Five Dynasties · General and Official

Zhang Guihou 張歸厚

Died AD 913

Passages
17
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Guihou as a bandit, family member, general, and military officer. This record brings together 17 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Zhang Guihou 張歸厚 Zhang Guihou
Courtesy Dekun 德坤 Dekun
Given Guihou 歸厚 Guihou
Surname Zhang Zhang
Given 歸厚 Guihou

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Bandit
  • Family Member
  • General
  • Military Officer
  • Official

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: illness · Place: in office / 於位 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明年夏 · Western Year: AD 913

Attested activity

Family

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  • Descendant of Zhang Xing (張興)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Parentage: biological
  • Sibling of Zhang Guiba (張歸霸)
    Kinship Term: brothers / 昆仲 · Shared Parentage: full
    Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother
  • Sibling of Zhang Guibian (張歸弁)
    Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Birth Order: 2 · Object Birth Order: 3
  • Child of Zhang Churang (張處讓)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Line: paternal
  • Parent of Zhang Hanqing (張漢卿)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

  • Label: Zhenguo military commissioner / 鎮國軍節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾化二年 · Western Year: AD 912
  • Label: posthumous Grand Preceptor / 太師 · Action: posthumously-granted
  • Title: split tallies and ranks from soldiery / 由介胄而析圭爵 · Action: received · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  • Status: former-bandit · Action: escaped-from · Label: great bandit streams / 巨盜之流

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

Source notes

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 16Volume 16 Book of Later Liang 16: Biographies 6: Ge Congzhou, Xie Yanzhang, He Zhen, Zhang Guiba, Zhang Guihou, Zhang Guibian · 17 passages