Zhang Ge (張格) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Ge as an aristocrat, official, and statesman. This record brings together 12 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhang Ge	張格	Zhang Ge
Courtesy name	Chengzhi	承之	Chengzhi
Given name	Ge	格	Ge
Personal name	Zhang Ge	張格	Zhang Ge

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:037:s0055, jiuwudaishi:071:s0122

Roles

Aristocrat
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 同光末 · Western Year: AD 925
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:071:s0137
Source Date: Text: 天成元年 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:037:s0055
Western Year: AD 903 · Source Date: Text: 浚為梁祖所忌，潛遣人害於長水。
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0123
Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 918 · Source Date: Text: 王建僭號，以格為宰相。
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Family

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Child of Mother of Zhang Ge (張格所生母)
Kinship Term: birth mother / 所生母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Child of Zhang Jun (張浚)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Sibling of Li Yan (李儼)
Kinship Term: third son / 第三子 · Shared Parentage: full

Career and standing

Label: chief minister / 宰相 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0130
Label: Crown Prince Mentor and deputy Three Offices commissioner / 太子賓客，充三司副使 · Action: appointed
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Label: Mentor of the Heir Apparent / 太子賓客 · Action: appointed
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Title: Duke of Zhao / 趙國公 · Action: held
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Former Shu · Relation: served
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0130

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: capable writer and administrator · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0143

Source notes

Note: changed name when fleeing to Shu
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:071:s0124

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 37Volume 37 Book of Later Tang 13: Mingzong Annals 3 · 1 passage

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壬子，襄州節度使劉訓加檢校太傅，以偽蜀右僕射、中書侍郎、平章事、趙國公張格為太子賓客，充三司副使，從任圜請也。 On renzi Liu Xun of Xiang became acting grand tutor; false Shu minister Zhang Ge became crown prince mentor and deputy Three Offices commissioner at Ren Yuan's request.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 71Volume 71 Book of Later Tang 47: Biographies 23: Ma Yu, Si Kongting, Cao Tingyin, Xiao Xifu, Yao Zongzhi, Jia Fu, Ma Gao, Luo Guan, Chun Yuyan, Zhang Ge, Xu Ji, Zhou Xuanbao · 11 passages

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張格，字承之，故宰相浚之子也。 Zhang Ge, styled Chengzhi, was the son of the former chief minister Zhang Jun.

格易姓名，流轉入蜀。 Ge changed his name and made his way into Shu.

〈（《舊唐書·張浚傳》：永寧縣吏葉彥者，張氏待之素厚，告格曰：「相公之禍不可免，郎君宜自為計。」 (The Old Book of Tang, biography of Zhang Jun: Ye Yan, a Yongning county clerk whom the Zhangs had long favored, told Ge, "Your father's doom cannot be avoided—you must save yourself."

格拜辭而去，葉彥率義士三十人送渡漢江而旋。 Ge took his leave; Ye Yan led thirty volunteers to see him across the Han River and then turned back.

格由荊江上峽入蜀。）〉 Ge entered Shu through the Yangtze gorges.)〉

王建僭號，以格為宰相。 When Wang Jian declared himself emperor, he made Ge his chief minister.

格所生母，當浚之遇害，潛匿於民間，落發為尼，流浪於函、洛。 When Jun was killed, Ge's mother went into hiding among the people, took the tonsure, and wandered between the Hangu Pass and Luoyang.

及建卒，蜀人以格為山陵使，格有難色。 When Jian died, Shu made Ge commissioner for the imperial tombs, and Ge looked uneasy.

同光末，蜀平，格至洛陽， When Shu fell at the end of Tongguang, Ge came to Luoyang,

〈（《舊唐書》：任圜攜格還洛，格感葉彥之惠，訪之，身已歿，厚恤其家。 (The Old Book of Tang: Ren Yuan brought Ge back to Luoyang; remembering Ye Yan's kindness, Ge sought him out, found him dead, and generously provided for his family.

格有文章，明吏事，時頗稱之。 Ge was a capable writer and administrator, and his contemporaries spoke well of him.