Aguda (阿骨打) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Aguda as a military officer, rebel, and tribal leader. This record brings together 8 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Aguda	阿骨打	Āgǔdǎ
Personal name	Aguda	阿骨打

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0027

Roles

Military Officer
Rebel
Tribal Leader

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾統元年 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1101
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:027:s0027
Source Date: Text: 天慶三年 · Western Year: AD 1113
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0197
Source Date: Text: 天慶二年 · Western Year: AD 1112
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0168, liaoshi:027:s0170, liaoshi:027:s0182
Source Date: Text: 天慶四年 · Western Year: AD 1114
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0215

Family

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Child of Elder brother of Yangge (楊割之兄)
Kinship Term: same father as Wugusun / 弟 · Parentage: biological
Sibling of Wugusun (烏雅束)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: full
Sibling of Wukimai (吳乞買)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger
Sibling of Nianhan (粘罕)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger
Sibling of Hushe (胡舍)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger

Origins and identity

Label: Jurchen / 女直
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0026, liaoshi:027:s0027

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: raised-troops
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0182
Kind: ritual · Role: participant · Action: refused-to-dance · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天慶二年頭魚宴 · Western Year: AD 1112
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0168, liaoshi:027:s0169
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: sudden-dash · Place: Xian Prefecture / 咸州
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0197

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0027

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 27Volume 27 Annals 27: Emperor Tianzuo 1 · 8 passages

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是歲楊割死，傳于兄之子烏雅束，束死，其弟阿骨打襲。 That year Yangge died and the post passed to his elder brother's son Wugusun; when Wugusun died, his younger brother Aguda succeeded.

獨阿骨打辭以不能。 Aguda alone declined, saying he could not.

他日，上密謂樞密使蕭奉先曰：「前日之燕，阿骨打意氣雄豪，顧視不常，可托以邊事誅之。 Another day the emperor secretly told Privy Commissioner Xiao Fengxian, "At the banquet the other day Aguda's spirit was bold and heroic and his glances were unusual; he could be entrusted with a border affair and executed.

初，阿骨打混同江宴歸，疑上知其異志，遂稱兵，先並旁近部族。 Initially, when Aguda returned from the Huntong River banquet he suspected the emperor knew his other intent and thereupon raised troops, first annexing nearby divisions.

女直趙三、阿鶻產拒之，阿骨打虜其家屬。 Jurchen Zhao San and Ahechan resisted; Aguda captured their families.

後數召，阿骨打竟稱疾不至。 After several summonses Aguda in the end claimed illness and did not come.

阿骨打一日率五百騎突至咸州，吏民大驚。 One day Aguda led five hundred horsemen in a sudden dash to Xian Prefecture; officials and people were greatly alarmed.

阿骨打不屈，送所司問狀。 Aguda would not yield and was sent to the relevant office for questioning.