Sui and Tang · Sui and Tang Official and Geographer

Pei Ju 裴矩

Attested AD 547 - AD 627

Passages: 7
Chapters: 3
Histories: 2

Overview

Pei Ju was a Sui and Tang Official and Geographer.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 616 及薨
Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 61, passage 113
AD 605 to AD 618 煬帝
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 8, 11
AD 547 to AD 627 裴矩生卒年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 53, passage 39

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Pei Shuying (裴淑英)
daughter 女 · paternal line
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 8
Spouse of Mother of Pei Shuying (裴淑英之母)
husband 夫
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 9

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Minister of Revenue 戶部尚書
Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 8
Vice Director of the Palace Secretariat 黃門侍郎
Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 11
Duke of Anyi 安邑公
Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 8

Places and affiliations

Polity Northern Zhou
Strongly inferred · Book of Sui 53, passage 39
Polity Sui
Strongly inferred · Book of Sui 53, passage 39
Polity Tang
Strongly inferred · Book of Sui 53, passage 39
Polity Sui 隋 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passage 11

Events and relationships

His biography supplies the variant route name “Dingxiang route.”
Textual reference
Directly stated · Book of Sui 53, passage 39
Sought to force daughter remarriage
Political · Actor
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 203, passages 22-23, 25

Source notes

Reading Dingxiang route · Compared Reading Mayi route · Location Pei Ju biography
Textual variant · Book of Sui 53, passage 39

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 203Volume 193 Biographies 143: Exemplary Women · 5 passages

李德武妻裴氏，字淑英，戶部尚書、安邑公矩之女也。 Li Dewu's wife, Lady Pei, whose courtesy name was Shuying, was the daughter of Pei Ju, Minister of Revenue and Duke of Anyi.

矩時為黃門侍郎，奏請德武離婚，煬帝許之。 At that time Ju was Vice Director of the Palace Secretariat; he petitioned that Dewu divorce her, and Emperor Yang granted the request.

矩欲奪其志。 Ju sought to break her resolve.

時有柳直求婚，許之。 At that time Liu Zhi proposed marriage, and Ju consented.

矩不可奪，乃止。 Ju could not sway her, and the marriage was called off.

Book of Sui, Chapter 53Volume 53 Biographies 18: Daxi Zhangru, Helou Zigan, Shi Wansui, Liu Fang · 1 passage

[一] 馬邑道本書裴矩傳作「定襄道」． [1] The Mayi route: in the biography of Pei Ju in this book it reads “the Dingxiang route.”

Book of Sui, Chapter 61Volume 61 Biographies 26: Yu Wenshu, Guo Yan · 1 passage

及薨，帝為之廢朝，贈司徒、尚書令、十郡太守，班劍四十人，轀輬車，前後部鼓吹，諡曰恭，帝令黃門侍郎裴矩祭乙太牢，鴻臚監護喪事。 When he died, the emperor suspended court for him. He was posthumously granted the titles of Minister of Education and Director of the Imperial Secretariat, the governorship of ten commanderies, forty halberd-bearers, an imperial carriage, and front and rear martial music, with the posthumous title Gong. The emperor ordered Yellow Gate Attendant Pei Ju to sacrifice a great offering of the second grade and the Court of State Ceremonial to supervise the funeral.