Song, Liao, and Jin · Former Chief Minister

Zeng Gongliang 曾公亮

Attested AD 1059 - AD 1118

Passages
11
Chapters
4
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Zeng Gongliang as an official and statesman. This record brings together 11 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Zeng Gongliang 曾公亮 Zeng Gongliang
Title Commissioner of the Jixi Abbey 集禧觀使 Jixi guan shi
Given name Gongliang 公亮 Gongliang
Title Military commissioner 節度 Jiedu
Title Minister of Works 司空 Sikong
Surname Zeng 曾 Zeng
Personal name Zeng Gongliang 曾公亮 Zeng Gongliang

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 冬十月丙申 · Western Year: AD 1069
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:014:s0231, songshi:014:s0230
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉祐四年十月 · Western Year: AD 1059
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:107:s0017
  • Source Date: Text: 政和 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1111 · End: AD 1118
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:120:s0153, songshi:120:s0154
  • Source Date: Text: 治平四年正月戊辰 · Western Year: AD 1067
    Explicit · songshi:014:s0027
  • Source Date: Text: 熙寧二年 · Western Year: AD 1069
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:014:s0189
  • Source Date: Text: 熙寧二年 · Western Year: AD 1069
    Explicit · songshi:110:s0123
  • Source Date: Text: 熙寧元年 · Western Year: AD 1068
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:014:s0104
  • Source Date: Text: 熙寧元年 · Western Year: AD 1068
    Explicit · songshi:110:s0035

Career and standing

  • Label: Co-Director of the Secretariat-Chancellery / 同中書門下平章事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 冬十月 · Western Year: AD 1069
    Explicit · songshi:014:s0231
  • Label: left vice director / 尚書左僕射 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshi:014:s0277
  • Label: Master of Bridge Roads and Relay Arrangements / 橋道頓遞使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · songshi:107:s0017
  • Label: Acting Grand Commandant / 攝太尉 · Action: held
    Explicit · songshi:110:s0123
  • Label: Chief Minister / 宰臣 · Action: held
    Explicit · songshi:110:s0035
  • Label: Commissioner of the Jixi Abbey / 集禧觀使 · Action: held
    Explicit · songshi:120:s0154
  • Label: Minister of Works / 司空 · Action: held
    Explicit · songshi:120:s0154
  • Label: Vice Grand Councilor / 參知政事 · Action: held
    Explicit · songshi:107:s0017
  • Title: Duke of Ying / 英國公 · Action: advanced
    Explicit · songshi:014:s0027
  • Status: former-chief-minister · Action: held
    Explicit · songshi:120:s0154

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

  • Work: Veritable Records of Yingzong / 英宗實錄 · Relation: compiler
    Explicit · songshi:014:s0212

Events and relationships

References in the histories

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History of Song, Chapter 14Volume 14 Annals 14: Shenzong 1 · 7 passages
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戊辰，以韓琦守司空兼侍中，曾公亮行門下侍郎兼吏部尚書、進封英國公，文彥博行尚書左僕射、檢校司徒兼中書令，富弼改武甯軍節度使、進封鄭國公，曹佾改昭慶軍節度使、檢校太傅，張昪改河陽三城節度使，宗諤同中書門下平章事，改集慶軍節度使、檢校尚書左僕射，歐陽修、趙槩並加尚書左丞，仍參知政事，陳升之爲戶部侍郎，呂公弼爲刑部侍郎，允弼、允良並加守太保，弟東陽郡王顥進封昌王，鄠國公頵進封樂安郡王。 On wuchen the cabinet was reshaped: Han Qi, Zeng Gongliang, Wen Yanbo, Fu Bi, Cao Yi, Zhang Sheng, Zongnu, Ouyang Xiu, Zhao Gai, Chen Shengzhi, Lü Gongbi, and the princes received new ranks and posts.
History of Song, Chapter 107Volume 107 Treatises 60: Rites 10 · 1 passage
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嘉祐四年十月，仁宗親 詣太廟行祫享禮，以宰臣富弼為祫享大禮使，韓琦為禮儀使，樞密使宋庠為儀仗使，參知政事曾公亮為橋道頓遞使，樞密副使程戡為鹵簿使。 In the tenth month of the fourth year of Jiayou, Emperor Renzong went in person to the Imperial Ancestral Temple to perform the xiá merging sacrifice. Chief Councilor Fu Bi served as Grandee of the Xiá Rite; Han Qi as Master of Ceremonies; Privy Council Commissioner Song Xiang as Master of Insignia; Vice Grand Councilor Zeng Gongliang as Master of Bridge Roads and Relay Arrangements; and Vice Privy Council Commissioner Cheng Kan as Master of the Imperial Guard.
History of Song, Chapter 110Volume 110 Treatises 63: Rites 13 · 2 passages
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熙寧二年，神宗尊皇太后曹氏為太皇太后，詣文德殿跪奉玉冊授攝太尉曾公亮、金寶授攝司徒韓絳，又跪奉皇太后高氏玉冊授攝太尉文彥博、金寶授攝司徒趙抃，禮畢，百官稱賀。 In Xining 2, 1069, Shenzong honored Empress Dowager Cao as grand empress dowager. At Wende Hall he knelt and presented the jade patent to Acting Grand Commandant Zeng Gongliang and the gold seal to Acting Minister over the Masses Han Jiang. He knelt again and presented the jade patent of Empress Dowager Gao to Acting Grand Commandant Wen Yanbo and the gold seal to Acting Minister over the Masses Zhao Bian. When the rites were complete, all officials offered congratulations.
History of Song, Chapter 120Volume 120 Treatises 73: Rites 23 · 1 passage
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