Yelü Hulu (耶律胡呂)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelü Hulu as a general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 7 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yelü Hulu	耶律胡呂	Yēlǜ Húlǚ
Title	army supervisor	都監
Title	Dragon-Tiger Guard upper general	龍虎衛上將軍
Given	Hulu	胡呂	Húlǚ
Given name	Hulu	胡呂
Courtesy name	Susa	蘇撒
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yēlǜ
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yēlǜ
Personal name	Yelu Hulu	耶律胡呂	Yēlǜ Húlǚ
Personal name	Yelu Hulu	耶律胡呂

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:025:s0178
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:098:s0001

Roles

General
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Death

Description: Retired, received Co-Seal Director rank, and died.
Explicit · liaoshi:098:s0111

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 明年冬 · Reign Id: liao-daan · Regnal Year: 10 · Season: winter · Western Year: AD 1094
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Source Date: Text: AD 1050-1094 · Western Year: AD 1050
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Source Date: Text: 十年四月 · Western Year: AD 1094
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:025:s0178

Family

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Descendant of Yuwen (欲穩)
Child of Yang Wu (楊五)

Career and standing

Label: campaign chief overseer / 招討都監 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0115
Label: deputy deployment commissioner of the Han palace / 漢人行宮副部署 · Action: recommended-for
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0116
Office: 千牛衛大將軍 / General of the Thousand-Ox Guard
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Office: 同中書門下平章事 / Co-Seal Director of the Secretariat-Chancellery · Western Year: AD 1085 · Source Date: Text: after retirement
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Office: 寢殿小底 / sleeping-hall attendant · Western Year: AD 1050 · Source Date: Text: late Chongxi
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Office: 招討都監 / supervising commissioner of the pacification campaign · Western Year: AD 1085 · Source Date: Text: Da'an
Explicit · liaoshi:098:s0110
Office: 漢人行宮副部署 / vice deployment commissioner of the Han Mobile Court · Western Year: AD 1085 · Source Date: Text: Da'an
Explicit · liaoshi:098:s0110
Office: 知太和宮事 / administrator of Taihe Palace affairs · Western Year: AD 1085 · Source Date: Text: Da'an
Explicit · liaoshi:098:s0110

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0115
Kind: origin · Action: Was from the Hongyi Palace Division and bore courtesy name Susa.
Explicit · liaoshi:098:s0104

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: co-commander · Action: defeated-Mogusi · Other Person Id: Yelü Naye (耶律那也)
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0115
Kind: career-event · Action: Was appointed a sleeping-hall attendant late in Chongxi and rose through important posts for good service. · Western Year: AD 1050 · Source Date: Text: late Chongxi
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Kind: military-event · Action: With Yelu Naye, led two thousand picked horsemen and suppressed Molusi's Northern Zhubu revolt. · Western Year: AD 1085 · Source Date: Text: Da'an
Explicit · liaoshi:098:s0110
Relation: protege-of · Person Id: Yelü Naye (耶律那也)
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0116

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: Was modest, careful, and impartial toward others. · Kind: character-assessment · Provenance: Mode: textual
Explicit · liaoshi:098:s0107

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 25Volume 25 Annals 25: Daozong 5 · 1 passage

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庚戌，以知北院樞密使事耶律斡特剌為都統，夷離畢耶律禿朵為副統，龍虎衛上將軍耶律胡呂都監，討磨古斯，遣積慶宮使蕭虬裏監戰。 On gengxu day Yelü Wotela, who administered Northern Court privy affairs, was made supreme commander; yilibi Yelü Tuduo deputy commander; Dragon-Tiger Guard upper general Yelü Hulu army supervisor to attack Mogusi; Jiqing Palace commissioner Xiao Qiuli supervised the campaign.

History of Liao, Chapter 94Volume 94 Biographies 24: Yelu Huage, Yelu Wola, Yelu Susa, Xiao Aludai, Yelu Naye, Yelu Helusaogu, Yelu Shiliang · 2 passages

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明年冬，以北阻卜長磨古斯叛，與招討都監耶律胡呂率精騎二千往討，破之。 The next winter, when the Northern Zubu chieftain Mogusi rebelled, he and campaign chief overseer Yelu Hulu led two thousand elite cavalry against him and defeated him.

那也薦胡呂為漢人行宮副部署。 Naye recommended Hulu for appointment as deputy deployment commissioner of the Han palace.

History of Liao, Chapter 98Volume 98 Biographies 28: Xiao Wuna, Yelu Yan, Liu Shen, Yelu Hulu · 4 passages

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蕭兀納耶律儼劉伸耶律胡呂 Xiao Wuna, Yelu Yan, Liu Shen, and Yelu Hulu

耶律胡呂，字蘇撒，弘義宮分人。 Yelu Hulu, courtesy name Susa, was from the Hongyi Palace Division.

胡呂性謙謹，於人無適莫。 Hulu was modest and careful by nature and showed no partiality toward anyone.

大安中，北阻卜酋磨魯斯叛，為招討都監，與耶律那也率精騎二千討平之，以功為漢人行宮副部署，兼知太和宮事。 During Da'an the Northern Zhubu chieftain Molusi rebelled; Hulu served as supervising commissioner of the pacification campaign and, with Yelu Naye, led two thousand picked horsemen to crush the revolt; for this he was made vice deployment commissioner of the Han mobile palace and concurrently administrator of Taihe Palace.