Yelü Shilu (耶律室魯)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelü Shilu as an aristocrat, general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 8 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 Shilu	耶律室魯	Yelü Shìlǔ
Title	Prince of Han	韓王
Given name	Shilu	室魯	Shìlǔ
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yēlǜ
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yelü
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yēlǜ
Personal name	Yelu Shilu	耶律室魯	Yēlǜ Shìlǔ
Personal	Yelü Shilu	耶律室魯	Yēlǜ Shìlǔ
Personal name	Yelü Shilu	耶律室魯	Yēlǜ Shìlǔ
Courtesy name	Yixin Yin	乙辛隱	Yǐxīn Yǐn

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:014:s0085
Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:060:s0012, liaoshi:081:s0005, liaoshi:081:s0017

Roles

Aristocrat
General
Military Officer
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Place: Shaling / 沙嶺 · Manner: died while accompanying imperial hunt in Songlin
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0016

Age

Age: 44 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0016

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 統和21年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 21 · Western Year: AD 1003
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:014:s0085
Source Date: Text: 統和二十三年時 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 23 · Western Year: AD 1005
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:060:s0011, liaoshi:060:s0012
Source Date: Text: 伐宋／宋和議 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1003 · End: AD 1004
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:081:s0010, liaoshi:081:s0012
Source Date: Text: 統和末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1011 · End: AD 1012
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:094:s0056, liaoshi:094:s0057

Family

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Parent of Orris (歐裏斯)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Parent of Shishennu (十神奴)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Kinship Role: sons · Count: 2
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0017

Career and standing

Label: acting grand preceptor / 檢校太師 · Action: appointed
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:081:s0010
Label: attendant gentleman / 祗候郎君 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0008
Label: column commander / 隊帥 · Action: appointed
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:081:s0010
Label: commissioner of the Northern Chancellery / 北院樞密使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0014
Label: grandee of the Northern Chancellery / 北院大王 · Action: appointed
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:081:s0010
Label: night-duty officer / 宿直官 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0009
Label: southern chancellery great king / 南院大王 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:014:s0085
Label: specially advanced grand councilor of the Secretariat / 特進門下平章事 · Action: appointed
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:081:s0012
Label: Northern Chancellery Grandee / 北院大王 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:060:s0012
Label: northern great king / 北院大王 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0056
Title: Prince of Han / 韓王 · Action: enfeoffed
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0014
Label: Meritorious Subject of Sincere Devotion and Steadfast Loyalty / 推誠竭節保義功臣 · Action: granted
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0012
Label: acting minister over the masses / 守司徒 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0016
Label: director of the secretariat / 政事令 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0016
Title: Prince of Han / 韓王 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0014

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:014:s0085, liaoshi:060:s0012, liaoshi:081:s0005, liaoshi:081:s0010, liaoshi:094:s0056
Place: Six Courts tribe / 六院部
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0005
Organization: Six Courts tribe / 六院部 · Relation: member-of
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0005

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: questioner · Action: asked-about-northern-court-successor
Explicit · liaoshi:094:s0056
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned-against-Song · Place: Zhao and Wei / 趙、魏 · Other Person Ids: Yelü Nugua (耶律奴瓜), Xiao Talan (蕭撻覽) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 伐宋 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1003 · End: AD 1004
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:081:s0010
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: captured · Place: Tongli Circuit / 通利軍
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0011
Kind: administrative · Role: petitioner · Action: requested-sheep-hide-for-silk-exchange · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和二十三年時 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 23 · Western Year: AD 1005
Explicit · liaoshi:060:s0012
Kind: political · Role: petitioner · Action: requested-sheep-silk-trade
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0013
Relation: born-same-year-as · Person Id: Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒)
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0007
Relation: favored-by · Person Id: Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒)
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0007

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: appointment rejoiced by court and realm · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0015, liaoshi:081:s0084
Kind: physical-description · Statement: tall and striking, with a handsome presence
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0006

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · liaoshi:014:s0085, liaoshi:060:s0012

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 14Volume 14 Annals 14: Shengzong 5 · 1 passage

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甲寅，以奚王府監軍耶律室魯為南院大王。 On jiayin day Xi princely establishment military inspector Yelü Shilu was appointed southern chancellery great king.

History of Liao, Chapter 60Volume 60 Treatises 30: Finance and Economics 2 · 1 passage

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時北院大王耶律室魯以俸羊多闕，部人貧乏，請以羸老之羊及皮毛易南中之絹，上下為便。 At that time Yelü Shilu, grandee of the Northern Chancellery, reported that stipend sheep were chronically short and his tribesmen were impoverished; he asked to exchange old or weak sheep and hides for southern silk, which met with approval at every level.

History of Liao, Chapter 81Volume 81 Biographies 11: Yelu Shilu, Wang Jizhong, Xiao Xiaozhong, Chen Zhaogun, Xiao Hezhuo · 5 passages

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耶律室魯 Yelü Shilu

耶律室魯，字乙辛隱，六院部人。 Yelü Shilu, whose style was Yixin Yin, came from the Six Courts tribe.

拜北院樞密使，封韓王。 He was appointed commissioner of the Northern Chancellery and enfeoffed as Prince of Han.

自韓德讓知北院，職多廢曠，室魯拜命之日，朝野相慶。 Ever since Han Derang had overseen the Northern Chancellery, many of its duties had lapsed; when Shilu took office, the court and the realm rejoiced together.

室魯拜樞密使，朝野相慶，必有得民心者。 When Shilu was appointed commissioner, court and countryside rejoiced together; he must surely have won the people's hearts.

History of Liao, Chapter 94Volume 94 Biographies 24: Yelu Huage, Yelu Wola, Yelu Susa, Xiao Aludai, Yelu Naye, Yelu Helusaogu, Yelu Shiliang · 1 passage

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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."