Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Aristocrat

Wang Sui 王綏

Attested AD 402 - AD 404

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Sui was an aristocrat.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 402 to AD 404 愉子綏，玄之外甥
Dated from the passage context · Book of Song 92, passage 29

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Kin of Huan Xuan (桓玄)
sister's son 外甥 · maternal line · Through Mother of Wang Sui (王綏母)
Directly stated · Book of Song 92, passage 29
Child of Mother of Wang Sui (王綏母)
mother 母 · maternal line
Strongly inferred · Book of Song 92, passage 29
Child of Wang Yu (王愉)
son 子 · paternal line
Directly stated · Book of Song 92, passage 29

Events and relationships

Helped force Zhenzhi out
Political · Suppressor
Directly stated · Book of Song 92, passage 29

Assessments and attributes

Assessment immensely powerful at court · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Song 92, passage 29

References in the histories

Book of Song, Chapter 92Volume 92 Biographies 52: Liang Li · 1 passage

愉子綏，玄之外甥，當時貴盛，鎮之為所排抑，以母老求補安成太守。 Wang Yu's son Sui was Huan Xuan's sister's son and immensely powerful at court. Zhenzhi was forced out and, pleading his mother's advanced age, asked to be appointed administrator of Ancheng.