Yelü Shiliang (耶律世良)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelü Shiliang as an aristocrat, general, official, and scholar. This record brings together 13 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yelü Shiliang	耶律世良	Yelü Shiliang
Title	Commissioner-in-Chief Yelu Shiliang	樞密使耶律世良
Title	Prince of Qi	岐王
Title	Privy Councilor	樞密使
Given	Shiliang	世良	Shìliáng
Childhood name	Wo	斡	Wò
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yēlǜ
Personal	Yelu Shiliang	耶律世良	Yēlǜ Shìliáng
Personal	Yelu Shiliang	耶律世良
Personal name	Yelu Shiliang	耶律世良	Yēlǜ Shìliáng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0026, liaoshi:089:s0124, liaoshi:092:s0029
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:094:s0051

Roles

Aristocrat
General
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Cause: sudden violent illness / 暴疾 · Manner: died of acute illness / 以暴疾卒
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0072

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 1014
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0066
Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 1015
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0069
Source Date: Text: 明年 · Western Year: AD 1013
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:094:s0060, liaoshi:094:s0058
Source Date: Text: 明年 · Western Year: AD 1016
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0071, liaoshi:094:s0069
Source Date: Text: 統和末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1011 · End: AD 1012
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:094:s0053, liaoshi:094:s0057
Source Date: Text: 統和末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1011 · End: AD 1012
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0057
Source Date: Text: 開泰 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1012 · End: AD 1021
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:088:s0026
Source Date: Text: 開泰三年 · Western Year: AD 1014
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:089:s0123, liaoshi:089:s0124
Source Date: Text: 開泰初 · Western Year: AD 1012
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0058
Source Date: Text: 開泰間 (with Guyue) · Western Interval: Start: AD 1012 · End: AD 1021
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:092:s0028, liaoshi:092:s0029

Family

Kin of Dilie (敵烈)
Kinship Term: younger clansman / 族弟 · Subject Role: younger-clansman · Object Role: elder-clansman · Subject Relative Age: younger
Kinship Term: younger clansman / 族弟 · Subject Role: elder-clansman · Object Role: younger-clansman · Subject Relative Age: elder

Career and standing

Label: chief overseer / 都監 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0059
Label: deputy deployment commissioner / 副部署 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 1015
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0069
Label: honorary grand commandant and associate director of state affairs / 檢校太尉、同政事門下平章事 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 開泰初 · Western Year: AD 1012
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0058
Label: northern great king / 北院大王 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 統和末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1011 · End: AD 1012
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0057
Label: northern privy council director / 北院樞密使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0065
Label: Commissioner-in-Chief / 樞密使 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:092:s0029
Title: Prince of Qi / 岐王 · Action: enfeoffed
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0065

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0124, liaoshi:092:s0029, liaoshi:094:s0057
Place: Six Yuan Division / 六院部
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0051
Organization: Six Yuan Division / 六院部 · Relation: member-of
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0051

Learning and skills

Skill: dynastic precedents and genealogies / 國朝典故及世譜
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0052

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Huage (化哥)
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0060, liaoshi:094:s0061
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Dilie (敵烈)
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0053

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: advanced-alone-against-Goryeo
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0070
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated-pursuers-at-Guo · Place: Guo Prefecture / 郭州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明年 · Western Year: AD 1016
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0071
Kind: administrative · Role: commissioner · Action: levied-horses-and-camels-from-Ugu · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 1014
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0066
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: pacified-Dilie-revolt · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 1014
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0067, liaoshi:094:s0068
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: pursued-and-defeated-at-Anzhen-River · Other Person Id: Huage (化哥) · Place: Anzhen River / 安真河
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0062, liaoshi:094:s0063
Kind: military · Role: overseer · Action: resisted-frontier-tribes-with-Huage · Other Person Id: Huage (化哥)
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0059
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: suppressed-Dilie-rebellion · Other Person Id: Yelu Hanliu (耶律韓留)
Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0124
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: suppressed-rebellion · Other Person Id: Yelu Guyue (耶律古昱)
Explicit · liaoshi:092:s0029
Relation: recommended-by · Person Id: Han Derang (韓德讓)
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0055, liaoshi:094:s0056
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Huage (化哥)
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0059

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 · 1 passage

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從樞密使耶律世良伐高麗。 He followed Privy Councilor Yelü Shiliang on the campaign against Goryeo.

History of Liao, Chapter 89Volume 89 Biographies 19: Yelu Shucheng, Yang Ji, Yelu Hanliu, Yang Ji, Yelu Heshang · 1 passage

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敵烈部叛，將宮分軍，從樞密使耶律世良討平之，加千牛衛大將軍。 When the Dilie tribe rebelled, he led the palace division forces and, following Commissioner of the Bureau of Military Affairs Yelu Shiliang, put down the rebellion; he received the additional title General of the Thousand-Ox Guard.

History of Liao, Chapter 92Volume 92 Biographies 22: Xiao Duola, Xiao Puda, Yelu Houshen, Yelu Guyue, Yelu Dumei, Xiao Hanjia, Xiao Wuye · 1 passage

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會部人叛，從樞密使耶律世良討平之，以功詔鎮撫西北部。 When tribesmen under his authority rebelled, he followed Commissioner-in-Chief Yelu Shiliang in putting down the revolt; for this service he was ordered to pacify and govern the northwest frontier.

History of Liao, Chapter 94Volume 94 Biographies 24: Yelu Huage, Yelu Wola, Yelu Susa, Xiao Aludai, Yelu Naye, Yelu Helusaogu, Yelu Shiliang · 10 passages

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耶律化哥耶律斡臘耶律速撒蕭阿魯帶耶律那也耶律何魯掃古耶律世良 Yelu Huage, Yelu Wola, Yelu Susa, Xiao Aludai, Yelu Naye, Yelu Helusaogu, and Yelu Shiliang.

耶律世良，小字斡，六院部人。 Yelu Shiliang, known in youth as Wo, came from the Six Yuan Division.

德讓曰：「世良可。」 Derang answered, "Shiliang will do."

北院大王耶律室魯復問北院之選，德讓曰：「無出世良。」 The northern great king Yelu Shilu asked again who should lead the northern court; Derang said, "No one stands above Shiliang."

時邊部拒命，詔北院樞密使耶律化哥將兵，以世良為都監，往禦之。 When frontier tribes defied orders, the court ordered the northern privy council director Yelu Huage to take the field, with Shiliang as chief overseer, to repel them.

明年，化哥還，將罷兵，世良上書曰：「化哥以為無事而還，不思師老糧乏，敵人已去，焉能久守？ The following year Huage returned and was about to disband the army; Shiliang memorialized, "Huage thinks all is well and comes home, heedless of our weary troops and empty stores; the enemy has only withdrawn—how can they be held at bay for long?

帝即命化哥益兵，與世良追之。 The emperor at once ordered Huage to add troops and pursue with Shiliang.

以功王岐，拜北院樞密使。 For his service he was enfeoffed as prince of Qi and appointed northern privy council director.

世良率兵壓境，遣人招之，降數部，各復故地。 Shiliang marched to the border, sent envoys to win them over, and several tribes submitted and were restored to their former lands.

都統劉慎行逗留失期，執還京師，世良獨進兵。 The commander-in-chief Liu Shenxing lingered and missed the rendezvous; he was arrested and sent back to the capital, and Shiliang pressed forward alone.