Yelu Tizi (耶律題子)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelu Tizi as an envoy, general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 8 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 Tizi	耶律題子	Yēlǜ Tízǐ
Courtesy name	Shengyin	勝隱	Shengyin
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yelü
Personal name	Yelu Tizi	耶律題子	Yelü Tizi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:083:s0087
Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:085:s0028

Roles

Envoy
General
Military Officer
Official
Painter

Life and dates

Death

Place: Yi frontier / 易境 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至易境而卒 · Western Year: AD 986
Explicit · liaoshi:085:s0042

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 統和二年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 984
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:085:s0032
Source Date: Text: 四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:085:s0033, liaoshi:085:s0040, liaoshi:085:s0041
Source Date: Text: 統和四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:083:s0087, liaoshi:083:s0082
Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 977
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:085:s0031
Source Date: Text: 保寧間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 969 · End: AD 979
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:085:s0030
Source Date: Text: 後聞宋兵屯易州 · Western Year: AD 986
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:085:s0042

Family

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Child of Wuli (兀裏)
Kinship Term: grandson / 孫 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: grandson · Object Role: grandfather · Generation Distance: 2
Child of Father of Yelu Tizi
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Chief Commander of Southwestern Pacification / 西南面招討都監 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
Explicit · liaoshi:085:s0033
Label: Imperial Cup Bearer Gentleman / 禦盞郎君 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保寧間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 969 · End: AD 979
Explicit · liaoshi:085:s0030

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:085:s0028

Learning and skills

Skill: painting / 畫 · Level: accomplished
Explicit · liaoshi:085:s0029, liaoshi:085:s0043
Skill: archery / 射 · Level: expert
Explicit · liaoshi:085:s0029

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: ambushed · Place: Weizhou / 蔚州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
Explicit · liaoshi:085:s0034, liaoshi:085:s0035, liaoshi:085:s0036, liaoshi:085:s0037
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: He Lingtu (賀令圖) · Place: Ding'an / 定安 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 986
Explicit · liaoshi:085:s0033
Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: dispatched · Place: Han / 漢 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 977
Explicit · liaoshi:085:s0031

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 83Volume 83 Biographies 13: Yelu Xiuge, Yelu Xiezhen, Yelu Xidi, Yelu Xuegu · 1 passage

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陰聞宋軍來救，令都監耶律題子夜伏兵險厄，俟敵至而發。 Learning secretly that Song relief was coming, he ordered Commandant Yelu Tizi to lay an ambush by night in a defile and strike when the enemy arrived.

History of Liao, Chapter 85Volume 85 Biographies 15: Xiao Talin, Xiao Guanyinnu, Yelu Tizi, Yelu Xieli, Yelu Nugua, Xiao Liu, Gao Xun, Xi Heshuonu, Xiao Taliege, Yelu Sahe · 7 passages

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蕭撻凜蕭觀音奴耶律題子耶律諧理耶律奴瓜蕭柳高勛奚和朔奴蕭塔列葛耶律撒合 Xiao Talin, Xiao Guanyinnu, Yelu Tizi, Yelu Xieli, Yelu Nugua, Xiao Liu, Gao Xun, Xi Heshuonu, Xiao Taliege, and Yelu Sahe.

耶律題子，字勝隱，北府宰相兀裏之孫。 Yelu Tizi, whose style name was Shengyin, was a grandson of Northern Chancellery Chancellor Wuli.

四年，宋將楊繼業陷山西城邑，題子從北院樞密使耶律斜軫擊之，敗賀令圖於定安，授西南面招討都監。 In the fourth year, when the Song general Yang Ye overran towns in Shanxi, Tizi marched under Northern Chancellery Grand Councilor Yelu Xiezhen, defeated He Lingtu at Ding'an, and was appointed Chief Commander of Southwestern Pacification.

宋兵守蔚州急，召外援，題子聞之，夜伏兵道傍。 The Song garrison at Weizhou was hard pressed and called for reinforcements. Hearing of this, Tizi laid an ambush along the road by night.

賀令圖復集敗卒來襲蔚州，題子逆戰，破之，應州守將自遁。 He Lingtu rallied his broken troops to strike Weizhou again; Tizi met him in battle and crushed the force, after which the Yingzhou garrison commander fled on his own.

當斜軫擒繼業於朔州，題子功居多。 When Xiezhen took Yang Ye prisoner at Shuozhou, the greater share of the credit belonged to Tizi.

初，題子破令圖，宋將有因傷而仆，題子繪其狀以示宋人，咸嗟神妙。 Earlier, after defeating He Lingtu, Tizi had seen a wounded Song officer collapse in the field. He painted the man's likeness and showed it to captured Song troops, who marveled at the portrait's uncanny accuracy.