Sui and Tang · Military Governor of Chengde

Wang Tingcou 王廷湊

Attested AD 821 - AD 834

Passages: 16
Chapters: 7
Histories: 3

Overview

Wang Tingcou was a Military Governor of Chengde.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 827 to AD 829 太和初
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 160, passage 284
AD 821 to AD 834 太和初
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 175, passage 215
AD 822 會赦王廷湊
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 160, passage 269
AD 827 to AD 829 王廷湊…討之
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 213, passages 193, 197, 202
AD 821 王廷湊
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 12
AD 821 王廷湊殺弘正
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 10

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AD 821 to AD 822 硃克融、王廷湊亂河朔
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 173, passage 117
AD 821 to AD 823 穆宗時
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 173, passage 138
c. AD 821 長慶初
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 172, passage 78
AD 821 長慶初
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 54, passage 5
AD 824 長慶四年
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 173, passage 166

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Ancestor of Wang Rong (王鎔)
fourth-generation ancestor 四代祖 · paternal line · 4 generations
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 54, passage 4
Parent of Wang Yuankui (王元逵)
son 子
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 54, passage 7

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Entered
Rebel
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 10
Received
AD 822 會赦王廷湊 · Pardoned
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 160, passage 269

Places and affiliations

Tang 唐
Relation Served
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 10
Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Rebelled against
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 160, passages 269, 284
Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Rebelled against
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 173, passages 117, 166

Events and relationships

Aided Tongjie coveting Heng Hai
Military · Commander · With Li Tongjie (李同捷)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 213, passage 193
Aided
AD 827 to AD 829 太和初 · Military · Ally · With Li Tongjie (李同捷)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 160, passage 284
Killed
Political · Assassin · With Tian Hongzheng (田弘正)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 10
Offered to cease arms
AD 821 to AD 823 穆宗時 · Diplomatic · Addressee · With Pei Du (裴度)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 173, passage 138
Rebelled
AD 821 to AD 822 硃克融、王廷湊亂河朔 · Military · Rebel leader · At Hebei 河朔
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 173, passage 117
Received fleeing troops
Military · Refuge
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 213, passage 202

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Slaughtered household
AD 824 長慶四年 · Massacre · Perpetrator · With Niu Yuanji (牛元翼)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 173, passage 166
Tribute cut and attacked
Political · Subject
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 213, passage 197

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 54, passage 4; New Book of Tang 172, passage 78; New Book of Tang 173, passages 117, 166
Value historical
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 160, passage 269

References in the histories

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History

16 passages

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 160Volume 156 Biographies 106: Yu Di, Han Hong, Wang Zhixing · 2 passages

事未行，會赦王廷湊，諸道班師。 Before the plan could be enacted, Wang Tingcou was pardoned and the allied armies withdrew.

初，同捷狂桀犯命，濟之以王廷湊，王師經年無功。 At first Tongjie's wild defiance of orders was sustained by aid from Wang Tingcou, and the imperial armies had failed for years.

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 185Volume 181 Biographies 131: Shi Xiancheng, Zi Xiaozhang, He Jintao, Han Yunzhong, Li Yanzhen, Luo Hongxin · 3 passages

居數月，為王廷湊所殺，遂以兵叛。 Within a few months Hongzheng was murdered by Wang Tingcou, who then rose in armed rebellion.

時幽州硃克融援助廷湊，布不能制，因自引決，軍情囂然。 Zhu Kerong of Youzhou was then supporting Tingcou. Bu could not bring the situation under control and took his own life, leaving the army in turmoil.

時克融、廷湊並據兵為亂，憲誠喜得旄節，雖外順朝旨，而中與硃、王為輔車之勢，長慶二年正月也。 Kerong and Tingcou were both in rebellion with their armies. Xiancheng was pleased to receive the commissioner's symbols of authority. Though he outwardly obeyed the court, inwardly he and Zhu and Wang were bound together like linked chariots. This was in the first month of Changqing 2 (822).

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 54Volume 54 Book of Later Tang 30: Biographies 6: Wang Rong, Wang Zhaohui, Wang Chuzhi · 3 passages

四代祖廷湊，事鎮帥王承宗為牙將。 His fourth-generation ancestor Tingcou served the military governor of Zhen, Wang Chengzong, as a guard officer.

既而鎮人殺宏正，推廷湊為留後，朝廷不能制，因以旄鉞授之。 Soon afterward the garrison of Zhen killed Hongzheng and installed Tingcou as acting governor. The court could not restrain them and therefore granted him the insignia of command.

廷湊卒，子元逵尚文宗女壽安公主。 When Tingcou died, his son Yuankui married Princess Shou'an, a daughter of Emperor Wenzong.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 172Volume 172 Biographies 97: Yu, Wang, Two Du's, Fan · 1 passage

會赦王廷湊，諸節度班師。 Wang Tingcou was pardoned, and the regional armies withdrew.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 173Volume 173 Biographies 98: Pei Du · 3 passages

硃克融、王廷湊亂河朔，加度鎮州行營招討使。 When Zhu Kerong and Wang Tingcou rebelled in Hebei, Du was appointed recruitment commissioner at the Zhenzhou field headquarters.

度之行，移克融、廷湊書，開說諄遝，傅以大誼，二人不敢桀，皆願罷兵。 On his journey Du wrote to Kerong and Tingcou, reasoning with them at length on the larger principles of loyalty. Neither dared defy him, and both offered to lay down arms.

長慶四年，王廷湊屠元翼之家，敬宗嗟惋，歎宰輔非其人，使凶賊熾肆。 In 824 Wang Tingcou massacred Niu Yuanji's household. Emperor Jingzong sighed in grief and lamented that his chief ministers were unworthy men who had let vicious rebels run wild.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 175Volume 175 Biographies 100: Dou, Liu, Two Zhangs, Yang, Xiong, Bai · 1 passage

既行，諜言王廷湊欲以奇兵劫同捷，耆遂斬其首以獻。 As they marched, word came that Wang Tingcou would ambush Tongjie; Ji beheaded Tongjie and presented the head.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 213Volume 213 Biographies 138: Buffer Regions: the Black, Green, and Yellow Seas · 3 passages

王廷湊本窺橫海，欲乘其隙取之，引軍來援。 Wang Tingcou had long eyed Heng-Hai and marched to Tongjie's aid, hoping to seize the circuit in the chaos.

是時，帝絕王廷湊朝貢，且討之，兵須夥繁，調發不時，始置供軍糧料使，以濟兩河，諸將又多張俘首以冒賞。 The emperor had cut off Wang Tingcou's tribute and was campaigning against him as well; troops were needed everywhere, supplies arrived late, and the court created the post of army-provisions commissioner for the two Hebei circuits—while generals inflated head counts to claim rewards.

祐攻拔德州，餘卒奔廷湊。 You captured Dezhou; the survivors fled to Wang Tingcou.