Mother of Wei Boyu (衛伯玉之母)

Overview

Mother of Wei Boyu was a Family Member.

PeriodSui and Tang

IdentityHistorical · Female · Anonymous individuated

Roles

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Life and dates

Death

AD 766 to AD 768 大歷初
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 97

Attested activity

AD 766 to AD 768 大歷初
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 97
AD 766 大歷初
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 141, passage 183

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Wei Boyu (衛伯玉)
mother 母 · maternal line
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 97; New Book of Tang 141, passage 183

Key source chapters

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 119Volume 115 Biographies 65: Cui Qi, Zhao Guozhen, Cui Guan, Jing Kuo, Wei Yuanfu, Wei Shaoyou, Wei Boyu, Li Cheng · 1 passage

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大歷初，丁母憂，朝廷以王昂代其任，伯玉潛諷將吏不受詔，遂起復以本官為荊南節度等使，時議醜之。 Early in the Dali era he entered mourning for his mother; the court sent Wang Ang to replace him. Boyu secretly incited his officers and clerks to refuse the order, and was recalled from mourning to his former post as Jingnan commissioner—contemporaries despised him for it.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 141Volume 141 Biographies 66: Cui, Deng, Wei, Wei, Li Han, Lu, Gao · 1 passage

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大歷初，以母憂當代，諷將吏留己，復詔節度荊南，議者醜其留。 Early in the Dali era, when he should have been replaced on account of mourning for his mother, he incited officers and clerks to keep him in office. An edict again appointed him military commissioner of Jingnan, and those who discussed it despised his retention.