Yelu Pode (耶律頗的)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelu Pode as an aristocrat, diplomat, official, and statesman. This record brings together 6 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	Yelu Pode	耶律頗的	Yēlǜ Pōde
Title	Duke of Wu	吳國公	Wúguógōng
Given	Pode	頗的	Pōde
Courtesy name	Saban	撒版	Sǎbǎn
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yēlǜ
Personal name	Yelu Pode	耶律頗的	Yēlǜ Pōde

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:086:s0168

Roles

Aristocrat
Diplomat
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0183

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 清寧初 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1055
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:086:s0171
Source Date: Text: 大康四年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 1078
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:086:s0181
Source Date: Text: 大安中 · Reign Id: liao-daan · Western Interval: Start: AD 1085 · End: AD 1094
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:086:s0183
Source Date: Text: 咸雍八年 · Western Year: AD 1072
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:086:s0173
Source Date: Text: 重熙初 · Western Year: AD 1032
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:086:s0170

Family

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Descendant of Nugua (奴瓜)
Kinship Term: grandson / 孫 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
Parent of Yelu Xiamo (耶律霞抹)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Origins and identity

Label: Shufu branch / 季父房
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0168

Career and standing

Label: prefect of Yi / 知易州 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清寧初 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1055
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0171
Label: Military Commissioner of Zhongshun / 忠順軍節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康四年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 1078
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0181
Label: Military Commissioner of Zhangguo / 彰國軍節度使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸雍八年 · Western Year: AD 1072
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0173
Label: Seal and Tablet Attendant / 牌印郎君 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙初 · Western Year: AD 1032
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0170
Label: Associate Regent of the Southern Capital / 同知南京留守事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0181
Label: Commissioner of the Southern Chancellery Palace Secretariat / 南院宣徽使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0180
Label: Grand Councilor of the Southern Chancellery / 南府宰相 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0181
Label: Great King of the Southern Chancellery / 南院大王 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0181
Label: Military Affairs Commissioner of the Northern Chancellery / 北院樞密使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0181
Label: Northern Secretary / 北面林牙 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0178
Title: Duke of Wu / 吳國公 · Action: enfeoffed
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0181
Label: Merit Subject of Integrity / 貞良功臣 · Action: granted
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0181
Status: retired · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大安中 · Reign Id: liao-daan · Western Interval: Start: AD 1085 · End: AD 1094
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0183

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0170

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0175, liaoshi:086:s0176

Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic · Role: boundary-commissioner · Action: demarcated border after Song returned encroached land
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0179
Kind: administration · Role: retained-official · Action: people petitioned to keep him in office
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0172

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: bore imperial commission abroad without disgrace · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0187
Kind: character · Statement: aloof and solitary
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0169
Kind: character · Statement: incorrupt and careful in public service
Explicit · liaoshi:086:s0182

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 86Volume 86 Biographies 16: Yelu Hezhu, Liu Jing, Liu Liufu, Ye Luniaolu, Niu Wenshu, Du Fang, Xiao Heshang, Yelu Helizhi, Yelu Pode · 6 passages

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耶律合裏只耶律頗的 Yelu Helizhi and Yelu Pode

耶律頗的，字撒版，季父房奴瓜之孫。 Yelu Pode, whose style name was Saban, was a grandson of Nugua of the Shufu branch.

上獵大牢古山，頗的謁於行宮。 When the emperor hunted on Mount Dalaogu, Pode presented himself at the traveling palace.

後遣人使宋，得其侵地，命頗的往定疆界。 Later an envoy to Song recovered the seized territory, and Pode was ordered to go demarcate the border.

大康四年，遷忠順軍節度使，尋為南院大王，改同知南京留守事，召拜南府宰相，賜貞良功臣，封吳國公，為北院樞密使。 In the fourth year of Dakang he was made military commissioner of Zhongshun; soon he became great king of the Southern Chancellery, associate regent of the Southern Capital, and grand councilor of the Southern Chancellery, was granted the merit title of Integrity, enfeoffed as Duke of Wu, and appointed military affairs commissioner of the Northern Chancellery.

牛、杜、頗的、合裏只輩銜命出使，幸不辱命。 Niu, Du, Pode, Helizhi, and men of their stamp went abroad on imperial commission and, fortunately, did not disgrace their missions.