Five Dynasties · General and Rebel

Yang Guangyuan 楊光遠

Died AD 944

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yang Guangyuan was a general and Rebel.

Life and dates

Death

AD 944 癸酉
Strangled · Reported As illness · Authority Li Shouzhen (李守貞)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 83, passages 86, 89

Attested activity

AD 944 開運元年閏月
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 83, passages 85-87, 91

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Yang Chengxin (楊承信)
son 子
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 83, passage 85
Parent of Yang Chengzuo (楊承祚)
son 子
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 83, passage 85
Parent of Yang Chengxun (楊承勛)
son 子
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 83, passages 85, 96

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Jin 後晉 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 83, passages 85-87, 91

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 83Volume 83 Book of Later Jin 9: Emperor Shao 3 · 5 passages

皆光遠之子，先詣闕請罪，故特授是官。 Both were Guangyuan's sons, who had come to court first to plead guilty; they were therefore specially granted these posts.

癸酉，李守貞奏，楊光遠卒。 On guiyou, Li Shouzhen reported that Yang Guangyuan had died.

初，光遠既上表送降，帝以光遠頃歲太原歸命，欲曲全之，議者曰：「豈有反狀滔天而赦之也！」 When Guangyuan had submitted his surrender memorial, the Emperor, remembering that he had once submitted at Taiyuan, wished to spare him; but critics said, "How can treason of such magnitude be pardoned!"

縱逢恩赦，不在放還之限，並以楊光遠叛故也。 Even future amnesties would not restore them—all on account of Yang Guangyuan's rebellion.

曲赦青州管內罪人，立功將士各賜優給，青州吏民為楊光遠詿誤者，一切不問。 A partial amnesty was proclaimed for criminals in Qingzhou; meritorious soldiers received generous rewards; and officials and commoners misled by Yang Guangyuan were not prosecuted.