Yelu Shila (耶律石剌)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelu Shila as an official. This record brings together 4 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	Yelu Shila	耶律石剌	Yēlǜ Shílà
Given name	Shila	石剌	Shílà
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yēlǜ
Surname	Yelü	耶律
Personal name	Yelu Shila	耶律石剌	Yēlǜ Shílà
Personal	Yelü Shila	耶律石剌	Yelü Shila

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:077:s0010, liaoshi:113:s0025

Roles

Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天祿中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 947 · End: AD 951
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:113:s0025, liaoshi:113:s0043
Source Date: Text: 天祿二年 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0073

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:113:s0025

Events and relationships

Relation: informer-to · Person Id: Wuzhi (屋質)
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0073

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 77Volume 77 Biographies 7: Yelu Wuzhi, Yelu Hou, Yelu Antuan, Yelu Wa, Yelu Tuiyu, Yelu Talie · 2 passages

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耶律石剌潛告屋質，屋質遽引入見，白其事。 Yelu Shila secretly informed Wuzhi, who at once brought him before the emperor and reported the plot.

屋質奏曰：「當使劉哥與石剌對狀，不可輒恕。」 Wuzhi memorialized, "Liuge and Shila must confront each other in testimony; he must not be pardoned lightly."

History of Liao, Chapter 113Volume 113 Biographies 43: Rebellious Officials 2 · 2 passages

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復結惕隱劉哥及其弟盆都亂，耶律石剌告屋質，屋持遽入奏之，翰等不伏。 He again joined with Tiyin Liuge and Liuge's younger brother Pendu in a plot; Yelü Shila reported it to Wuzhi, who rushed in to inform the throne, but Han and his fellows would not confess.

天祿中，與其弟盆都、王子天德、侍衛蕭翰謀反，耶律石剌發其事，劉哥以飾辭免。 During the Tianlu era he plotted rebellion with his younger brother Pendu, Prince Tiande, and the guard Xiao Han; Yelü Shila exposed the plot, but Liuge talked his way free.