Song, Liao, and Jin · Liao Affinal Official

Shuanggu 雙古

Shuānggǔ

Attested AD 916 - AD 1125

Passages
5
Chapters
5
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Shuanggu as an administrator, aristocrat, family member, and general. This record brings together 5 passages from 5 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Shuanggu 雙古 Shuānggǔ
Descriptive kinship His father Shuanggu 父雙古
Personal Shuanggu 雙古 Shuanggu
Personal name Shuanggu 雙古 Shuanggu
Personal name Shuanggu 雙古 Shuānggǔ

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Aristocrat
  • Family Member
  • General
  • Military Officer
  • Official
  • Tribal Leader

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:097:s0045, liaoshi:097:s0053
  • Source Date: Text: 大康元年冬十月 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1075
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:023:s0089
  • Source Date: Text: 開泰二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1013
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:093:s0128
  • Source Date: Text: 太平中 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Western Interval: Start: AD 1021 · End: AD 1031
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:114:s0031, liaoshi:114:s0033
  • Western Interval: Start: AD 916 · End: AD 1125 · Source Date: Text:
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:067:s0397

Family

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Career and standing

  • Label: Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Capital / 南京統軍 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:067:s0397
  • Label: imperial uncle's detail-stable / 國舅詳穩 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:114:s0031
  • Label: Southern Capital Military Commissioner / 南京統軍使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:093:s0128
  • Status: surrendered · Action: entered
    Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0089

Places and affiliations

Events and relationships

  • Kind: administrative · Role: governor · Action: guarded-western-frontier · Duration: more than twenty years
    Explicit · liaoshi:097:s0045

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: strict governance; did not pursue profit; praised by contemporaries · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:097:s0045

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 23Volume 23 Annals 23: Daozong 3 · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 67Volume 67 Tables 5: Families of Imperial Consorts · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 93Volume 93 Biographies 23: Xiao Hui, Xiao Yulu, Xiao Tuyu, Yelu Duozhen · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 97Volume 97 Biographies 27: Yelu Wotela, Hai Li, Dou Jingyong, Yelu Yinji, Yang Ji, Zhao Hui, Wang Guan, Yelu Xisun · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 114Volume 114 Biographies 44: Rebellious Officials 3 · 1 passage