Xiao Susa (蕭速撒) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xiao Susa as a military officer, named individual, and official. This record brings together 17 passages from 5 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xiao Susa	蕭速撒	Xiāo Sùsā
Personal	Susa	速撒	Sùsā
Personal name	Susa	速撒	Susa
Given	Susa	速撒	Sùsǎ
Personal	Susa	速撒	Sùsǎ
Courtesy	Tulujin	禿魯堇	Tūlǔjǐn
Surname	Xiao	蕭	Xiāo
Surname	Xiao	蕭	Xiao
Personal name	Xiao Susa	蕭速撒	Xiao Susa
Personal	Xiao Susa	蕭速撒
Personal	Xiao Susa	蕭速撒	Xiao Sùsǎ

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:023:s0109
Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:062:s0062, liaoshi:072:s0085, liaoshi:099:s0036, liaoshi:110:s0044

Roles

Military Officer
Named Individual
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Authority Person Id: Hongji (洪基)
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0046
Manner: executed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康三年六月癸未 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1077
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0138
Manner: executed / 誅
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0044

Attested activity

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:s0085
Source Date: Text: 大康二年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1076
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0042
Source Date: Text: 大康二年六月丁未 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1076
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:023:s0109
Source Date: Text: 大康三年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1077
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:023:s0131, liaoshi:023:s0134, liaoshi:023:s0138, liaoshi:023:s0143, liaoshi:062:s0062, liaoshi:110:s0044
Source Date: Text: 乾統間 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1110
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0048
Source Date: Text: 清寧中 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Western Interval: Start: AD 1055 · End: AD 1064
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0040
Source Date: Text: 咸雍十年 · Western Year: AD 1074
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0041
Source Date: Text: 重熙間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1032 · End: AD 1055
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0038

Family

Kinship Role: sons · Note: 速撒等諸子 · Quantity: plural
Explicit · liaoshi:062:s0067
Kinship Role: sons · Quantity: 諸子
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0143

Career and standing

Label: acting commissioner of the Northern Bureau / 知北院樞密使事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康二年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1076
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0042
Label: administrator of Northern Court privy affairs / 知北院樞密使事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0109
Label: military commissioner at Shangjing / 上京留守 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0045
Label: vice commissioner of the Northern Bureau / 北院樞密副使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0040
Label: administrator of Privy Council affairs / 知樞密院事 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:062:s0062
Label: Commissioner / 知院 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0085
Label: Grand Guardian of the Right Imperial Guard / 右護衛太保 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0038
Label: military commissioner of the Zhangguo Army / 彰國軍節度使 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0040
Label: Northern Court associate privy commissioner / 北院樞密副使 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0109
Label: Northern Imperial Scribe / 北面林牙 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0040
Label: Supreme Capital regent / 上京留守 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0138
Title: Prince of Lanling / 蘭陵郡王 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾統間 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1110
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0048
Status: exiled-to-external-post · Action: entered
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0131

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: active-in
Explicit · liaoshi:062:s0062
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0085, liaoshi:099:s0036
Place: external post / 外補 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · liaoshi:062:s0063
Organization: Tulubu tribe / 突呂不部 · Relation: member-of
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0036

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: accused · Action: alleged-plot · Other Person Id: Yelü Jun (耶律浚) · Provenance: Mode: allegation · Source Person Id: Yelü Yixin (耶律乙辛)
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0131
Kind: military · Role: officer · Action: captured · Other Person Id: Taodeli (陶得裏) · Counterpart Person Id: Yelü Yixian (耶律義先)
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0039

Assessments and attributes

Item: portrait in Yifu Hall / 繪像宜福殿 · Relation: depicted-in
Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0048

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 23Volume 23 Annals 23: Daozong 3 · 5 passages

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丁未，冊皇后蕭氏，封其父祗候郎君鱉裏剌為趙王，叔西北路招討使餘里也遼西郡王，兄漢人行宮都部署、駙馬都慰霞抹柳城郡王，參知政事楊遵勖知南院樞密使事，北院樞密使副蕭速撒知北院樞密使事，漢人行宮副部署劉詵參知政事。 On dingwei day Empress Xiao was invested; her father attendant langjun Bieliuli was enfeoffed Prince of Zhao; her uncle Northwest Route pacification commissioner Yuliye Prince of Liaoxi; her elder brother Han mobile palace deployment director and imperial son-in-law Xiamo Prince of Liucheng; Associate Administrator of Affairs Yang Zunxu was made administrator of Southern Court privy affairs; Northern Court associate privy commissioner Xiao Susa administrator of Northern Court privy affairs; Han mobile palace deputy deployment director Liu Shen Associate Administrator of Affairs.

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.

六月己卯朔，耶律乙辛令牌印郎君蕭訛都斡誣首嘗預速撒等謀，籍其姓名以告。 On the jimao new moon of the sixth month Yelü Yixin ordered seal-and-tally langjun Xiao Eduwo to falsely accuse and say he had once joined Susa and the others in the plot, registering names to report.

癸未，殺始平軍節度使撒剌等十人，又遣使殺上京留守速撒，及已徙護衛撒撥等六人。 On guimao day ten including Shiping Army military commissioner Sala were killed; envoys were also dispatched to kill Supreme Capital regent Susa and the six exiled guards including Sapo.

辛卯，殺速撒等諸子，籍其家。 On xinmao day Susa's sons were killed and their households were registered.

History of Liao, Chapter 62Volume 62 Treatises 32: Punishment and Law 2 · 4 passages

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三年，乙辛又與其黨謀構昭懷太子，陰令右護衛太保耶律查剌，告知樞密院事蕭速撒等八人謀立皇太子。 In the third year Yixin and his faction framed Crown Prince Zhaohuai, secretly ordering Right Guard Commissioner Yelü Chala to accuse Privy Councilor Xiao Susa and eight others of plotting to enthrone the crown prince.

詔按無狀，出速撒、達不也外補，流護衛撒撥等六人。 Investigation found no substance; Susa and Dabuye were posted elsewhere; six guards including Sapo were exiled.

乙辛教牌印郎君蕭訛都斡自首「臣嘗預速撒等謀」，因籍姓名以告。 Yixin coached Seal Office Gentleman Xiao Eduo to confess: "I once took part in Susa's plot," and Eduo denounced others by name.

帝信之，以乙辛等鞫按，至杖皇太子，囚之宮中別室，殺撻不也、撒剌等三十五人，又殺速撒等諸子； The emperor believed them; Yixin conducted the inquiry, had the crown prince beaten and imprisoned in a separate palace chamber, executed Tabuye, Sala, and thirty-five others, and killed Susa's sons as well;

History of Liao, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 2: Imperial Family: Yi Zongbei, the Foreign Emperor Zhang Su, Shun Zongjun, Jin Wangaoluwo · 1 passage

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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 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

乙辛誣撒剌與速撒同謀廢立，詔按無跡，出為始平軍節度使。 Yixin accused Sala and Susa of plotting deposition; though the inquiry found nothing, Sala was posted as military commissioner of Shiping.

蕭速撒，字禿魯堇，突呂不部人。 Xiao Susa, whose style was Tulujin, came from the Tulubu tribe.

耶律乙辛權寵方盛，附麗者多至通顯，速撒未嘗造門。 While Yelu Yixin's power was at its peak and hangers-on won high office, Susa never once called at his door.

乙辛銜之，誣構速撒首謀廢立。 Yixin resented him and accused him of leading a plot to depose the emperor and enthrone another.

速撒、撻不也以忠言見殺，國欲無亂，得乎？ Susa and Tabuye were slain for honest counsel—could the realm hope to escape turmoil after that?

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

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上怒，命誅撒剌及速撒等。 Enraged, the emperor ordered Sala, Susa, and the others put to death.