Yelü Yange (耶律燕哥)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelü Yange as an aristocrat, courtier, judge, and named individual. This record brings together 22 passages from 8 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yelü Yange	耶律燕哥	Yēlǜ Yāngē
Courtesy	Shaning	善寧	Shànníng
Title	Tiyin	惕隱
Personal	Yange	燕哥	Yāngē
Personal	Yange	燕哥
Given	Yange	燕哥
Personal name	Yange	燕哥	Yange
Personal	Yange	燕哥	Yange
Given	Yangge	燕哥	Yāngē
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yēlǜ
Surname	Yelü	耶律
Personal	Yelü Yange	耶律燕哥	Yelü Yàngē
Personal	Yelü Yange	耶律燕哥
Alternate	Yelü Yange	燕哥
Personal	Yelü Yangge	耶律燕哥	Yēlǜ Yāngē

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:023:s0135, liaoshi:066:s0327, liaoshi:111:s0002
Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0009, liaoshi:062:s0069, liaoshi:072:s0089, liaoshi:105:s0154, liaoshi:110:s0075

Roles

Aristocrat
Courtier
Judge
Named Individual
Official
Royal Family Member
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Cause: illness / 疾 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 壽隆初 · Western Year: AD 1095
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0091

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 大康初 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1075
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0080
Source Date: Text: 大康間太子之獄 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1075
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:072:s0089
Source Date: Text: 大安三年 · Reign Id: liao-daan · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1087
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0090
Source Date: Text: 大康三年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1077
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:023:s0135, liaoshi:023:s0155, liaoshi:062:s0062, liaoshi:062:s0069
Source Date: Text: 五年夏 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 1079
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0089
Source Date: Text: 大康 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:111:s0075
Source Date: Text: 大康初 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Western Interval: Start: AD 1075 · End: AD 1084
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:105:s0153, liaoshi:105:s0154
Source Date: Text: 清寧間 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Western Interval: Start: AD 1055 · End: AD 1064
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0079
Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1079
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:024:s0009
Source Date: Text: 八年 · Western Year: AD 1082
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:024:s0084
Source Date: Text: 壽隆初 · Western Year: AD 1095
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0091
Source Date: Text: 遼皇族表 · Western Interval: Start: AD 916 · End: AD 1125
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:066:s0327

Family

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Descendant of Duowen (鐸穩)
Kinship Term: fourth-generation ancestor / 四世祖 · Generation Distance: 4 · Line: paternal
Descendant of Dezu (德祖)
Kinship Term: descended from / 係出 · Line: paternal
Child of Huolisi (豁里斯)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Origins and identity

Label: Liao imperial clan / 遼皇族
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:066:s0327
Lineage: Lesser Father House / 季父房
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0075

Career and standing

Label: Northern Palace Secretary / 北面林牙 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康初 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1075
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0080
Label: Military Governor of the Western Capital / 西京留守 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大安三年 · Reign Id: liao-daan · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1087
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0090
Label: Chancellor of the Southern Commission / 南府宰相 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年夏 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 1079
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0089
Label: Left Guards Commissioner / 左護衛太保 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清寧間 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Western Interval: Start: AD 1055 · End: AD 1064
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0079
Label: Khitan mobile palace deployment director / 契丹行宮都部署 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0155
Label: Left Yilibi / 左夷離畢 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0082
Label: Overall Deployer of the Khitan Traveling Palace / 契丹行宮都部署 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0088
Label: Southern Court chancellor / 南府宰相 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0009
Label: tiyin / 惕隱 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0084
Label: Tiyin / 惕隱 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0089
Label: Khitan mobile palace deployment director / 契丹行宮都部署 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0009
Label: Left yilibi / 左夷離畢 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0155
Label: Tiyin / 惕隱 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:066:s0327
Status: retired · Action: retired
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0090

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: active-in
Explicit · liaoshi:062:s0069
Polity Id: liao · Relation: associated-with
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:066:s0327
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0089, liaoshi:105:s0154, liaoshi:110:s0075
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:111:s0075

Events and relationships

Kind: judicial · Role: interrogator · Action: falsified-confession · Other Person Id: Crown Prince (皇太子)
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0086, liaoshi:110:s0087, liaoshi:110:s0108, liaoshi:110:s0109
Kind: political · Role: forger · Action: forged-crown-prince-confession · Other Person Id: Yelü Jun (浚)
Explicit · liaoshi:062:s0069
Kind: legal · Role: investigator · Action: interrogated
Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0135
Kind: legal · Role: investigator · Action: investigated-crown-prince-case · Other Person Id: Crown Prince (皇太子)
Explicit · liaoshi:105:s0154
Kind: legal · Role: investigator · Action: twisted-confession · Other Person Id: Yelü Jun (浚)
Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0089, liaoshi:072:s0092
Relation: client-of · Person Id: Yelü Yixin (耶律乙辛)
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0081
Relation: inner-circle-of · Person Id: Yelü Yixin (耶律乙辛)
Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0075
Relation: partisan-of · Person Id: Yelü Yixin (耶律乙辛)
Explicit · liaoshi:062:s0069, liaoshi:072:s0092

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: cunning, fawning, and quick-witted · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0078

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 23Volume 23 Annals 23: Daozong 3 · 2 passages

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即命乙辛及耶律仲禧、蕭餘里也、耶律孝傑、楊遵勖、燕哥、抄只、蕭十三等鞫治，杖皇太子，囚之宮中。 Yixin and Yelü Zhongxi, Xiao Yuliye, Yelü Xiaojie, Yang Zunxu, Yange, Chaozhi, Xiao Shisan, and others were immediately ordered to investigate; the crown prince was beaten and imprisoned in the palace.

閏十二月戊午，以北府宰相遼西郡王蕭餘里也知北院樞密使事，左夷離畢耶律燕哥為契丹行宮都部署。 In the intercalary twelfth month, on wuwu day Northern Court chancellor Prince of Liaoxi Xiao Yuliye was made to administer Northern Court privy affairs; Left yilibi Yelü Yange was made Khitan mobile palace deployment director.

History of Liao, Chapter 24Volume 24 Annals 24: Daozong 4 · 2 passages

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以契丹行宮都部署耶律燕哥為南府宰相，北面林牙耶律永寧為夷離畢，同知南院樞密使事蕭撻不也及殿前副點檢、駙馬都尉蕭酬斡並封蘭陵郡王。 Khitan mobile palace deployment director Yelü Yange was made Southern Court chancellor; Northern linya Yelü Yongning was made yilibi; associate Southern Court privy commissioner Xiao Tabuye and Palace Front deputy commander and imperial son-in-law Xiao Chouwo were all enfeoffed Prince of Lanling Commandery.

壬申，以耶律頗德為南府宰相兼知北院樞密使，燕哥為惕隱，蕭撻不也兼知契丹行宮都部署事。 On renshen day Yelü Pode was made Southern Court chancellor and also administrator of Northern Court privy affairs; Yange tiyin; Xiao Tabuye also administrator of Khitan mobile palace deployment affairs.

History of Liao, Chapter 62Volume 62 Treatises 32: Punishment and Law 2 · 1 passage

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燕哥等詐為太子爰書以聞，上大怒，廢太子，徙上京，乙辛尋遣人弒於囚所。 Yange and others forged the crown prince's confession; the emperor deposed him and sent him to Shangjing, where Yixin soon had him murdered in prison.

History of Liao, Chapter 66Volume 66 Tables 4: Imperial Family · 1 passage

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惕隱燕哥。 Yange, tiyin.

History of Liao, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 2: Imperial Family: Yi Zongbei, the Foreign Emperor Zhang Su, Shun Zongjun, Jin Wangaoluwo · 2 passages

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帝信之，幽太子於別室，以耶律燕哥鞫案。 The emperor believed them, confined the crown prince in a separate room, and put Yelü Yange in charge of the investigation.

燕哥乃乙辛之黨，易其言為款伏。 Yange was Yixin's man and twisted his words into a confession.

History of Liao, Chapter 105Volume 105 Biographies 35: Capable Officials · 1 passage

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耶律乙辛誣皇太子，詔遵勖與燕哥按其事，遵勖不敢正言，時議短之。 Yelü Yixin framed the crown prince, and an edict ordered Zunxu and Yange to investigate. Zunxu did not dare speak plainly, and contemporary opinion faulted him for it.

History of Liao, Chapter 110Volume 110 Biographies 40: Treacherous Ministers 1 · 12 passages

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奸臣上 ○耶律乙辛張孝傑耶律燕哥蕭十三 Treacherous Ministers, Part 1 ○ Yelü Yixin, Zhang Xiaojie, Yelü Yangge, and Xiao Shisan

乙辛黨耶律燕哥獨奏當入八議，得減死論，擊以鐵骨朵，幽於來州。 Yixin's ally Yelü Yangge alone argued that the Eight Deliberations should apply; the sentence was reduced from death, Yixin was beaten with the iron mace, and imprisoned at Laizhou.

耶律燕哥，字善寧，季父房之後。 Yelü Yangge, whose courtesy name was Shaning, was descended from the Lesser Father House.

燕哥狡佞而敏。 Yangge was cunning, fawning, and quick-witted.