Yelü Chun (耶律淳) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelü Chun as an aristocrat, general, official, and rebel. This record brings together 63 passages from 7 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yelü Chun	耶律淳	Yēlǜ Chún
Personal	Chun	淳	Chún
Personal name	Chun	淳	Chún
Given name	Chun	淳	Chún
Personal	Chun	淳	Chun
Regnal	Emperor Tianxi	天錫皇帝
Posthumous name	Emperor Xiaozhang	孝章皇帝
Temple	Emperor Xuanzong	宣宗
Title	Heavenly Bestowed Emperor	天錫皇帝
Title	King of Qin and Jin	秦晉國王
Title	King of Qin-Jin	秦晉國王	Qín-Jìn guó wáng
Title	King of Qin-Jin	秦晉王	Qín-Jìn wáng
Title	King of Qin-Jin Chun	秦晉王淳
Childhood name	Nieli	涅里	Nièlǐ
Noble title	Prince Chun of Wei	魏王淳
Title	Prince Chun of Wei	魏國王淳
Title	Prince of Qin and Jin	秦晉國王
Title	Prince of Qin-Jin	秦晉國王
Title	Prince of Wei	魏國王	Wèiguó wáng
Title	Prince of Wei	魏王
Title	Prince of Wei	魏國王	Wèi Guó Wáng
Title	Prince of Wei	魏國王
Title	Prince of Yue	越王
Title	Prince of Zheng	鄭王
Temple name	Xuanzong	宣宗	Xuānzōng
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yēlǜ
Personal name	Yelü Chun	耶律淳	Yelü Chún
Personal name	Yelü Chun	耶律淳	Yēlǜ Chún

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0037, liaoshi:030:s0020, liaoshi:066:s0536, liaoshi:100:s0033, liaoshi:101:s0060, liaoshi:102:s0043, liaoshi:114:s0071

Roles

Aristocrat
General
Official
Rebel
Royal Family Member
Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Cause: illness / 病 · Age: Value: 60 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · liaoshi:030:s0185
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保大二年 · Western Year: AD 1122
Explicit · liaoshi:114:s0073, liaoshi:114:s0071
Manner: illness
Explicit · liaoshi:102:s0047, liaoshi:102:s0049

Age

Value: 60 · Reckoning: sui · At Event: death
Explicit · liaoshi:030:s0185

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 保大初 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1121
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:102:s0043, liaoshi:102:s0045, liaoshi:102:s0049
Source Date: Text: 乾統二年 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1102
Explicit · liaoshi:030:s0167
Source Date: Text: 六年 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1106
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:030:s0168
Source Date: Text: 清甯初 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Western Year: AD 1055
Explicit · liaoshi:030:s0023
Source Date: Text: 七年 · Western Year: AD 1117
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:028:s0097, liaoshi:028:s0101
Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1115
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:028:s0037, liaoshi:028:s0043
Source Date: Text: 保大二年 · Western Year: AD 1122
Explicit · liaoshi:030:s0172, liaoshi:030:s0176
Source Date: Text: 保大二年 · Western Year: AD 1122
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:100:s0033, liaoshi:100:s0034, liaoshi:101:s0058, liaoshi:101:s0060, liaoshi:114:s0071
Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1116
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:028:s0077
Source Date: Text: 右係出興宗神聖孝章皇帝 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1031 · End: AD 1055
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:066:s0536, liaoshi:066:s0544
Source Date: Text: 天慶五年 · Western Year: AD 1115
Explicit · liaoshi:030:s0027
Source Date: Text: 天慶五年 · Western Year: AD 1115
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:100:s0060

Family

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Descendant of Xingzong (興宗)
Kinship Term: grandfather of / 孫 · Generation Distance: 2
Kinship Term: grandson / 孫 · Generation Distance: 2 · Subject Role: grandson · Object Role: grandfather
Kinship Term: fourth-generation grandson / 第四孫 · Generation Distance: 4 · Line: paternal
Kinship Term: descent line from / 係出 · Line: paternal
Spouse of Lady Xiao (王妃蕭氏)
Kinship Term: prince's consort / 王妃 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife
Child of Yelü Heluwo (耶律和魯斡)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Parent of Asa (阿撒)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Spouse of Puxiannu (普賢女)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: active
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage
Spouse of Wife of Yelü Chun (魏國王淳妻)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage

Origins and identity

Lineage: Descent line of Emperor Xingzong / 興宗神聖孝章皇帝系
Explicit · liaoshi:066:s0536, liaoshi:066:s0544

Career and standing

Label: Southern Chancellor / 南府宰相 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1106
Explicit · liaoshi:030:s0168
Label: commander-in-chief / 都元帥 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天慶五年 · Western Year: AD 1115
Explicit · liaoshi:030:s0027
Label: supreme commander / 都元帥 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0077
Title: King of Qin-Jin / 秦晉國王 · Action: advanced-to
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0077
Title: King of Qin and Jin / 秦晉國王 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:066:s0536
Title: Prince of Wei / 魏國王 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0037, liaoshi:100:s0060
Title: Prince of Wei / 魏王 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0060
Status: usurpation · Action: assumed-royal-title
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0060
Status: claimed-emperorship · Action: assumed
Explicit · liaoshi:066:s0536
Label: beheaded Dili and Yanliu / 斬敵裏、延留 · Action: executed · Other Person Id: Dili (敵里)
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0063
Title: Heavenly Bestowed Emperor / 天錫皇帝 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保大二年…建福元年 · Western Year: AD 1122
Explicit · liaoshi:030:s0175, liaoshi:030:s0176
Statement: proclaimed himself emperor / usurped title · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保大二年 · Western Year: AD 1122
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0034
Title: Emperor Tianxi / 天錫皇帝
Explicit · liaoshi:102:s0045

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: associated
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0033, liaoshi:101:s0060
Polity Id: liao · Relation: member-of
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:066:s0536, liaoshi:066:s0544
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0037, liaoshi:102:s0043

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Xiao Dili (蕭諦里)
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0040

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: claimant · Action: declared-emperor
Explicit · liaoshi:066:s0536
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Place: Jili Mountain / 蒺藜山
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0101
Kind: legal · Role: authority · Action: executed · Other Person Id: Xiao Dili (蕭諦里)
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0043
Kind: political · Role: hesitant-candidate · Action: hesitated when asked to take throne; then beheaded Dili and Yanliu
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0062, liaoshi:100:s0063
Kind: political · Role: refused-plot · Action: rejected-enthronement · Other Person Id: Yelü Zhangnu (耶律章奴)
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0040, liaoshi:028:s0043
Kind: recruitment · Role: recruiter · Action: sent-letters-to-recruit · Other Person Id: Yelu Axibao (耶律阿息保)
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0060
Relation: kin-of · Person Id: Yelü Yanxi (延禧)
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:028:s0037, liaoshi:028:s0040

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: of lofty virtue able to govern · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Yelü Zhangnu (耶律章奴)
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0066
Assessment: usurper · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:030:s0141, liaoshi:030:s0142

Source notes

To: Emperor Xuanzong / 宣宗 · From: Emperor Tianxi / 天錫皇帝
Explicit · liaoshi:102:s0045, liaoshi:102:s0053

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 28Volume 28 Annals 28: Emperor Tianzuo 2 · 9 passages

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乙巳，耶律章奴反，奔上京，謀迎立魏國王淳。 On yisi day Yelü Zhangnu rebelled, fled to the Supreme Capital, and plotted to welcome Prince of Wei Chun to the throne.

上遣駙馬蕭昱領兵詣廣平澱護后妃，行宮小底乙信持書馳報魏國王。 The emperor sent imperial son-in-law Xiao Yu leading troops to Guangping Marsh to guard the empress and consorts; mobile palace attendant Yixin bore a letter at full gallop to report to Prince of Wei.

時章奴先遣王妃親弟蕭諦里以所謀說魏國王。 At that time Zhangnu had first sent the consort's younger brother Xiao Dili to explain the plot to Prince of Wei.

王曰：「此非細事，主上自有諸王當立，北、南面大臣不來，而汝言及此，何也？」 The prince said, "This is no small matter; the sovereign has his own princes who should be enthroned; Northern and Southern Court great ministers have not come — yet you speak of this — how so?"

魏國王立斬蕭諦里等首以獻，單騎間道詣廣平澱待罪。 Prince of Wei at once beheaded Xiao Dili and others' heads to present; alone on horseback by a hidden path he went to Guangping Marsh to await punishment.

章奴知魏國王不聽，率麾下掠慶、饒、懷、祖等州，結渤海群盜，眾至數萬，趨廣平澱犯行宮。 Zhangnu, learning Prince of Wei would not listen, led his followers to plunder Qing, Rao, Huai, Zu, and other prefectures, joined Bohai bandits, and when his force reached tens of thousands hastened to Guangping Marsh to attack the mobile palace.

庚辰，魏國王淳進封秦晉國王，為都元帥； On gengchen day Prince of Wei Chun was advanced to King of Qin-Jin and made supreme commander;

八月丙寅，獵斯那里山，命都元帥秦晉王赴沿邊，會四路兵馬防秋。 On bingyin day of the eighth month the court hunted at Sinari Mountain and ordered supreme commander King of Qin-Jin to go to the border and assemble four-route troops to guard against autumn raids.

十二月丙寅，都元帥秦晉國王淳遇女直軍，戰於蒺藜山，敗績。 On bingyin day of the twelfth month supreme commander King of Qin-Jin Chun encountered Jurchen troops; they fought at Jili Mountain and were defeated.

History of Liao, Chapter 30Volume 30 Annals 30: Emperor Tianzuo 4: Ye Luchun, Ye Luyali, Ye Ludashi and Son: Yilie, Yi Lie and Younger Sister: Pu Suwan, Yi Lieci and Son: Zhilugu · 27 passages

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天祚皇帝四耶律淳耶律雅里耶律大石子:夷列夷列妹:普速完夷列次子:直魯古 Emperor Tianzuo IV; Yelü Chun; Yelü Yali; Yelü Dashi — Yilie; Yilie's sister Pusuwan; Yilie's second son Zhilugu

耶律淳 Yelü Chun

耶律淳者，世號為北遼。 Yelü Chun — his regime is known as Northern Liao.

淳小字涅里，興宗第四孫，南京留守、宋魏王和魯斡之子。 Chun's childhood name was Nieli; he was Emperor Xingzong's fourth-generation grandson, son of Southern Capital regent and Song Prince of Wei Heluwo.

昭懷太子得罪，上欲以淳為嗣。 When the Memorializing Heir Apparent was condemned, the emperor wished to make Chun heir.

上怒耶律白斯不，知與淳善，出淳為彰聖等軍節度使。 The emperor was angry at Yelü Baisi, knowing he was friendly with Chun, and sent Chun out as Zhangsheng and other armies military commissioner.

天祚即位，進王鄭。 When Tianzuo took the throne, Chun was advanced to Prince of Zheng.

其父和魯斡薨，即以淳襲父守南京。 When his father Heluwo died, Chun thereupon succeeded his father as regent of Nanjing.

天慶五年，東征，都監章奴濟鴨子河，與淳子阿撒等三百餘人亡歸，先遣敵里等以廢立之謀報淳，淳斬敵里首以獻，進封秦晉國王，拜都元帥，賜金券，免漢拜禮，不名。 In Tianqing year 5, on the eastern campaign, superintendent Zhangnu crossed the Yazi River; with Chun's son Asa and more than three hundred others he fled back, first sending Dili and others to report to Chun the plan to depose and enthrone; Chun beheaded Dili and presented his head, was advanced Prince of Qin-Jin, appointed commander-in-chief, granted the gold warrant, exempted from Han bowing ritual, and not called by name.

東至錦州，隊長武朝彥作亂，劫淳。 Going east to Jinzhou, company chief Wu Chaoyan made disorder and seized Chun.

淳匿而免，收朝彥誅之。 Chun hid and escaped, gathered Chaoyan and executed him.