Wei Boyu (衛伯玉) | 24 Histories

Overview

Wei Boyu was a general and Official.

PeriodSui and Tang

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Life and dates

Death

AD 776 大歷十一年二月
Illness · At capital 京師
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 98
died after returning to the capital
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 185

Attested activity

AD 759 乾元二年十月
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 143
AD 761 上元二年二月
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passages 147-148
AD 776 大歷十一年二月
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 98
AD 759 乾元二年
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 141, passage 178
AD 776 大歷十一年
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 141, passage 184
AD 742 to AD 756 天寶中
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 140

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AD 742 to AD 756 天寶中
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 141, passage 176
AD 763 廣德元年
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passages 94-95
AD 763 廣德元年
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 141, passage 182
AD 756 至德元載
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 141

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

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

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Career and standing

Censor-in-Chief 御史大夫
AD 763 廣德元年 · Appointed · Concurrent true
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 95
Honorary General of the Imperial Guards 員外諸衛將軍
AD 742 to AD 756 天寶中 · Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 140
Mayor of Jingling 江陵尹
AD 763 廣德元年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 95
military commissioner of Jingnan 荊南節度使
AD 763 廣德元年 · Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 182
Military Governor and Observation Commissioner of Jingnan 荊南節度觀察等使
AD 763 廣德元年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 95
Army Commissioner of the Shence Army 神策軍兵馬使
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 142

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Grand General of the Right Yulin Army 右羽林軍大將軍
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 144
Military Commissioner of the Shence Army 神策軍節度
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 146
Military Governor of the Four Garrisons and Beiting campaign headquarters 四鎮、北庭行營節度使
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 145
Minister of Works by inspection 檢校工部尚書
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 96
Shence army commander 神策兵馬使
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 177
Duke of Hedong commandery 河東郡公
Enfeoffed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 149
Prince of Chengyang commandery 城陽郡王
Enfeoffed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 96
Special Grand Master 特進
Advanced
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 149
prince of Chengyang 城陽郡王
AD 763 廣德元年 · Advanced
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 182
duke of Hedong 河東郡公
Granted
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 181
Entered
AD 766 to AD 768 大歷初 · Mourning
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 97

Places and affiliations

Tang 唐
Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 139
AD 742 to AD 756 天寶中
At Anxi 安西 · Relation Traveled to
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 140

Learning and skills

Skill martial arts 藝 · Level practiced from childhood
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 139

Events and relationships

Defeated Li Guiren
AD 759 乾元二年 · Military · Commander · With Li Guiren (李歸仁)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 178
Defeated Shi Chaoyi
Military · Commander · With Shi Chaoyi (史朝義)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 180
Defeated rebels
AD 761 上元二年二月 · Military · Commander · At Yongning 永寧
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 148
Defeated
AD 759 乾元二年十月 · Military · Commander · With Li Guiren (李歸仁) · At Jiangzi Slope 疆子阪
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 143
Incited refusal of replacement and recalled from mourning
Political · Actor · With Wang Ang (王昂)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 97
Returned from Anxi to Changan
AD 756 至德元載 · Travel · Actor
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 141

Assessments and attributes

Assessment despised for seizing office while in mourning · Mode named-source-report
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 97
Assessment fierce warrior but still a soldier for grasping office in mourning · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 134
Assessment retention during mourning despised · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 141, passage 183
great physical strength
Physical description
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 119, passage 139

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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 · 8 passages

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衛伯玉，有膂力，幼習藝。 Wei Boyu was powerfully built and had practiced martial arts since childhood.

肅宗即位，興師靖難，伯玉激憤，思立功名，自安西歸長安。 When Suzong ascended the throne and raised an army to quell the rebellion, Boyu burned with indignation, eager to win merit and fame, and returned from Anxi to Chang'an.

乾元二年十月，逆賊史思明遣偽將李歸仁鐵騎三千來犯，伯玉以數百騎於疆子阪擊破之，積屍滿野，虜馬六百匹，歸仁與其黨東走。 In the tenth month of 759 the rebel Shi Siming sent the false general Li Guiren with three thousand armored cavalry to attack. Boyu met them with several hundred horsemen at Jiangzi Slope and routed them. Corpses covered the ground, six hundred horses were captured, and Guiren fled east with his followers.

獻俘百余人至闕下，詔解縛而赦之，遷伯玉神策軍節度。 He presented more than a hundred captives at court; an edict ordered their bonds removed and granted them pardon, and Boyu was made military commissioner of the Shence Army.

伯玉以兵逆擊，大破賊於永寧。 Boyu met the attack with troops and routed the rebels at Yongning.

以伯玉有幹略，可當重寄，乃拜江陵尹、兼御史大夫，充荊南節度觀察等使。 Because Wei Boyu had capacity and resolve fit for grave responsibility, he was appointed mayor of Jingling, concurrent censor-in-chief, and military governor and observation commissioner of Jingnan.

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.

伯玉破敵立功，足為猛士，丁憂冒寵，終是武夫。 Boyu broke the enemy and won merit worthy of a fierce warrior; yet seizing office while still in mourning for his mother shows him still a soldier at heart.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 141Volume 141 Biographies 66: Cui, Deng, Wei, Wei, Li Han, Lu, Gao · 5 passages

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衞伯玉，史失其何所人。 Wei Boyu — the histories do not record his birthplace.