Tian Lingzi (田令孜) (died 893), courtesy name Zhongze (仲則), formally the Duke of Jin (晉公), was a powerful eunuch during the reign of Emperor Xizong of Tang. During most of Emperor Xizong's reign, he had a stranglehold on power due to his close personal relationship with Emperor Xizong as well as his control over the eunuch-commanded Shence Armies, even throughout Emperor Xizong's flight to Xichuan Circuit (西川, headquartered in modern Chengdu, Sichuan) in the face of Huang Chao's agrarian rebellion. Late in Emperor Xizong's reign, he was forced to give up his powerful position after his dispute with the warlord Wang Chongrong led to multiple rebellions that rendered the Tang court virtually powerless over the warlords, and he was given refuge by his brother Chen Jingxuan, the military governor of Xichuan. In 891, however, Chen was defeated by Wang Jian and forced to surrender Xichuan to Wang. In 893, Wang put Chen and Tian to death.
TianLingzi (田令孜) (died 893), courtesy name Zhongze (仲則), formally the Duke of Jin (晉公), was a powerful eunuch during the reign of Emperor Xizong of Tang...
due to his association with the powerful eunuch TianLingzi. He later had a fall out with Tian and Tian's brother Chen Jingxuan, however, and in a subsequent...
relationship with the court of Emperor Xizong and the powerful eunuch TianLingzi. It is not known when Wang Chongrong was born, and the official histories...
As he was growing up, one of his constant companions was the eunuch TianLingzi, who attended to the stables at his mansion. In 873, Emperor Yizong became...
Chengdu, Sichuan by virtue of his being an older brother of the eunuch TianLingzi, who controlled the court of Emperor Xizong during most of Emperor Xizong's...
Tang Dynasty. Disillusioned with Emperor Xizong and the powerful eunuch TianLingzi, he tried to support Emperor Xizong's distant relative Li Yun the Prince...
Tian Kuangyou and TianLingzi publicly, and after Tian Kuangyou returned to Chang'an, he encouraged TianLingzi to act against Wang Chongrong. Tian Lingzi...
of energy and requested a horse from the eunuch TianLingzi, who dominated Emperor Xizong's court; Tian refused and whipped Li Jie's attendant for the...
Chengdu, Sichuan), where Chen Jingxuan, the brother of the powerful eunuch TianLingzi, was military governor. Emperor Xizong, however, wanted to also make...
disputes with the influential court eunuch TianLingzi, and died of illness shortly thereafter. Assuming that Zheng Tian died in 883, he might have been born...
civil bureaucracy, Lu aligned himself with the powerful palace eunuch TianLingzi and the influential military commander Gao Pian to become the imperial...
authority had essentially ceased to exist. The newly recruited army of TianLingzi, 54,000 strong, was soon destroyed trying to bring two northern warlords...
there, he was once favored by the powerful eunuch TianLingzi who adopted him as his son with the name Tian Yanbin (田彥賓). In 886, Emperor Xizong, who had...
beginning to prepare to return, then-leading chancellor Zheng Tian had offended TianLingzi and Chen and was removed. Pei was recalled to serve as Zhongshu...
Zongquan declares himself emperor, sacks Luoyang, and leaves 886 Eunuch TianLingzi takes Emperor Xizong of Tang to Xingyuan (east of Hanzhong, Shaanxi)...
manipulate and maintain cosmic relations between humans and heaven (天; Tian). Although era names originated in the reign of Emperor Wu of Han (r. 141–87...
eventually returned to Chang'an, but clashed with the powerful palace eunuch TianLingzi and found many of his efforts frustrated. When Emperor Xizong was once...
Xizong was subject to constant manipulation by eunuch officers like TianLingzi. Although the rebellion was finally defeated in 884, the court continued...
who had previously grudges against Chen and Chen's brother, the eunuch TianLingzi, whom Chen was protecting, for the imperial government to be involved...
Chen Jingxuan and TianLingzi [(Chen was the military governor of Xichuan Circuit (西川, headquartered in modern Chengdu, Sichuan), and Tian was his brother...
(翰林學士承旨, Hanlin Xueshi Chengzhi). In late 885, after the powerful eunuch TianLingzi got into a dispute with the warlord Wang Chongrong the military governor...
the summons of his own adoptive father, the eunuch general TianLingzi, to serve under Tian's brother Chen Jingxuan, who was the military governor of Xichuan...
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