Song, Liao, and Jin · Official

Xiao Pu 蕭樸

Xiāo Pǔ

Attested AD 983 - AD 1035

Passages
17
Chapters
4
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Xiao Pu as an administrator, aristocrat, official, and statesman. This record brings together 17 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Xiao Pu 蕭樸 Xiāo Pǔ
Title Northern Prefecture chancellor 北府宰相
Title Prince of Chu 楚王
Title Prince of Han 韓王
Title Prince of Heng 恒王
Title Prince of Lanling 蘭陵郡王
Title Prince of Qi 齊王
Title Prince of Wei 魏王
Given Pu
Surname Xiao
Personal name Xiao Pu 蕭樸 Xiāo Pǔ
Personal Xiao Pu 蕭樸
Courtesy name Yanning 延寧 Yánníng

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Aristocrat
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 太平三年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1023
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0079
  • Source Date: Text: 太平四年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 1024
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0080
  • Source Date: Text: 太平5年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 1025
  • Source Date: Text: 聖宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 1031
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:061:s0127
  • Source Date: Text: 重熙初 · Western Year: AD 1032
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0088
  • Source Date: Text: 重熙四年 · Western Year: AD 1035
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0090
  • Source Date: Text: 開泰初 · Western Year: AD 1012
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0075
  • Source Date: Text: 開泰間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1012 · End: AD 1021
    Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:091:s0089

Family

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  • Parent of Duola (鐸剌)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Child of Laogu (勞古)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Origins and identity

  • Label: clan of the empress's father's younger branch / 國舅少父房之族
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0071

Career and standing

  • Label: guardian Grand Tutor of the Heir Apparent / 太子太傅 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太平三年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1023
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0079
  • Label: chief councilor of the Northern Prefecture / 北府宰相 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太平四年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 1024
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0080
  • Label: garrison commander of the Eastern Capital / 東京留守 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙初 · Western Year: AD 1032
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0088
  • Label: seal-and-plaque gentleman / 牌印郎君 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開泰初 · Western Year: AD 1012
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0075
  • Label: acting charge of transport affairs / 權知轉運事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0075
  • Label: director of the Southern Academy / 南院承旨 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0075
  • Label: military commissioner of the Xingguo Army / 興國軍節度使 · Action: demoted
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0078
  • Label: Secretariat Director / 中書令 · Action: granted-additional
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0083
  • Label: Commissioner of the Bureau of Military Affairs / 樞密使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0127
  • Label: Deployment Court affairs / 部署院事 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0078
  • Label: Northern Prefecture chancellor / 北府宰相 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0079
  • Label: Privy Commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0089
  • Label: commissioner of the Northern Academy / 北院樞密使 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太平四年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 1024
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0080
  • Label: commissioner of the Southern Academy / 南院樞密使 · Action: promoted
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0089
  • Label: left yilibi / 左夷離畢 · Action: promoted
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0077
  • Label: Southern Face linya / 南面林牙 · Action: recalled
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0078
  • Label: Southern Face linya / 南面林牙 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0075
  • Title: Prince of Heng / 恒王 · Action: advanced
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0083
  • Title: Prince of Wei / 魏王 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙四年 · Western Year: AD 1035
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0090
  • Title: Prince of Lanling / 蘭陵郡王 · Action: enfeoffed
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0083
  • Title: Prince of Qi / 齊王 · Action: posthumously-granted
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0091
  • Title: Prince of Han / 韓王 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙初 · Western Year: AD 1032
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0088
  • Title: Prince of Chu / 楚王 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0089
  • Status: demotion-for-neglect-through-drink · Action: entered
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0078

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: despised Hezhuo for deathbed advice not to recommend superiors · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0080
  • Assessment: grieved over empress calumny to vomiting blood · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0109

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 61Volume 61 Treatises 31: Punishment and Law 1 · 1 passage
History of Liao, Chapter 80Volume 80 Biographies 10: Zhang Jian, Xing Baopu, Ma Dechen, Xiao Pu, Yelu Eight Brothers · 13 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 81Volume 81 Biographies 11: Yelu Shilu, Wang Jizhong, Xiao Xiaozhong, Chen Zhaogun, Xiao Hezhuo · 2 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 91Volume 91 Biographies 21: Yelu Hanba, Yelu Tanggu, Xiao Paizhe, Yelu Jue, Yelu Pulidu · 1 passage