Xiao Hugu (蕭忽古) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xiao Hugu as an assassin, attendant, military officer, and soldier. This record brings together 11 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xiao Hugu	蕭忽古	Xiāo Hūgǔ
Courtesy	Asilian	阿斯憐	Āsīlián
Given	Hugu	忽古	Hūgǔ
Surname	Xiao	蕭	Xiao
Personal	Xiao Hugu	蕭忽古
Personal	Xiao Hugu	蕭忽古	Xiao Hūgǔ

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0083, liaoshi:099:s0058, liaoshi:110:s0024

Roles

Assassin
Attendant
Military Officer
Soldier

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0071

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:110:s0024, liaoshi:110:s0018
Source Date: Text: 大康間太子之獄 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1075
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:072:s0083
Source Date: Text: 三年夏 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1077
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0098
Source Date: Text: 大康三年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1077
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0069
Source Date: Text: 乾統初 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1110
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0072
Source Date: Text: 咸雍二年 · Western Year: AD 1066
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:091:s0060
Source Date: Text: 咸雍初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1065 · End: AD 1074
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0060

Family

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Spouse of Daughter of Yelu Zhaosan
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife

Career and standing

Label: imperial guard / 護衛 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0064
Label: General-in-Chief of the Dragon-Tiger Guard / 龍虎衛上將軍 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾統初 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1110
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0072
Status: exile · Action: entered
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0070
Status: imprisoned · Action: sentenced
Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0083

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0083, liaoshi:099:s0058

Events and relationships

Kind: assassination · Role: would-be-assassin · Action: ambush-failed · Other Person Id: Yelü Yixin (耶律乙辛)
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0024, liaoshi:110:s0025
Kind: assassination · Role: would-be-assassin · Action: ambushed · Other Person Id: Yelü Yixin (耶律乙辛)
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0066, liaoshi:099:s0067
Kind: military · Role: soldier · Action: camel-vault-display · Other Person Id: Yelü Zhaosan (耶律趙三)
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0062
Kind: political · Role: conspirator · Action: plotted-to-kill · Other Person Id: Yelü Yixin (耶律乙辛)
Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0083

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 2: Imperial Family: Yi Zongbei, the Foreign Emperor Zhang Su, Shun Zongjun, Jin Wangaoluwo · 2 passages

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會護衛蕭忽古謀害乙辛，事覺，下獄。 When guard Xiao Hugu plotted to kill Yixin, the plot was exposed and he was thrown into prison.

乃與同知北院宣徽事蕭特裏特謀構陷太子，陰令右護衛太保耶律查剌誣告都宮使耶律撒剌、知院蕭速撒、護衛蕭忽古謀廢立。 He and Associate Commissioner of the Northern Bureau of Palace Attendants Xiao Telite then plotted to frame the crown prince, secretly ordering Right Guard Commissioner Yelü Chala to accuse Palace Director Yelü Sala, Commissioner Xiao Susa, and guard Xiao Hugu of plotting a coup.

History of Liao, Chapter 91Volume 91 Biographies 21: Yelu Hanba, Yelu Tanggu, Xiao Paizhe, Yelu Jue, Yelu Pulidu · 1 passage

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咸雍二年，拜北府宰相，為北院樞密使耶律乙辛所忌，誣朮哲與護衛蕭忽古等謀害乙辛。 In the second year of Xianyong he was appointed northern chancellery chancellor; Yelu Yixin, northern court privy commissioner, envied him and accused Paizhe of plotting with the guardsman Xiao Hugu and others to harm Yixin.

History of Liao, Chapter 99Volume 99 Biographies 29: Xiao Yanshou, Yelu Sala, Xiao Susa, Yelu Tabuye, Xiao Tabuye, Xiao Hugu, Yelu Shiliu · 6 passages

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蕭巖壽耶律撒剌蕭速撒耶律撻不也蕭撻不也蕭忽古耶律石柳 Xiao Yanshou, Yelu Sala, Xiao Susa, Yelu Tabuye, Xiao Tabuye, Xiao Hugu, and Yelu Shiliu

蕭忽古，字阿斯憐，性忠直，趫捷有力。 Xiao Hugu, whose style was Asilian, was loyal and upright, quick and powerfully built.

趙三問左右誰能此，忽古被重鎧而出，手不及峰，一躍而上，使者大駭。 Zhaosan asked who among his men could match the feat; Hugu stepped forward in heavy armor, could not reach the hump with his hands, yet vaulted up in one bound—the envoys were astounded.

帝聞，召為護衛。 When the emperor heard of this he summoned Hugu into the imperial guard.

忽古伏於橋下，伺其過，欲殺之。 Hugu hid beneath a bridge to ambush him as he passed.

及太子廢徙於上京，召忽古至，殺之。 When the crown prince was deposed and sent to Shangjing, Hugu was summoned there and executed.

History of Liao, Chapter 110Volume 110 Biographies 40: Treacherous Ministers 1 · 2 passages

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時護衛蕭忽古知乙辛奸狀，伏橋下，欲殺之。 The guardsman Xiao Hugu, who knew Yixin's treachery, lay in ambush beneath a bridge intending to kill him.

三年夏，護衛蕭忽古等謀殺乙辛，事覺下獄。 In the summer of the third year the guardsman Xiao Hugu and others plotted to assassinate Yixin; when the plot was discovered they were thrown into prison.