Yelu Wa (耶律窪) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelu Wa as an aristocrat, general, official, and statesman. This record brings together 9 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 Wa	耶律窪	Yēlǜ Wā
Courtesy name	Dirilian	敵輦	Dílǐán
Given name	Wa	窪	Wā
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yēlǜ
Personal name	Yelu Wa	耶律窪	Yēlǜ Wā

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:077:s0004

Roles

Aristocrat
General
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Age: 54
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0196

Age

Age: 54 · Reckoning: stated
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0196

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天顯末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 938
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0188
Source Date: Text: 太宗即位 · Western Year: AD 927
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0187
Source Date: Text: 太宗崩於欒城 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0192
Source Date: Text: 會同中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 938 · End: AD 947
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0189

Family

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Descendant of Shilu (釋魯)
Kinship Term: grandson / 孫 · Generation Distance: 2
Child of Wansi (綰思)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: great king of the Northern Court / 北院大王 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 會同中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 938 · End: AD 947
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0189
Label: tiyin / 惕隱 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0187
Label: yuyue / 於越 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0195

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0184

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0143, liaoshi:077:s0144, liaoshi:077:s0145, liaoshi:077:s0192, liaoshi:077:s0193

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: vanguard · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Zhang Jingda (張敬達) · Place: north of Taiyuan / 太原北 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天顯末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 938
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0188
Kind: military · Role: vanguard · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Liang Hanzhang (梁漢璋) · Place: Yingzhou / 瀛州
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0190
Kind: political · Role: planner · Action: enthroned · Other Person Id: Emperor Shizong (世宗) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗崩於欒城 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0192, liaoshi:077:s0152

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: with Antuan and Hou, schemed firmly to enthrone Shizong · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0168
Item: fifty palace households / 宮戶五十 · Relation: bestowed
Explicit · liaoshi:077:s0195

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 · 9 passages

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耶律安摶耶律窪耶律頹昱耶律撻烈 Yelu Antuan, Yelu Wa, Yelu Tuiyu, and Yelu Talie

吼詣北院大王耶律窪議曰：「天位不可一日曠。 Hou went to Yelu Wa, great king of the Northern Court, and said, "The throne cannot stand vacant even for a day.

窪然之。 Wa agreed.

北院大王窪聞而遽起曰：「吾二人方議此事。 Wa, great king of the Northern Court, rose at once and said, "We two were just discussing this very matter.

耶律窪，字敵輦，隋國王釋魯孫，南院夷離堇綰思子。 Yelu Wa, whose courtesy name was Dirilian, was grandson of Prince of Sui Shilu and son of Southern Court yilijin Wansi.

天顯末，帝援河東，窪為先鋒，敗張敬達軍於太原北。 Late in the Tianxian era the emperor marched to aid Hedong; Wa served as vanguard and defeated Zhang Jingda's army north of Taiyuan.

窪與耶律吼定策立世宗，乃令諸將曰：「大行上賓，神器無主，永康王人皇王之嫡長，天人所屬，當立； Wa and Yelu Hou resolved to enthrone Shizong, then told the generals, "The late emperor has departed; the throne stands vacant. Prince Yongkang is the direct eldest son of Emperor Ren and Heaven's chosen heir—he should be enthroned;

世宗即位，賜宮戶五十，拜於越。 When Emperor Shizong took the throne, he granted Wa fifty palace households and invested him as yuyue.

太宗崩，非安摶、吼、窪謀而克斷，策立世宗，非屋質直而能諫，杜太后之私，折李胡之暴，以成橫渡之約，則亂將誰定？ When Taizong died, had Antuan, Hou, and Wa not schemed with firm resolve to enthrone Shizong; had Wuzhi not been upright and able to remonstrate, checking the empress dowager's partiality and breaking Li Hu's violence to complete the peace at the ford crossing—who would have ended the chaos?