Yang Fugong (楊復恭)

Overview

Yang Fugong was an eunuch and Official.

Life and dates

Death

Killed after Maozhen stormed Xingyuan
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 40, passage 5

Attested activity

AD 891 大順二年
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 40, passages 2, 5

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Yang Shouliang (楊守亮)
adopted son 養子 · Adoptive parentage
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 40, passage 2

Career and standing

Privy Council commissioner 樞密使
Held
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 40, passage 2

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 40Volume 40 Miscellaneous Biographies 20: Li Maozhen, Han Jian, Li Renfu, Han Xun, Yang Chongben, Gao Wanxing, Wen Tao · 3 passages

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二年，樞密使楊復恭得罪，奔於興元，興元節度使楊守亮，復恭之養子也，納之。 In the second year Yang Fugong, the Privy Council commissioner, lost the emperor’s trust and fled to Xingyuan. Yang Shouliang, military commissioner of Xingyuan and Fugong’s adopted son, took him in.

茂貞乃上書言復恭父子罪皆當誅，因自請為山南招討使。 Maozhen memorialized that Fugong and his son deserved death, and asked to lead the campaign into the southern mountains.

茂貞擅發兵攻破興元，復恭父子見殺。 Maozhen marched without leave, broke Xingyuan, and Fugong and his son were put to death.