Yelü Dabeinu (耶律大悲奴)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelü Dabeinu as an administrator, aristocrat, diplomat, and military officer. This record brings together 9 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	Yelü Dabeinu	耶律大悲奴	Yēlǜ Dàbēinú
Personal	Dabeinu	大悲奴	Dàbēinú
Given name	Dabeinu	大悲奴	Dàbēinú
Courtesy name	Xiujian	休堅	Xiūjiān
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yēlǜ
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yēlǜ
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yelü
Personal name	Yelu Dabeinu	耶律大悲奴	Yēlǜ Dàbēinú
Personal	Yelü Dabeinu	耶律大悲奴	Yelü Dabeinu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:023:s0031
Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:026:s0024, liaoshi:066:s0135, liaoshi:095:s0090, liaoshi:101:s0028

Roles

Administrator
Aristocrat
Diplomat
Military Officer
Official
Royal Family Member
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0097

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:023:s0080
Source Date: Text: 大康中 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0091
Source Date: Text: 乾統初 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1110
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0094
Source Date: Text: 八年十二月戊辰 · Western Year: AD 1072
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:023:s0031
Source Date: Text: 壽隆二年 · Western Year: AD 1096
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0093
Source Date: Text: 壽隆二年十二月 · Western Year: AD 1096
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:026:s0048
Source Date: Text: 壽隆元年十月 · Western Year: AD 1095
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:026:s0024
Source Date: Text: 天慶中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1111 · End: AD 1120
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0096
Source Date: Text: 遼 · Western Interval: Start: AD 916 · End: AD 1125
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:066:s0135
Source Date: Text: 章奴之叛 · Western Year: AD 1116
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:101:s0028, liaoshi:101:s0048

Family

Descendant of Yanmu (巖木)
Kinship Term: descendant of / 之後
Descendant of Nieligu (聶裏古)
Kinship Term: descendant / 後 · Line: paternal
Descendant of Jundeshi (勻德實)
Kinship Term: descended from / 係出

Career and standing

Label: Commissioner for Subjugation of the Southwest / 西南面招討使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾統初 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1110
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:095:s0094
Label: Chief Inspector of the Palace Front / 殿前都點檢 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 壽隆二年 · Western Year: AD 1096
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0093
Label: hall front inspector-general / 殿前都點檢 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:026:s0048
Label: military commissioner of Shiping Army / 始平軍節度使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0080
Label: Right yilibi / 右夷離畢 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:026:s0024
Label: Military Commissioner of the Zhangguo Army / 彰國軍節度使 · Action: held-at-retirement
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0097
Label: Commissioner of the Yongxing-Yanchang Palace / 永興延昌宮使 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康中 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:095:s0091
Label: Xiangwen of the Right Pishi / 右皮室詳穩 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康中 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:095:s0091
Label: Garrison Commander of the Supreme Capital / 上京留守 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾統初 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1110
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:095:s0094
Label: Texun / 惕隱 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾統初 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1110
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:095:s0094
Label: Garrison Commander of the Supreme Capital / 上京留守 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天慶中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1111 · End: AD 1120
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:095:s0096
Label: Garrison commander (留守) / 留守 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0028
Label: Han mobile palace deputy deployment director / 漢人行宮副部署 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0031
Label: military commissioner of the Kuanyi Army / 匡義節度 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:066:s0135
Label: Northern Court palace academician / 北面林牙 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:026:s0024
Label: tiyin / 惕隱 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0080
Label: deployment director / 都部署 · Action: promoted
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0031
Label: Chief Inspector / 都點檢 · Action: reappointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾統初 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1110
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:095:s0094
Status: retirement · Action: retired
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0097

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: belonged-to
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:066:s0135
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0031, liaoshi:026:s0024, liaoshi:095:s0091, liaoshi:101:s0028
Place: Supreme Capital / 上京 · Relation: posted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天慶中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1111 · End: AD 1120
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0096

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: held-defenses · Other Person Id: Xiao Taosuwan (蕭陶蘇斡) · Counterpart Person Id: Yelü Zhangnu (耶律章奴)
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0028
Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: summoned-to-surrender · Counterpart: Zubu / 阻卜
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0092

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: gentle, refined, devoted to ritual propriety · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:095:s0098

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 23Volume 23 Annals 23: Daozong 3 · 2 passages

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十二月戊辰，漢人行宮都部署耶律仲禧封韓國公，樞密副使、參知政事趙徽出為武定軍節度使，樞密副使柴德滋參知政事，漢人行宮副部署耶律大悲奴升都部署，同知南院樞密使事蕭韓家奴知左夷離畢事。 On wuchen day of the twelfth month Han mobile palace deployment director Yelü Zhongxi was enfeoffed Duke of Han; associate privy commissioner and Associate Administrator of Affairs Zhao Hui was dismissed as military commissioner of Wuding Army; associate privy commissioner Chai Dezi was made Associate Administrator of Affairs; Han mobile palace deputy deployment director Yelü Dabeinu was promoted deployment director; associate Southern Court privy commissioner Xiao Hanjianu was made administrator of Left yilibi affairs.

以惕隱大悲奴為始平軍節度使，參知政事柴德滋武定軍節度使。 Tiyin Dabeinu was made military commissioner of Shiping Army; Associate Administrator of Affairs Chai Dezi military commissioner of Wuding Army.

History of Liao, Chapter 26Volume 26 Annals 26: Daozong 6 · 2 passages

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甲戌，以北面林牙耶律大悲奴為右夷離畢。 On jiaxu day Northern Court palace academician Yelü Dabeinu was made Right yilibi.

癸亥，蕭撻不也為北府宰相，耶律大悲奴殿前都點檢。 On guihai day Xiao Tabuye was made Northern Court chancellor; Yelü Dabeinu hall front inspector-general.

History of Liao, Chapter 66Volume 66 Tables 4: Imperial Family · 1 passage

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匡義節度大悲奴。 Dabeinu, military commissioner of the Kuanyi Army.

History of Liao, Chapter 95Volume 95 Biographies 25: Yelu Honggu, Yelu Maliu, Xiao Dilie, Yelu Shilu, Yelu Chenjianu, Yelu Teme, Yelu Xiantong, Xiao Susa, Yelu Dabeinu · 3 passages

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耶律弘古耶律馬六蕭滴冽耶律適祿耶律陳家奴耶律特麼耶律仙童蕭素颯耶律大悲奴 Yelu Honggu, Yelu Maliu, Xiao Dilie, Yelu Shilu, Yelu Chenjianu, Yelu Teme, Yelu Xiantong, Xiao Susa, and Yelu Dabeinu

耶律大悲奴，字休堅，王子班聶裏古之後。 Yelu Dabeinu, whose style name was Xiujian, was a descendant of Nieligu of the Princes' Class.

大悲奴舉止馴雅，好禮儀，為時人所稱。 Dabeinu was gentle and refined in manner, devoted to ritual propriety, and widely praised by his contemporaries.

History of Liao, Chapter 101Volume 101 Biographies 31: Xiao Taosuwo, Yelu Axibao, Xiao Yixue, Xiao Hudu · 1 passage

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及耶律章奴叛，陶蘇斡與留守耶律大悲奴為守禦。 When Yelu Zhangnu rose in revolt, Taosuwo and the capital's garrison commander Yelu Dabeinu organized the city's defense.