Zhang Yongde (張永德)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Yongde as an aristocrat, general, military officer, and named individual. This record brings together 9 passages from 5 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhang Yongde	張永德	Zhang Yongde
Title	imperial son-in-law	駙馬都尉
Personal	Yongde	永德	Yongde
Given	Yongde	永德	Yongde
Given name	Yongde	永德	Yongde
Personal name	Zhang Yongde	張永德	Zhang Yongde
Personal name	Zhang Yongde	張永德	Zhāng Yǒngdé

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0124, xinwudaishi:032:s0094
Value: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:070:s0043

Roles

Aristocrat
General
Military Officer
Named Individual

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 廣順元年四月 · Regnal Year: 1 · Month: 4 · Western Year: AD 951
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Source Date: Text: 周世宗征淮 · Western Year: AD 956
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Source Date: Text: 顯德元年三月 · Western Year: AD 954
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Source Date: Text: 顯德六年 · Western Year: AD 959
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Family

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Spouse of Daughter of Zhou Taizu (周太祖之女)
Kinship Term: married a daughter of Taizu of Zhou / 尚周太祖之女 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: active
Kinship Term: married to / 尚 · Union Category: marriage
Spouse of Princess Shou'an (壽安公主)
Kinship Term: married / 降 · Union Category: marriage
Kinship Term: married / 降 · Union Category: marriage

Career and standing

Label: Xuzhou military commissioner / 許州節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 顯德六年七月 · Western Year: AD 959
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Label: Military Commissioner of Chanzhou / 澶州節度使 · Action: held
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Label: Director of the Palace Front / 殿前都點檢 · Action: removed
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Works and attributed material

Work: Eastern Capital Miscellany, Biography of Zhang Yongde / 東都事略·張永德傳 · Relation: subject-of
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0004
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Shizong (世宗)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:119:s0074, jiuwudaishi:119:s0075

Events and relationships

Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Li Chongjin (李重進)
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Source notes

Historicity: historical
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References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 119Volume 119 Book of Later Zhou 21: Shizong Annals 6 · 4 passages

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時張永德為澶州節度使，永德尚周太祖之女，以親故，獨得至臥內，於是群臣因永德言曰：「天下未定，根本空虛，四方諸侯惟幸京師之有變。 Zhang Yongde was then military commissioner of Chanzhou; having married a daughter of Taizu of Zhou, he alone was admitted to the sickroom by reason of kinship. The officials therefore spoke through Yongde: "The realm is not yet settled and the capital lies exposed; the regional lords all hope for upheaval in the capital.

永德然之，乘間為世宗言如群臣旨，世宗問：「誰使汝為此言？」 Yongde agreed and at an opportune moment relayed the officials' plea to Shizong. Shizong asked, "Who put you up to this?"

永德對以群臣之意皆願為此，世宗熟思久之，嘆曰：「吾固知汝必為人所教，獨不喻吾意哉！ Yongde replied that all the officials wished it. Shizong thought long and sighed: "I knew someone had coached you—you alone fail to grasp what I mean!

澶州節度使兼殿前都點檢、駙馬都尉張永德落軍職，加檢校太尉、同平章事； Zhang Yongde of Chanzhou, director of the palace front and imperial son-in-law, was relieved of his military posts and given acting grand marshal and concurrent grand councilor;

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 120Volume 120 Book of Later Zhou 22: Emperor Gong Annals · 1 passage

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以澶州節度使、檢校太尉、同平章事、附馬都尉張永德為許州節度使，進封開國公； Zhang Yongde of Chanzhou, imperial son-in-law and grand councilor, became Xuzhou commissioner and was made Duke Who Opens the State;

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 121Volume 121 Book of Later Zhou 23: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 2 passages

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〈（《東都事略·張永德傳》云：周太祖柴後，本唐莊宗之嬪御也。 (The 《Eastern Capital Miscellany》, Biography of Zhang Yongde, states that Empress Chai of Emperor Taizu of Zhou had originally been a concubine of Emperor Zhuangzong of Tang.

第四女壽安公主，降張永德，廣順元年四月封，至顯德元年，封晉國長公主。 The fourth daughter, Princess Shou'an, married Zhang Yongde and was enfeoffed in Guangshun 1.4; by Xiande 1 she held the title Grand Princess of Jin.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 32Volume 32 Biographies of Martyrs to Virtue 12: Wang Yanzhang · 1 passage

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而重進與張永德兩軍相疑不協，仁贍屢請出戰，景達不許，由是憤惋成疾。 Chongjin and Zhang Yongde distrusted each other and would not cooperate. Renzhan begged again and again to sally; Jingda refused—and resentment curdled into sickness.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 70Volume 70: Hereditary House of Eastern Han · 1 passage

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顯德元年三月親征，甲午，戰於高平，李重進、白重贊將左，樊愛能、何徽將右，向訓、史彥超居中軍，張永德以禁兵衛蹕。 Third month, Xiande 1: he marched in person. On jiawu day the armies met at Gaoping—Li Chongjin and Bai Chongzan on the left, Fan Aineng and He Hui on the right, Xiang Xun and Shi Yanchao in the center, Zhang Yongde shielding the imperial train with the palace guard.