Sui and Tang · Tribal Leader

Bayegu 拔野古

Báyěgǔ

Attested AD 648 - AD 648

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Bayegu was a Tribal Leader.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 648 唐太宗时
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passages 149-150, 153
AD 648 太宗二十二年
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 159

Origins and identity

claimed founding ancestor of the Li/Shatuo line in their self-account
Negated false
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passages 149-150

Career and standing

commander of the Shatuo prefecture 沙陀府都督
AD 648 唐太宗时 · Claimed appointed · Mode named-source-report Source Work 其自序
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 150

Events and relationships

Submitted in Taizong year 22
AD 648 太宗二十二年 · Political · Submitter · With Emperor Taizong of Tang (唐太宗)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 159
Relation Contemporary of Zhuye tribe · historian denies he is the Zhuye ancestor
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 153

Source notes

Bayegu was a contemporary of Zhuye, not their founding ancestor
Field ancestry · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 153

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 4Volume 4 Later Tang Annals 1: Zhuangzong 1 · 4 passages

李氏之先，盖出于西突厥，本号朱邪，至其后世，别自号曰沙陀，而以朱邪为姓，拔野古为始祖。 The Li line traced its roots to the Western Turks under the tribal name Zhuye. Later generations styled themselves Shatuo, kept Zhuye as their clan designation, and named Bayegu as their forebear.

其自序云：沙陀者，北庭之碛也，当唐太宗时，破西突厥诸部，分同罗、仆骨之人于此碛，置沙陀府，而以其始祖拔野古为都督； In their own telling, Shatuo was the desert tract of Beiting: when Taizong crushed the Western Turks he resettled Tongluo and Pugu clans there, founded a Shatuo prefecture, and installed Bayegu as its commander—

夷狄无姓氏，朱邪，部族之号耳，拔野古与朱邪同时人，非其始祖，而唐太宗时，未尝有沙陀府也。 Steppe peoples did not use family names; Zhuye was only a tribal label. Bayegu lived in the same age as the Zhuye, not centuries before them, and Taizong’s reign never saw a “Shatuo prefecture.”

太宗二十二年，已降拔野古，其明年，阿史那贺鲁叛。 Bayegu submitted in Taizong’s twenty-second year; Helu of the Ashina rose the year after.