Bolu Temür (孛羅帖木兒)

Overview

The translated histories identify Bolu Temür as a military officer, rebel, and warlord. This record brings together 5 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	Bolu Temür	孛羅帖木兒	Bolu Tiemuer
Personal name	Bolu Temür	孛羅帖木兒	Bolu Tiemuer

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:114:s0250

Roles

Military Officer
Rebel
Warlord

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died / 死
Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0255

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 至正二十五年三月 · Lunar Month: 3 · Western Year: AD 1365
Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0252
Source Date: Text: 至正二十五年四月庚寅 · Lunar Month: 4 · Sexagenary Day: 庚寅 · Western Year: AD 1365
Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0253
Source Date: Text: 至正二十四年七月 · Lunar Month: 7 · Western Year: AD 1364
Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0250

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: yuan · Relation: rebelled-within
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Works and attributed material

Kind: forged-document · Role: forger · Other Person Id: Empress Wonjeonghodu (Ki) (完者忽都皇后奇氏) · Statement: forged letter in the empress's hand summoning the crown prince
Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0253

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: attacker · Action: attacked-palace · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至正二十四年七月 · Lunar Month: 7 · Western Year: AD 1364
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Kind: political · Role: instigator · Action: sought-to-exile-empress · Other Person Id: Empress Wonjeonghodu (Ki) (完者忽都皇后奇氏)
Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0251
Relation: incited · Person Id: Wu Qizong (武起宗)
Explicit · yuanshi:114:s0251

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 114Volume 114 Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts 1 · 5 passages

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二十四年七月，孛羅帖木兒稱兵犯闕，皇太子出奔冀寧，下令討孛羅帖木兒。 In the seventh month of the twenty-fourth year Bolu Temür raised troops and attacked the palace; the crown prince fled to Jining and issued orders to campaign against Bolu Temür.

孛羅帖木兒怒，嗾監察御史武起宗言后外撓國政，奏帝宜遷后出於外，帝不答。 Bolu Temür was enraged and incited Supervising Censor Wu Qizong to say that the empress interfered in state affairs from outside; he memorialized that the emperor should transfer the empress outside, but the emperor did not reply.

四月庚寅，孛羅帖木兒逼后還宮，取印章，偽為后書召太子。 On the gengyin day of the fourth month Bolu Temür forced the empress back to the palace, took the seals, and forged a letter in the empress's hand summoning the crown prince.

后仍回幽所，后又數納美女於孛羅帖木兒，至百日，始還宮。 The empress still returned to the place of confinement; later she repeatedly presented beautiful women to Bolu Temür, and only after a hundred days did she return to the palace.

及孛羅帖木兒死，召皇太子還京師，后傳旨令廓擴帖木兒以兵擁皇太子入城，欲脅帝禪位。 When Bolu Temür died, the crown prince was summoned back to the capital; the empress transmitted an order for Köke Temür to escort the crown prince into the city with troops, intending to coerce the emperor to abdicate.