Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · General and Royal Family Member

Yuan Tianmu 元天穆

Attested AD 527 - AD 532

Passages
13
Chapters
4
Histories
3

Overview

The translated histories identify Yuan Tianmu as an aristocrat, general, and royal family member. This record brings together 13 passages from 4 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yuan Tianmu 元天穆 Yuan Tianmu
Title Prince of Shangdang 上黨王 Shangdang Wang
Title Prince of Shangdang 上黨王 Shangdang wang
Title Shangdang Prince Tianmu 上黨王天穆 Shangdang wang Tianmu
Personal Tianmu 天穆 Tianmu
Personal Yuan Tianmu 元天穆
Personal name Yuan Tianmu 元天穆 Yuan Tianmu
Surname 元 Yuan
Given 天穆 Tianmu

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • General
  • Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 上黨王元天穆 · Qualitative: father of Guiyan’s wife, active in the late Northern Wei as Prince of Shangdang · Western Interval: Start: AD 528 · End: AD 530
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:014:s0149
  • Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:032:s0052
  • Source Date: Text: 元天穆討邢杲 · Western Year: AD 529
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:026:s0025
  • Source Date: Text: 尒朱世隆 · Western Interval: Start: AD 528 · End: AD 532
    Explicit event contextual date · weishu:086:s0067

Family

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Career and standing

  • Label: Grand General / 大將軍 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529
    Explicit · liangshu:032:s0067
  • Title: Prince of Shangdang / 上黨王 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529
    Explicit · liangshu:032:s0067
  • Title: Prince of Shangdang / 上黨王 · Action: held
    Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0149

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: military · Action: advanced to reinforce Yingyang but was routed and escaped alone on horseback · Role: commander · Other Person Id: Chen Qingzhi (陳慶之) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529
    Explicit · liangshu:032:s0052, liangshu:032:s0054, liangshu:032:s0061
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned against Xing Gao · Other Person Id: Xing Gao (邢杲) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元天穆討邢杲 · Western Year: AD 529
    Explicit event contextual date · beiqishu:026:s0025
  • Kind: military · Action: retook Daliang, then fled north across the river with about a dozen riders · Role: commander · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大通初 · Reign: 大通 · Western Interval: Start: AD 527 · End: AD 529
    Explicit · liangshu:032:s0067, liangshu:032:s0068

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 14Volume 14 Biographies 6: Guangping Gongcheng; Yangzhou Gong Yongle; Di Zhangbi; Prince of Xiangle, Xiang Guo; Prince of Shangluo, Si Zong; Zi Yuanhai; Di Sihao; Prince of Pingqin, Guiyan; Prince Pu of Wuxing; Changle, Governor of Lingshan; Sizi Fuhu · 1 passage
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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 26Volume 26 Biographies 18: Xue Chu; Jing Xianjun; Ping Jian · 4 passages
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Book of Liang, Chapter 32Volume 32: Chen Qingzhi; Lan Qin · 7 passages
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魏大將軍上黨王元天穆、王老生、李叔仁又率衆四萬，攻陷大梁，分遣老生、費穆兵二萬，據虎牢，刁宣、刁雙入梁、宋，慶之隨方掩襲，並皆降款。 Grand General Prince Tianmu of Shangdang, Wang Laosheng, and Li Shuren marched again with forty thousand, took Daliang, and sent Laosheng and Fei Mu with twenty thousand to hold Hulao while Diao Xuan and Diao Shuang pushed into Liang and Song. Qingzhi ambushed them wherever they moved, and they all surrendered.
Book of Wei, Chapter 86Volume 81: Qi Jun, Shan Wei, Liu Renzhi, Yuwen Zhongzhi · 1 passage
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國史自鄧淵、崔琛、崔浩、高允、李彪、崔光以還，諸人相繼撰錄，綦儁及偉等諂說上黨王天穆及尒朱世隆，以為國書正應代人修緝，不宜委之餘人，是以儁、偉等更主大籍。 Since Deng Yuan, Cui Chen, Cui Hao, Gao Yun, Li Biao, and Cui Guang, the national history had been compiled in turn by successive scholars; Qi Jun, Wei, and others flattered Shangdang Prince Tianmu and Erzhu Shilong, arguing that the state annals ought to be edited by men of Dai and not entrusted to outsiders—so Jun, Wei, and their circle again took charge of the great registers.