Five Dynasties · Ruler

Abaoji 阿保機

Attested AD 907 - AD 926

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Abaoji was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 907 to AD 926 阿保機
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 49, passage 61

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Li Zanhua (李讚華)
eldest son 長子 · paternal line
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 49, passage 61

Places and affiliations

Polity Khitan Liao 契丹遼 · Relation Associated with
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 49, passage 61

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 49Volume 49 Book of Later Tang 25: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage

又言夫人夏氏，後嫁李讚華，所謂東丹王，即阿保機長子，性酷毒，侍婢微過，即以刀刲火灼。 It also mentions Lady Xia, who later married Li Zanhua—the so-called Prince of Dongdan, eldest son of Abaoji—who was cruel and vicious; for the slightest fault of a serving maid he would cut her with a knife or burn her with fire.