Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Court Favorite and Official

Lü Wendu 呂文度

Attested AD 473 - AD 493

Passages: 8
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Lü Wendu was a Court Favorite and Official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 473 to AD 477 元徽中
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 154
AD 483 to AD 493 永明中
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 160
AD 483 to AD 493 齊武帝
Directly stated · Book of Liang 52, passage 42

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Mother of Lü Wendu
mother 母
Directly stated · Book of Liang 52, passage 44

Key source chapters

Career and standing

clerk in the fine-work gold and silver treasury; bamboo-frame craftsman 細作金銀庫吏，竹局匠
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 153
supervisor of the Equipment Bureau 制局監
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 157
Held
Wielded great power
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 158

Places and affiliations

Polity Id liu-song · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 153
At Kuaiji 會稽
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 152
At Shanyin 山陰
Directly stated · Book of Liang 52, passage 42

Events and relationships

Relation Recommender of · Person Fei Yanzong (費延宗)
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 159

Source notes

Southern Qi 南齊
Statement Associated with Southern Qi (南齊); polity id not supplied in packet.
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 56, passage 157

References in the histories

Search passages

History

8 passages

Book of Liang, Chapter 52Volume 52: The Self-Sufficient · 3 passages

山陰人呂文度有寵於齊武帝，於餘姚立邸，頗縱橫。 Lü Wendu of Shanyin had favor with Qi Wudi and established a lodge in Yuyao, behaving overbearingly.

文度後還葬母，郡縣爭赴弔，憲之不與相聞。 Wendu later returned to bury his mother; commandery and county competed to attend mourning, but Xianzhi did not acknowledge it.

文度深銜之，卒不能傷也。 Wendu deeply resented this but in the end could not harm him.

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 56Volume 56 Biographies 37: Trusted Officials · 5 passages

紀僧真劉係宗茹法亮呂文顯呂文度 Ji Sengzhen, Liu Xizong, Ru Faliang, Lü Wenxian, and Lü Wendu

呂文度，會稽人。 Lü Wendu was a native of Kuaiji.

世祖鎮盆城拒沈攸之，文度仍留伏事，知軍隊雜役，以此見親。 When Emperor Wu was stationed at Pencheng resisting Shen Youzhi, Wendu remained behind to serve in secret and knew the army's miscellaneous duties; for this he won the emperor's favor.

世祖卽位，爲制局監，位至員外郎，帶南濮陽太守。 When Emperor Wu took the throne, Wendu was made supervisor of the Equipment Bureau, rose to supplementary gentleman, and concurrently served as governor of Nanpuyang.

故世傳越州嘗缺，上覔一直事人往越州，文度啓其所知費延宗合旨，上卽以爲刺史。 Hence the story that when Yuezhou once lacked a governor, the emperor sought a direct attendant to send there. Wendu reported that Fei Yanzong, a man he knew, suited the emperor's wishes, and the emperor at once appointed him governor.