Wang Sengchuo 王僧綽

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · songshu:070:s0113
• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · songshu:071:s0181

Roles

• Aristocrat
• Courtier
• Family Member
• Named Individual
• Official
• Statesman

Family

• Kin of Wang Hui (王徽)
  Kinship Term: cousin / 從兄 · Line: paternal
• Child of Wang Tanshou (王曇首)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Spouse of Eldest Princess Xian of Dongyang (東陽獻公主)
  Kinship Term: married / 尚 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife
• Parent of Wang Jian (王儉)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Kin of Wang Wei (王微)
  Kinship Term: younger cousin / 從弟 · Line: paternal · Subject Role: elder-cousin · Object Role: younger-cousin

Career and standing

• Label: Director of Personnel / 尚書吏部郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉二十六年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 449
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0178
• Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉二十八年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 28 · Western Year: AD 451
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0180
• Title: Marquis of Yuzhang / 豫章縣侯 · Action: inherited
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0176
• Title: Household Grandee with Golden Seal and Purple Ribbon / 金紫光祿大夫 · Action: posthumous · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 世祖即位 · Western Year: AD 453
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0215

Places and affiliations

• Polity Id: liu-song · Relation: served
  Strongly inferred · songshu:071:s0181
• Place: Linyi in Langye commandery / 琅邪臨沂
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0172
• Place: ill-omened plot west of Grand Altar / 太社西空地 · Relation: residence-sought
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0219

Works and attributed material

• Work: precedents since Han and Wei for deposing princes / 漢魏以來廢諸王故事 · Relation: compiler
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0192, songshu:071:s0193
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Addressee Person Id: Liu Yilong (劉義隆) · Mode: quoted
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0197, songshu:071:s0198, songshu:071:s0199, songshu:071:s0200, songshu:071:s0201, songshu:071:s0202, songshu:071:s0203, songshu:071:s0204, songshu:071:s0205, songshu:071:s0206, songshu:071:s0207

Events and relationships

• Kind: political · Role: counselor · Action: advised swift decision on succession · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉末 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 30 · Western Year: AD 453
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0197, songshu:071:s0207
• Kind: political · Role: victim · Action: executed after Shao found his memorials · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉三十年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 30 · Western Year: AD 453
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0213
• Relation: client-patron · Person Id: Jia Feizhi (賈匪之) · Note: Jia Feizhi was Sengchuo's client
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0214
• Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Jiang Zhan (江湛)
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0209

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: modest and deep-judged · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0181, songshu:071:s0186
• Assessment: moral virtue and humility; died before midlife · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0229, songshu:071:s0230

Source notes

• Historicity: historical
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0181
• Kind: residence-omen · Statement: took ill-omened former Ding Feng residence and met downfall before moving in
  Explicit · songshu:071:s0219, songshu:071:s0220