Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Son of Fan Faxun and Lady Chu

Fan Senjian 范僧簡

Fan Sengjian

Attested AD 477 - AD 501

Passages: 4
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Fan Senjian was a Son of Fan Faxun and Lady Chu.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 477 to AD 479 昇明中
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 87
AD 483 to AD 493 永明中
Dated from the passage context · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 91
AD 501 義師起
Directly stated · Book of Liang 19, passage 30

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Fan Faxun (范法恂)
father 父
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 87
Kin of Sun Tanguan (孫曇瓘)
kinsman 親
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 87
Child of Lady Chu (褚氏)
son 其子
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 87

Key source chapters

Events and relationships

Recovered and buried Sun Tanwan’s body at his mother’s direction
Biographical · Participant
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 55, passage 89

References in the histories

Book of Liang, Chapter 19Volume 19: Zong Guai; Liu Tan; Yue Ai · 1 passage

時東昏遣安成太守劉希祖破西臺所選太守范僧簡於平都，希祖移檄湘部，於是始興內史王僧粲應之。 Donghun's Liu Xizu defeated the western court's Fan Senjian at Pingdu and issued a call across Xiang; Shixing interior governor Wang Sengru answered.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 55Volume 55 Biographies 36: Filial Piety · 3 passages

宋昇明中，孫曇瓘謀反亡命，褚謂其子僧簡曰：「孫越州先姑之姉子，與汝父親則從母兄弟，交則義重古人。 During the Shengming era Sun Tanwan rebelled and fled. Chu told her son Sengjian: "Sun of Yuezhou is kin to your late aunt; he and your father are cousins, and their friendship was as weighty as that of the ancients.

曇瓘尋伏法，褚氏令僧簡往歛葬。 Tanwan was soon executed. Lady Chu sent Sengjian to recover his body and bury him.

僧簡在都，聞病馳歸，未至而褚已卒，將殯，舉尸不起，尋而僧簡至焉。 Sengjian was in the capital. Hearing she was ill he rushed home, but she died before he arrived. When they tried to move her body for burial it would not lift—until Sengjian came.