Batu (拔都) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Batu as a general and royal family member. This record brings together 3 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	Batu	拔都	Bádū
Title	Prince Batu	諸王拔都

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:002:s0088

Roles

General
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 七年乙未 · Western Year: AD 1235
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0088
Source Date: Text: 八年丙申 · Western Year: AD 1236
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0101

Career and standing

Place: Pingyang Prefecture / 平陽府 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年丙申 · Western Year: AD 1236
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0101

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: western campaign with Güyük and Möngke · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七年乙未 · Western Year: AD 1235
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0088

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 2Volume 2 Annals 2: Taizong, Dingzong · 3 passages

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遣諸王拔都及皇子貴由、皇侄蒙哥征西域，皇子闊端征秦、鞏，皇子曲出及胡土虎伐宋，唐古征高麗。 Prince Batu, Prince Güyük, and the imperial nephew Möngke were sent to campaign in the Western Regions; Prince Köten against Qin and Gong; Prince Kölü and Hutuhu against Song; and Tangu against Goryeo.

詔以真定民戶奉太后湯沐，中原諸州民戶分賜諸王、貴戚、斡魯朵：拔都，平陽府； An edict assigned Zhending households to support the Empress Dowager's private revenues and divided Central Plains households among princes, noble kin, and ordus: Batu received Pingyang Prefecture;

又從諸王拔都西征，次阿速境，攻圍木柵山寨，以三十餘人與戰，帝及憲宗與焉。 He also marched with Batu on the western campaign. In As territory he invested a palisaded mountain fort and, with little more than thirty men, went into the fight — Güyük and Möngke were both there.