Martial-Righteous Qaghan (武義可汗)

Overview

Martial-Righteous Qaghan was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 780 建中元年
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 131, passages 48, 74

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Kin of Tumidu (突董)
paternal uncle 叔父 · paternal line · Through Father of the Martial-Righteous Qaghan (武義可汗之父)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 131, passage 74
Child of Father of the Martial-Righteous Qaghan (武義可汗之父)
father 父
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 131, passage 74

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 131, passages 81-84

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 131Volume 127 Biographies 77: Yao Lingyan, Zhang Guangcheng, Yuan Xiu, Qiao Lin, Zhang She, Jiang Zhen, Hong Jinglun, Peng Yan · 4 passages

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突董者，即武義可汗之叔父也。 Tumidu was the uncle of the Martial-Righteous qaghan.

屍既至，可汗令宰臣已下具彩服車馬來迎。 When the corpses arrived, the qaghan ordered ministers down to the common offices to meet them with colored robes, carriages, and horses.

可汗使謂休曰：「我國人皆欲殺汝，唯我不然。 The qaghan sent word to Xiu: "All my people wished to kill you; only I did not.

遣散支將軍康赤心等隨休來朝，休竟不得見其可汗。 He sent General Kang Chixin and others to accompany Xiu to court; Xiu never obtained audience with the qaghan.