Zhang Renyuan (張仁願)

Overview

Zhang Renyuan was an official.

PeriodFive Dynasties

IdentityHistorical · Male

Roles

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Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 901 to AD 940 仁願事梁唐晉
Strongly inferred · New History of the Five Dynasties 21, passages 198, 200

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Sibling of Zhang Renying (張仁穎)
elder brother 兄 · Full siblings
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 21, passage 199
Child of Zhang Cunjing (張存敬)
son 子
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 21, passage 198

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 21Volume 21 Later Liang Biographies 1: Jing Xiang, Zhu Zhen, Pang Shigu, Ge Congzhou, Huo Cun, Zhang Cunjing, Fu Daozhao, Liu Han, Kou Yangqing · 3 passages

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存敬子仁穎、仁願。 Cunjing’s sons were Renying and Renyuan.

仁願有孝行，存敬卒，事其兄仁穎，出必告，反必面，如事父之禮。 Renyuan was filial. After Cunjing died he served his elder brother Renying—going out he announced it, returning he reported face to face, as to a father.

仁願曉法令，事梁、唐、晉，常為大理卿，卒，贈秘書監。 Renyuan knew the law. Under Liang, Tang, and Jin he often served as chief judge of the supreme court. He died and was posthumously made Director of the Secretariat.