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◎Families of Imperial Consorts Table. Han history warns of the danger consort families posed when Wang Mang seized power; Jin history records the catastrophe of the Rebellion of the Eight Princes. In the Liao annals the Yelü and Xiao families account for nearly all high officeholders; the imperial lineage and the empresses' kin were evenly matched in strength and acted as mutual safeguards of the dynasty. This may have been one workable approach to statecraft. Yet what raised them also destroyed them—a defect inherent in the system. The Khitan empresses' kin traced their origins to the Two Shimi clans, the Bali, and the Yishi. Taizu of Liao took a wife from the Shulü clan. The Shulü were originally descended from the Uyghur chieftain Nusi. In the first year of Datong (947), as Emperor Taizong prepared to withdraw from Kaifeng, he left the consort kinsman Xiaohan as military governor of Bianzhou and bestowed on him the Chinese-style name Xiao Han; thereafter the Bali, Yishi, and Shulü lineages all adopted the surname Xiao in keeping with Chinese custom. The Bali were divided into two houses, the Great Father and Little Father lines; the Yishi likewise into the Great Elder and Little Elder lines; Emperor Shizong established his uncle Taliege as head of a separate Imperial Uncle division. All three clans held hereditary claim to the office of Northern Chancellor from Shence 2 (917), when Taizu first appointed Agu Zhi. Emperor Shengzong consolidated the Bali and Yishi imperial-uncle households into a single registry, leaving two divisions when the Separate Division is counted. Such is the full account of how the Liao empresses' kin took shape. Hence the compilation of the Families of Imperial Consorts Table. Families of Imperial Consorts Table
| 戚 | 一世 | 二世 | 三世 | 四世 | 五世 | 六世 | 七世 | 八世 | 九世 | 十世 | 十一世 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 蕭氏 | 五世祖胡母里。 | 北府宰相敵魯。 | 平章事討古。 | ||||||||
| 北府宰相干。 | |||||||||||
| 景宗睿智皇后父思溫 | 忽里沒。 | 北府宰相思溫。 | 北府宰相繼先。思溫無嗣，睿智皇后命為後。 | ||||||||
| 馬群侍中朮魯烈。 | 蘭陵郡王撻凜。 | 南京統軍慥古。 | |||||||||
| 大父房，不知世次 | 林牙蕭和尚。 | 北院樞密使革。 | |||||||||
| 北院宣徽使特末。 | |||||||||||
| 太祖淳欽皇后父月碗 | 阿扎豁只月碗。 | 北府宰相阿古只。 | 北府宰相排押。 | ||||||||
| 世宗懷節皇后父阿古只 | 蘭陵郡王恆德。 | 蘭陵郡王匹敵。 | |||||||||
| 東路統軍柳。 | |||||||||||
| 道宗宣懿皇后父惠 | 蘭陵郡王某。 | 齊國王某。 | 北院樞密使惠。 | 西北招討使慈氏奴。 | |||||||
| 兀古匿。 | 蒲離不。 | ||||||||||
| 興宗仁懿皇后父孝穆 | 國舅詳穩陶瑰。 | 大丞相孝穆。 | 北院樞密使阿剌。 | 趙國王別里剌。 | 蘭陵郡王酬斡。 | ||||||
| 北院宣徽使撒八。 | |||||||||||
| 北院樞密使孝先。 | 使相撒磨。 | 蘭陵郡王得里底。 | 磨撒。 | ||||||||
| 北院樞密使孝忠。 | 南院樞密使阿速。 | ||||||||||
| 北府宰相孝友。 | |||||||||||
| 樞密副使胡睹。 | |||||||||||
| 宰相撻列。 | 龍虎衛上將軍忽古。 | ||||||||||
| 臨海節度使拔剌。 | |||||||||||
| 太宗靖安皇后父室魯 | 駙馬都尉室魯。 | ||||||||||
| 勉思。 | |||||||||||
| 少父房，不知世次 | 勞古，聖宗詩友。 | 南院樞密使樸。 | |||||||||
| 中書令乙薛。 | |||||||||||
| 始平節度使訛都斡。 | |||||||||||
| 國舅詳穩雙谷。 | 南京統軍迭里得。黃八。 | ||||||||||
| 聖宗仁德皇后父隗因 | 不知房族世次 | 隗因。 | |||||||||
| 國舅族，不知世次 | 國舅、郡王高九。 | 北府宰相朮哲。 | 蘭陵郡王撻不也。 | ||||||||
| 漢人行宮都部署韓家。 | |||||||||||
| 國舅別部，不知世次 | 北府宰相只魯。 | 八世孫，世選北府宰相塔列葛。 | |||||||||
| 七世孫臺哂。 | |||||||||||
| 戚屬，不知世次 | 令穩塔列。 | 總知軍國海璃。 | 烏古節度圖玉。 | 南京統軍雙古。 | 敵烈統軍訛都斡。 |