Yelü Heluosaogu (耶律何魯掃古)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelü Heluosaogu as a courtier, general, and official. This record brings together 6 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	Yelü Heluosaogu	耶律何魯掃古	Yēlǜ Hélǔsǎogǔ
Given	Helusaogu	何魯掃古	Hélǔsǎogǔ
Courtesy name	Wugulin	烏古鄰	Wūgǔlín
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yēlǜ
Personal name	Yelü Heluosaogu	耶律何魯掃古
Personal name	Yelu Helusaogu	耶律何魯掃古	Yēlǜ Hélǔsǎogǔ

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0064
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:094:s0037

Roles

Courtier
General
Official

Life and dates

Death

Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0050

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 清寧初 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1055
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:094:s0039
Source Date: Text: 乾統三年十一月 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1103
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:027:s0064
Source Date: Text: 大安八年 · Reign Id: liao-daan · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 1092
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0043
Source Date: Text: 乾統中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1110
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0050
Source Date: Text: 壽隆間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1095 · End: AD 1101
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0048
Source Date: Text: 大康中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0040
Source Date: Text: 道宗崩 · Western Year: AD 1101
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0049
Source Date: Text: 重熙末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1054 · End: AD 1055
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:094:s0038

Origins and identity

Lineage: descendant of the Mengfu branch / 孟父房之後
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0037

Career and standing

Label: acting northwestern route campaign commander / 知西北路招討使事 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 大安八年 · Reign Id: liao-daan · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 1092
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0043
Label: attendant gentleman / 祗候郎君 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 重熙末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1054 · End: AD 1055
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Label: senior commissioner of the left guard / 左護衛太保 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0041
Label: training commissioner of An Prefecture / 安州團練使 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 清寧初 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1055
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:094:s0039
Label: vice director / 侍中 · Action: concurrent
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0048
Label: military commissioner of the Huaide army / 懷德軍節度使 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
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Label: grand commandant tuli of the Six Xi Tribes / 奚六部禿裏太尉 · Action: held
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Label: tiyin / 惕隱 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 壽隆間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1095 · End: AD 1101
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0048
Label: left vice director / 左僕射 · Action: promoted
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0044
Label: meritorious minister who preserves integrity / 保節功臣 · Action: granted
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0048
Status: retirement · Action: retired · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾統中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1101 · End: AD 1110
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0050
Status: stripped-and-beaten · Action: punished · Label: stripped of office and sentenced to heavy beating for false report / 削官，決以大杖
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0047

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0038

Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: overseer · Action: directed-Daozong-tomb-works · Other Person Id: Yelü Yan (耶律儼)
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0049
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: induced-Mogusi-against-Yeduogua · Other Person Id: Mogusi (磨古斯)
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0044
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: mistakenly-attacked-Mogusi · Other Person Id: Mogusi (磨古斯)
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0045
Kind: political · Role: planner · Action: planned-northeastern-frontier-affairs
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0041

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: mistaken-attack-caused-Zubu-rebellion · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0075
Kind: character · Statement: spoke bluntly without ulterior motives; treated with indulgence
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0042

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0064

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 27Volume 27 Annals 27: Emperor Tianzuo 1 · 1 passage

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丁酉，以惕隱耶律何魯掃古為南院大王。 On dingyou day tiyin Yelü Heluosaogu was made Southern Court great king.

History of Liao, Chapter 94Volume 94 Biographies 24: Yelu Huage, Yelu Wola, Yelu Susa, Xiao Aludai, Yelu Naye, Yelu Helusaogu, Yelu Shiliang · 5 passages

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耶律化哥耶律斡臘耶律速撒蕭阿魯帶耶律那也耶律何魯掃古耶律世良 Yelu Huage, Yelu Wola, Yelu Susa, Xiao Aludai, Yelu Naye, Yelu Helusaogu, and Yelu Shiliang.

耶律何魯掃古，字烏古鄰，孟父房之後。 Yelu Helusaogu, whose courtesy name was Wugulin, was a descendant of the Mengfu branch of the imperial clan.

時邊部耶睹刮等來侵，何魯掃古誘北阻卜酋豪磨古斯攻之，俘獲甚眾，以功加左僕射。 When the frontier tribes led by Yeduogua raided the border, Helusaogu induced the Northern Zubu chieftain Mogusi to strike them, took a great haul of captives, and was promoted to left vice director for his service.

何魯掃古不以實聞，坐是削官，決以大杖。 Helusaogu failed to report what had really happened; for that his offices were stripped and he was sentenced to a heavy beating.

化哥利俘獲，而諸蕃不附，何魯掃古誤擊磨古斯，而阻卜叛命，是皆喜於一旦之功，而不圖後日之患，庸何議焉。 Huage prized captives while the frontier tribes would not attach themselves; Helusaogu struck Mogusi by mistake and the Zubu rebelled—these men rejoiced in a single day's gain and gave no thought to tomorrow's trouble; what is there to commend?