Yelu Ameli (耶律阿沒裏)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelu Ameli as an aristocrat, military officer, official, and statesman. This record brings together 8 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yelu Ameli	耶律阿沒裏	Yelu Ameli
Given	Ameli	阿沒裏	Ameli
Title	Imperial Clan Commissioner	宣徽使
Courtesy	Pulian	蒲鄰	Pulian
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yelu
Personal	Yelü Amoli	耶律阿沒裏	Yelü Amoli

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Value: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:079:s0073

Roles

Aristocrat
Military Officer
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0084

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 統和初 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 983
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:079:s0076
Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 12 · Western Year: AD 994
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:079:s0079
Source Date: Text: 四年春 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:079:s0078
Source Date: Text: 保寧中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 969 · End: AD 979
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:079:s0075
Source Date: Text: 統和初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 986
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:088:s0084

Family

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Descendant of Chaogu (嘲古)
Kinship Term: fourth-generation descendant / 四世孫 · Generation Distance: 4 · Line: paternal
Parent of Xiange (賢哥)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: chief administrator / 政事令 · Action: added
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0077
Label: commander-in-chief / 都統 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和初 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 983
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0076
Label: south chancellery commissioner of the palace directorate / 南院宣徽使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保寧中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 969 · End: AD 979
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0075
Label: north chancellery commissioner of the palace directorate / 北院宣徽使 · Action: promoted
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0077

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0075

Works and attributed material

Kind: remonstrance · Role: author · Other Person Id: Empress Dowager (太后)
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0081, liaoshi:079:s0082

Events and relationships

Kind: administrative · Role: founder · Action: built city from campaign captives and sought Feng Prefecture status
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0085
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned against Goryeo · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和初 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 1012
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0077
Kind: military · Role: chief-overseer · Action: defeated Song invaders in Yan · Other Person Id: Cao Bin (曹彬) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四年春 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0078
Kind: legal · Role: legislator · Action: instituted anti-theft measures at mobile palace · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 12 · Western Year: AD 994
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0079
Kind: political · Role: retiree · Action: retired from office and later died
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0084
Kind: legal · Role: reformer · Action: secured exemption from collective punishment for uninformed brothers
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0080, liaoshi:079:s0081, liaoshi:079:s0082, liaoshi:079:s0083
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Yelü Xiezhen (耶律斜軫)
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0076
Relation: master-of · Person Id: Yan Gui (閻貴)
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0085

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: fond of amassing wealth; contemporary opinion despised his Feng Prefecture scheme · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0085
Assessment: humane remonstrator on collective punishment · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:079:s0089

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 79Volume 79 Biographies 9: Shi Fang, Yelu Xianshi, Nu Li, Guo Xi, Yelu Ameili · 7 passages

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室昉耶律賢適女裏郭襲耶律阿沒裏 Shi Fang, Yelu Xianshi, Nuli, Guo Xi, and Yelu Ameli.

耶律阿沒裏，字蒲鄰，遙輦嘲古可汗之四世孫。 Yelu Ameli, whose courtesy name was Pulian, was a fourth-generation descendant of the Yaolian khan Chaogu.

四年春，宋將曹彬、米信等侵燕，上親征，阿沒裏為都監，屢破敵軍。 In the spring of the fourth year the Song generals Cao Bin, Mi Xin, and others invaded Yan; the emperor took the field in person, with Ameli as chief overseer, and repeatedly routed the enemy.

十二年，行在多盜，阿沒裏立禁捕法，盜始息。 In the twelfth year theft was rampant at the mobile palace; Ameli instituted strict prohibition and arrest measures, and the thefts finally subsided.

阿沒裏諫曰：「夫兄弟雖曰同胞，賦性各異，一行逆謀，雖不與知，輒坐以法，是刑及無罪也。 Ameli remonstrated, saying, "Brothers may share the same womb, yet their natures differ; when one commits treason, to punish even those who knew nothing is to extend the law to the innocent.

阿沒裏性好聚斂，每從征所掠人口，聚而建城，請為豐州，就以家奴閻貴為刺史，時議鄙之。 Ameli was by nature fond of amassing wealth; on every campaign he gathered the people taken in plunder, assembled them to build a city, asked that it be made Feng Prefecture, and appointed his household slave Yan Gui as prefect—an act widely despised at the time.

室昉進《無逸》之篇，郭襲陳諫獵之疏，阿沒裏請免同氣之坐，所謂仁人之言，其利溥哉。 Shi Fang presented the "Against Dissipation" chapter, Guo Xi submitted his memorial against excessive hunting, and Ameli asked that innocent brothers be spared associated punishment—these are what are called the words of humane men, whose benefit spreads far indeed.

History of Liao, Chapter 88Volume 88 Biographies 18: Xiao Dilie, Yelu Pennu, Xiao Paiya, Yelu Zizhong, Yelu Yaozhi, Yelu Honggu, Gao Zheng, Yelu Delu, Da Kangyi · 1 passage

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從宣徽使耶律阿沒裏征高麗還，改北面林牙。 Following Imperial Clan Commissioner Yelü Amoli on the campaign against Goryeo, on his return he was transferred to Northern Division Linya.