Five Dynasties · General

Zhang Jingda 張敬達

Died AD 936

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhang Jingda was a general.

Life and dates

Death

AD 936 清泰三年
Killed · Killed by Yang Guangyuan (楊光遠) · Summary Killed by Yang Guangyuan and others who then surrendered to the Khitan.
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 137, passage 110

Attested activity

AD 936 清泰三年
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 137, passage 106

Career and standing

general 將
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 137, passage 106

Events and relationships

Besieged
AD 936 清泰三年 · Military · Besieger · With Jin Founder (晉高祖)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 137, passage 106
Defeated
AD 936 清泰三年 · Military · Commander · At Jinyang 晉陽
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 137, passage 108

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 137Volume 137: Foreign States Biographies 1: Khitan · 3 passages

清泰三年，晉高祖為張敬達等攻圍甚急，遣指揮使何福賫表乞師，願為臣子。 In Qingtai 3 the Jin founder was besieged by Zhang Jingda and others. He sent Commander He Fu with a petition begging for Khitan aid and offering to become their vassal.

德光乃自率五萬騎由雁門至晉陽，即日大破敬達之眾於城下，尋冊晉高祖為大晉皇帝，約為父子之國，割幽州管內及新、武、雲、應、朔州之地以賂之，仍每歲許輸帛三十萬。 Deguang led fifty thousand horsemen through Yanmen to Jinyang and the same day routed Zhang Jingda beneath the walls. He then enthroned the Jin founder as emperor of Great Jin, pledged a father-and-son alliance, ceded the Sixteen Prefectures including Youzhou, Xin, Wu, Yun, Ying, and Shuo, and promised three hundred thousand bolts of silk each year.

楊光遠等殺張敬達降於契丹，德光戲謂光遠等曰：「爾輩大是惡漢兒，不用鹽酪，食卻一萬匹戰馬。」 Yang Guangyuan and others killed Zhang Jingda and surrendered. Deguang joked to them, "You wicked Han — you won't touch salt or dairy, yet you've devoured ten thousand of our war horses."