Yelü Pennu (耶律盆奴)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelü Pennu as a general and official. This record brings together 8 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yelü Pennu	耶律盆奴	Yelü Pennu
Courtesy	Hudujin	胡獨堇	Hudujin
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yelü

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0042

Roles

General
Official

Life and dates

Death

Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0055

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 統和十六年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 16 · Western Year: AD 998
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:088:s0046
Source Date: Text: 統和二十八年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 28 · Western Year: AD 1010
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:088:s0047
Source Date: Text: 景宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 969 · End: AD 982
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:088:s0043

Family

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Child of Parent of Yelü Pennu (盆奴之父或母)
Kinship Term: parent / 父/母 · Parentage: biological
Kinship Term: grandson / 孫 · Parentage: biological · Generation Distance: 1
Descendant of Nielugu (涅魯古)
Kinship Term: grandson / 孫 · Generation Distance: 2

Career and standing

Label: Detailed Commandant of the Wugu Tribe / 烏古部詳穩 · Action: appointed
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Label: Grand Prince of the Northern Division / 北院大王 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0055
Label: Grand Guardian of the Horse Herds / 馬群太保 · Action: transferred
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0045

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
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Events and relationships

Kind: administrative · Role: reformer · Action: culled-unfit-from-Hidden-Elite-Yan-Army
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0046
Kind: military · Role: vanguard · Action: defeated-Kang-Zhao-at-Tongzhou · Other Person Id: Kang Zhao (康肇) · Place: Tongzhou / 銅州
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: entered-Kaesong-burned-palace · Place: Kaesong / 開京
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Relation: commander-with · Person Id: Honggu (弘古)
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0051

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: harsh administration; people suffered · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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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 · 8 passages

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耶律盆奴蕭排押 Yelü Pennu and Xiao Paiya

耶律盆奴，字胡獨堇，惕隱涅魯古之孫。 Yelü Pennu, whose style name was Hudujin, was a grandson of Tiyin Nielugu.

有司以聞，詔曰：「盆奴任方面寄，以細故究問，恐損威望。」 The responsible office reported this, and an edict said: "Pennu holds a frontier commission; to pursue him over trifles would damage his authority."

二十八年，駕征高麗，盆奴為先鋒。 In the twenty-eighth year, when the emperor campaigned against Goryeo, Pennu served as vanguard.

盆奴率耶律弘古擊破三水營，擒肇，李玄蘊等軍望風潰。 Pennu led Yelü Honggu, broke the Three Waters camp, and captured Zhao. The forces of Li Xuanyun and others fled at the sight of them.

盆奴入開京，焚其王宮，乃撫慰其民人。 Pennu entered Kaesong, burned the royal palace, and then reassured the populace.

後伐高麗，副先鋒耶律盆奴，擒康肇於銅州。 Later, campaigning against Goryeo, he served as deputy to vanguard Yelü Pennu and captured Kang Zhao at Tongzhou.

統和二十八年，伐高麗，的錄率本部軍與盆奴等擒康肇、李玄蘊於銅州。 In the twenty-eighth year of Tonghe, on the campaign against Goryeo, Delu led his own division army together with Pennu and others and captured Kang Zhao and Li Xuanyun at Tongzhou.