二月丙寅旦 · Western Year: AD 501
  Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:017:s0024
• Kind: court · Role: accused · Action: pleaded illness on New Year court; impeached for disrespect
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0029, liangshu:016:s0030
• Relation: subordinate-of · Person Id: Prince of Liang (梁王)
  Explicit · nanqishu:008:s0052
• Relation: associate-of · Person Id: Jiang Shi (江祏)
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0015, liangshu:016:s0016
• Relation: opponent-of · Person Id: Jiang Shi (江祏)
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0014

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: faithless, shifting, corrupt · Provenance: Mode: ruler-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Gaozu (高祖)
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0070
• Assessment: outwardly careful but chose by seniority alone; age did not call him able · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0018
• Assessment: took and rejected differently from the three Yin worthies; brought ruin on himself · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Yao Cha (姚察)
  Explicit · liangshu:016:s0177, liangshu:016:s0178, liangshu:016:s0180