Emperor Daozong of Liao (道宗)

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor Daozong of Liao as a royal family member and ruler. This record brings together 6 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	Emperor Daozong of Liao	道宗	Daozong
Temple	Daozong	道宗	Daozong
Title	Emperor	皇帝

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:023:s0001, liaoshi:023:s0056

Roles

Royal Family Member
Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 大康元年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1075
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:023:s0067
Source Date: Text: 大康二年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1076
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:023:s0095
Source Date: Text: 大康三年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1077
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:023:s0121
Source Date: Text: 大康四年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 1078
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:023:s0158
Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 1073
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:023:s0034
Source Date: Text: 八年 · Western Year: AD 1072
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:023:s0002, liaoshi:023:s0004
Source Date: Text: 十年 · Western Year: AD 1074
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:023:s0048

Family

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Spouse of Empress Xiao (皇后蕭氏)
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: formed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康二年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1076
Ancestor of Yelü Yanxi (延禧)
Kinship Term: imperial grandson / 皇孫 · Generation Distance: 2
Kinship Term: imperial grandson / 皇孫 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
Parent of Yelü Jun (耶律浚)
Kinship Term: crown prince / 皇太子 · Parentage: biological
Kinship Term: crown prince / 皇太子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Empress Renyi of Xiao (仁懿皇后蕭氏)
Kinship Term: empress dowager / 皇太后 · Parentage: biological
Kinship Term: empress dowager / 皇太后 · Parentage: biological
Spouse of Empress (皇后)
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage · Relationship State: ended
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: primary-marriage
Parent of Princess of Zhao (趙國公主)
Kinship Term: imperial daughter / 皇女 · Parentage: biological
Kinship Term: imperial daughter / 皇女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: ruled
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0001

Works and attributed material

Work: Five Eulogies on the Avatamsaka Sutra / 華嚴經五頌 · Relation: author
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0022
Kind: edict · Role: author
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0057, liaoshi:023:s0082, liaoshi:023:s0117

Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: author · Action: composed · Work: Five Eulogies on the Avatamsaka Sutra / 華嚴經五頌 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年 · Western Year: AD 1072
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0022
Kind: examination · Role: examiner · Action: set-topics · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十年六月戊辰 · Western Year: AD 1074
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0056
Kind: hunting · Role: actor · Action: spared-fawn · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康二年八月庚寅 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1076
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0113

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 23Volume 23 Annals 23: Daozong 3 · 6 passages

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道宗三 Daozong, Part Three

六月戊辰，親出題試進士。 On wuchen day of the sixth month the Emperor personally set topics to test jinshi.

夏六月乙酉朔，上大行皇太后尊謚曰仁懿皇后。 On the yiyou new moon of the sixth summer month the posthumous honorific for the late Empress Dowager was Empress Rende.

八月庚寅，獵，遇麛失其母，憫之，不射。 On gengyin day of the eighth month the court hunted; encountering a fawn that had lost its mother, the Emperor pitied it and did not shoot.

十一月甲戌，上欲觀《起居註》，修註郎不攧及忽突堇等不進，各杖二百，罷之。 On jiaxu day of the eleventh month the Emperor wished to view the 《Diary of Actions and Repose》; revising annotator Budian and Hutujin and others did not present it; each was beaten two hundred strokes and dismissed.

乙亥，北院樞密使耶律乙辛奏，右護衛太保查剌等告知北院樞密使事蕭速撒等八人謀立皇太子，上以無狀，不治，出速撒等三人補外，護衛撒撥等六人各鞭百餘，徙於邊。 On yihai day Northern Court privy commissioner Yelü Yixin memorialized that Right Defender of the Guard grand guardian Zhala and others reported that associate Northern Court privy commissioner Xiao Susa and eight others plotted to install the crown prince; the Emperor said it was groundless and did not punish; three including Susa were sent out to fill external posts; six including guard Sapo were each flogged more than a hundred strokes and exiled to the border.