Yelu Renxian (耶律仁先)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelu Renxian as a general, official, and statesman. This record brings together 32 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 Renxian	耶律仁先	Yēlǜ Rénxiān
Given name	Renxian	仁先	Rénxiān
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yēlǜ
Personal name	Yelu Renxian	耶律仁先	Yelu Renxian
Personal name	Yelu Renxian	耶律仁先	Yēlǜ Rénxiān

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:096:s0001, liaoshi:096:s0191, liaoshi:096:s0192, liaoshi:096:s0194

Roles

General
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died / 卒 · Age: 60 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸雍八年 · Western Year: AD 1072
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0206

Age

Age: 60 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0206

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 清寧九年七月 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 1063
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0033
Source Date: Text: 咸雍元年 · Western Year: AD 1065
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0195
Source Date: Text: 咸雍八年 · Western Year: AD 1072
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0206
Source Date: Text: 灤河之變 · Western Year: AD 1063
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0191, liaoshi:096:s0192, liaoshi:096:s0194
Source Date: Text: 重熙三年 · Western Year: AD 1034
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0008
Source Date: Text: 重熙十一年 · Western Year: AD 1042
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:096:s0012, liaoshi:096:s0013

Family

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Child of Guiyin (瑰引)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Parent of Tabuye (撻不也)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Sibling of Xinxian (信先)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Parentage: biological · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother
Sibling of Yixian (義先)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Parentage: biological · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother

Career and standing

Title: Commissioner of the Northern Court Secretariat / 北院樞密使
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0051
Title: Prince of Wu / 吳王 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1032 · End: AD 1055
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0026
Title: Prince of Song / 宋王
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0051
Title: Imperial Father / 尚父 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清寧九年 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 1063
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0051

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0001, liaoshi:096:s0191, liaoshi:096:s0192

Works and attributed material

Kind: narrative-continuation · Role: agent · Note: Silent subject 其/he in s0192 continues Renxian from s0191
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0192
Mode: direct-speech · Unit Field: zh
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0015

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: loyalist-commander · Action: countered-rebellion · Place: Luan River / 灤河 · Other Person Id: Chongyuan (重元) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 灤河之變 · Western Year: AD 1063
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0191
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: halted-imperial-progress-and-summoned-Tala-troops-to-settle-crisis · Place: Northern and Southern courts / 北、南院 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 灤河之變 · Western Year: AD 1063
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0192
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: suppressed-rebellion · Other Person Id: Chongyuan (重元) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清寧九年 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 1063
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0042, liaoshi:096:s0049, liaoshi:096:s0050
Relation: rescued · Person Id: Hongji (洪基)
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0191, liaoshi:096:s0192
Relation: fame-peer-of · Person Id: Xiuge (休哥)
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0194

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: merit in settling the great crisis should rank first · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0192
Assessment: ranks with Yelu Xiuge in fame; merit and virtue together complete · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Other Person Id: Xiuge (休哥)
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0194
Assessment: without Renxian and the others, Emperor Daozong would have been in peril · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0191
Text: since Yelu Xiuge as yuyue, Renxian alone had been such a man / 自於越休哥之後，惟仁先一人而已 · Provenance: Mode: commentarial
Explicit · liaoshi:096:s0198

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 96Volume 96 Biographies 26: Yelu Renxian, Yelu Liang, Xiao Hanjianu, Xiao De, Xiao Weixin, Xiao Leyinnu, Yelu Dilie, Yao Jingxing, Yelu Asi · 32 passages

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耶律仁先 Yelu Renxian

耶律仁先，字糺鄰，小字查剌，孟父房之後。 Yelu Renxian, whose style name was Jiulin and whose childhood name was Chala, was a descendant of the Mengfu line.

仁先魁偉爽秀，有智略。 Renxian was tall and striking in bearing, open and refined in manner, and gifted with strategic insight.

仁先以不世遇，言無所隱。 Treated with exceptional favor, Renxian spoke his mind without reserve.

時宋請增歲幣銀絹以償十縣地產，仁先與劉六符使宋，仍議書「貢」。 At that time the Song court asked to increase the annual payments in silver and silk to compensate for the produce of ten counties. Renxian went on embassy to Song with Liu Liufu, and still pressed that the written agreement use the term "tribute."

仁先曰：「曩者石晉報德本朝，割地以獻，周人攘而取之，是非利害，灼然可見。」 Renxian said, "In former times the Later Jin repaid our court's kindness and ceded territory as an offering. The Zhou seized it by force. The rights and wrongs, the gains and losses, are plain for all to see."

十三年，伐夏，留仁先鎮邊。 In the thirteenth year, during the campaign against Xia, Renxian was left to hold the frontier.

十八年，再舉伐夏，仁先與皇太弟重元為前鋒。 In the eighteenth year, when another campaign against Xia was launched, Renxian and the Imperial Younger Brother Chongyuan served as the vanguard.

蕭惠失利於河南，帝猶欲進兵，仁先力諫，乃止。 Xiao Hui suffered defeat south of the Yellow River, yet the emperor still wished to press forward. Renxian remonstrated forcefully, and the advance was halted.

女直恃險，侵掠不止，仁先乞開山通道以控制之，邊民安業。 The Jurchen, trusting in difficult terrain, raided without cease. Renxian asked that mountain passes be opened and roads built to bring them under control, and the frontier people were able to live in peace.

時北、南院樞密官涅魯古、蕭胡睹等忌之，請以仁先為西北路招討使。 At that time the Secretariat officials Nielugu and Xiao Huzhu of the Northern and Southern courts envied him and asked that Renxian be appointed Pacification Commissioner of the Northwest Circuit.