Yuan · Chancellor

Toqto'a 脫脫

Tuōtuō

Attested AD 1339 - AD 1354

Passages
25
Chapters
6
Histories
3

Overview

The translated histories identify Toqto'a as an editor, historian, named individual, and official. This record brings together 25 passages from 6 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodYuan

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Toqto'a 脫脫 Tuōtuō
Title Chancellor 丞相
Title Darqan 答剌罕
Title Right Chancellor of the Central Secretariat 中書右丞相
Personal name Toghto 脫脫 Tuotuo
Native language or transliterated Toghto 脫脫
Personal Toqto 脫脫
Personal name Toqto'a 脫脫 Tuōtuō
Personal name Toqto'a 脫脫 Tuotuo

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Editor
  • Historian
  • Named Individual
  • Official
  • Statesman

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  • Label: Overall chief compiler / 都總裁 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:117:s0037
  • Label: Grand Tutor / 太傅 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至正九年 · Western Year: AD 1349
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:111:s0102, yuanshi:111:s0100
  • Label: Grand Tutor / 太傅 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至正八年 · Western Year: AD 1348
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:111:s0097, yuanshi:111:s0095
  • Label: Grand Tutor / 太傅 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至正十一年 · Western Year: AD 1351
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:111:s0112, yuanshi:111:s0110
  • Label: Grand Preceptor / 太師 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至正十三年 · Western Year: AD 1353
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:111:s0121, yuanshi:111:s0120
  • Label: Grand Preceptor / 太師 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至正十二年 · Western Year: AD 1352
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:111:s0116, yuanshi:111:s0115
  • Label: Grand Preceptor / 太師 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至正十四年 · Western Year: AD 1354
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:111:s0126, yuanshi:111:s0125
  • Label: Grand Tutor / 太傅 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至正十年 · Western Year: AD 1350
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:111:s0107, yuanshi:111:s0105
  • Label: Chief Director-in-Chief / 都總裁 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 領史事…彙粹為書 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1343 · End: AD 1345
    Explicit · songshi:497:s0021
  • Label: Former Right Chancellor / 前右丞相 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 領史事…彙粹為書 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1343 · End: AD 1345
    Explicit · songshi:497:s0021
  • Label: chancellor / 相 · Action: held
    Explicit · yuanshi:117:s0101, yuanshi:117:s0133
  • Label: Director of the Classics Lectures / 領經筵事 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:117:s0002
  • Label: Grand Preceptor with protocol equal to the Three Excellencies / 開府儀同三司 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:117:s0002
  • Label: overseer of national history / general chief compiler / 監修國史領都總裁 · Action: held
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0096
  • Label: Recorder of Weighty Affairs of Army and State / 錄軍國重事 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:117:s0002
  • Label: Right Chancellor of the Central Secretariat / 中書右丞相 · Action: held
    Explicit · yuanshi:066:s0217
  • Label: Right Chancellor of the Secretariat / 中書右丞相 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:117:s0002, liaoshi:117:s0037
  • Label: Right Grand Councilor / 右丞相 · Action: held
    Explicit · yuanshi:199:s0078
  • Label: Supervisor of the National History / 監修國史 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:117:s0002
  • Label: Supreme Pillar of State / 上柱國 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:117:s0002
  • Label: Chancellor / 丞相 · Action: restored
    Explicit · yuanshi:066:s0006
  • Title: Darqan / 答剌罕 · Action: granted · Hereditary: true
    Explicit · yuanshi:066:s0017
  • Status: former-right-chancellor · Action: held
    Explicit · songshi:497:s0021
  • Action: declared-innocent-and-restored-to-command · Target Person Id: Tiemu'er Buhua (帖木兒不花)
    Explicit · yuanshi:117:s0133
  • Action: established-innocence-and-restored-to-command · Target Person Id: Kuanchepuhua (寬徹普化)
    Explicit · yuanshi:117:s0101

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History of Liao, Chapter 117Appendix: History of the Liao Table · 5 passages
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開府儀同三司、上柱國、錄軍國重事、中書右丞相、監修國史、領經筵事臣脫脫言：竊惟天文莫驗於璣衡，人文莫證於簡策。 Your subject Toqto'a, Grand Preceptor with protocol equal to the Three Excellencies, Supreme Pillar of State, Recorder of Weighty Affairs of Army and State, Right Chancellor of the Secretariat, Supervisor of the National History, and Director of the Classics Lectures, respectfully observes: Heaven can be verified only through the armillary sphere and its instruments; human affairs can be established only through the written records of history.
於是命臣脫脫以中書右丞相領都總裁，中書平章政事臣鐵睦爾達世、中書右丞今平章政事臣賀惟一、御史中丞今翰林學士承旨臣張起巖，翰林學士臣歐陽玄、侍御史今集賢侍講學士兼國子祭酒臣呂思誠、翰林侍講學士臣揭傒斯奉命為總裁官。 Thereupon Your Majesty appointed your subject Toqto'a, Right Chancellor of the Secretariat, as overall chief compiler, and ordered the Secretariat Councilor Tiemuer Dashi, Right Vice Chancellor and now Councilor He Wei, Censor-in-Chief and now Hanlin Expositor-in-Chief Zhang Qiyan, Hanlin Academician Ouyang Xuan, Attending Censor and now Academician Lecturer of the Hall of Gathered Worthies and Concurrent Director of the Imperial Academy Lü Sicheng, and Hanlin Lecturer Jie Xisi to serve as chief compilers.
History of Song, Chapter 497Volume 497: Appendix: History of Song Table Revision of Official Titles · 1 passage
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命臣阿魯圖、左丞相臣別兒怯不花領史事，前右丞相臣脫脫為都總裁，平章政事臣帖穆爾達世、御史大夫臣惟一、翰林學士承旨臣起巖、臣玄、治書御史臣好文、禮部尚書臣沂、崇文大監臣宗瑞為總裁官，平章政事臣納麟、臣顏、前中書右丞 臣達世睦邇、左丞 臣守簡、參議 臣岳柱、臣住、臣思謙、郎中 臣斡欒、臣思立等協恭董治，史官工部侍郎 臣斡玉倫徒，秘書卿 臣泰不華、太常僉院 臣杜秉彝、翰林直學士 臣宋褧，國子司業 臣王思誠、臣澤民、集賢待制 臣干文傳、翰林待制 臣張瑾、臣師道、宣文閣鑒書博士 臣麥文貴、監察御史 臣余闕、太常博士 臣李齊、翰林修撰 臣劉聞、太醫院都事 臣賈魯、國子助教 臣馮福可、太廟署令 臣陳祖仁、西臺御史 臣趙中、翰林應奉 臣王儀、臣貞、秘書著作左郎 臣譚慥、翰林編修 臣張翥、國子助教 臣吳當、經筵檢討 臣危素編劘分局，彙粹為書。 Your Majesty appointed Aruqtai and Left Chancellor Bayan Qutlugh to direct the history project, with former Right Chancellor Toqto'a as chief director-in-chief, and Chief Directors including Chief Councillors Temür Dash, Censor-in-Chief Weiyi, Hanlin Academicians Expositor Qiyan and Xuan, Investigating Censor Haowen, Minister of Rites Yi, and Director of the Directorate of Education Zongrui; together with Chief Councillors Nalin and Yan, former Right Vice Director of the Central Secretariat Dashimur, Left Vice Director Shoujian, Counsellors Yuezhu, Zhu, and Siqian, Bureau Directors Olon and Sili, and others to assist in reverent supervision; and history officers including Vice Minister of Works Oluntur, Secretary Director Taibuhua, Vice Director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices Du Bingyi, Hanlin Academician Song Jiong, Rectors of the Directorate of Education Wang Sicheng and Zemin, Awaiting Editor-in-Chief of the Hall of Gathered Worthies Gan Wenchuan, Hanlin Awaiting Editors Zhang Jin and Shidao, Doctor of the Xuanwen Pavilion Mai Wengui, Investigating Censor Yu Que, Doctor of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices Li Qi, Hanlin Compiler Liu Wen, Chief Administrator of the Imperial Medical Institute Jia Lu, Instructors of the Directorate of Education Feng Fuke, Director of the Imperial Ancestral Temple Office Chen Zuren, Western Censor Zhao Zhong, Hanlin Attendants Wang Yi and Zhen, Left Secretary Compiler Tan Zao, Hanlin Compiler Zhang Zhu, Instructor of the Directorate of Education Wu Dang, and Classics Lectures Reviewer Wei Su to edit in separate bureaus and gather the whole into a book.
History of Yuan, Chapter 66Volume 66 Treatises 19: Rivers and Canals 3 · 8 passages
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帝遣貴臣報祭河伯，召魯還京師，論功超拜榮祿大夫、集賢大學士，其宣力諸臣遷賞有差，賜丞相脫脫世襲答剌罕之號，特命翰林學士承旨歐陽玄制河平碑文，以旌勞績。 The emperor sent high officials to report the sacrifice to the River Lord and summoned Jia Lu back to the capital. For his service Jia Lu was promoted beyond the usual grades to Grand Master for Glorious Emolument and Grand Academician of the Hall of Gathered Worthies; other officials who had labored on the project received promotions and rewards in varying measure; Chancellor Toghto was granted the hereditary title of Darqan; and Hanlin Academician Ouyang Xuan was commissioned to compose the Stele on Pacifying the River, to commemorate the achievement.
History of Yuan, Chapter 111Volume 111 Tables 6: Three Ducal Ministers 2 · 7 passages
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History of Yuan, Chapter 117Volume 117 Biographies 4: Belgutei, Jochi, Tula, Yahudou, Kuanchepuhua, Tiemu'er Buhua · 2 passages
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History of Yuan, Chapter 199Volume 199 Biographies 86: Recluses · 2 passages
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