Song, Liao, and Jin · Official

Yelü Yixin 耶律乙辛

Yēlǜ Yǐxīn

Attested AD 1032 - AD 1102

Passages
188
Chapters
24
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelü Yixin as an aristocrat, courtier, general, and named individual. This record brings together 188 passages from 24 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yelü Yixin 耶律乙辛 Yēlǜ Yǐxīn
Title Commissioner of Military Affairs Yelü Yixin 樞密使耶律乙辛
Courtesy Hudugun 胡睹袞 Hǔdǔgǔn
Title Prince of Huntong Commandery 混同郡王
Title Prince of Wei 魏王
Title Prince of Zhao 趙王
Title Privy Councillor Yixin 樞密使乙辛
Surname Yelu 耶律 Yēlǜ
Surname Yelü 耶律
Surname Yelü 耶律 Yelü
Surname Yelü 耶律 Yēlǜ
Personal Yelu Yixin 耶律乙辛 Yēlǜ Yǐxīn
Personal Yelu Yixin 耶律乙辛
Personal name Yelu Yixin 耶律乙辛 Yelu Yixin
Personal Yelu Yixin 耶律乙辛 Yelü Yǐxīn
Personal Yelü Yixin 耶律乙辛 Yelü Yixin
Personal Yelü Yixin 耶律宜新 Yēlǜ Yíxīn
Personal Yelü Yixin 耶律乙辛 Yelü Yǐxīn
Personal name Yelü Yixin 耶律乙辛 Yēlǜ Yǐxīn
Personal name Yelü Yixin 耶律乙辛 Yelü Yixin
Personal Yelü Yixin 耶律乙辛
Given Yixin 乙辛 Yixin
Personal Yixin 乙辛 Yǐxīn
Given Yixin 乙辛 Yǐxīn
Personal name Yixin 乙辛
Personal name Yixin 乙辛 Yixin
Personal Yixin 乙辛
Personal name Yixin 乙辛 Yǐxīn
Given name Yixin 乙辛 Yixin
Given Yixin 乙辛
Given 乙辛 Yixin
Surname 耶律 Yelü

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • Courtier
  • General
  • Named Individual
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: strangled / 縊殺 · Cause: plot to flee to Song and secret store of arms discovered / 謀奔宋及私藏兵甲事覺
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0062
  • Manner: execution · Cause: plotted to flee into Song / 謀亡入宋
    Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0125
  • Manner: execution · Cause: put to death / 誅
    Explicit · liaoshi:065:s0235
  • Manner: executed / 誅之
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0081

Attested activity

Family

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  • Sibling of Danu (大奴)
    Kinship Term: elder brother by the same mother / 同母兄 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger · Subject Role: younger-brother · Object Role: elder-brother
    Kinship Term: elder brother by the same mother / 同母兄 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder
  • Child of Yela (叠剌)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
    Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father
  • Child of Mother of Yelü Yixin (耶律乙辛之母)
    Kinship Term: same mother / 同母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
    Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother
  • Parent of Suiye (綏也)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Sibling of Asi (阿思)
    Kinship Term: younger brother by the same mother / 同母弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger
    Kinship Term: younger brother by the same mother / 同母弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-brother
  • Kinship Role: sons-and-grandsons · Count: 0 · Note: relocated to the border
    Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0032
  • Kinship Role: descendants · Note: 誅其子孫 · Quantity: plural
    Explicit · liaoshi:062:s0072
  • Kinship Role: younger-brothers · Quantity: 異母諸弟
    Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0124

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: Southern Court great king affairs / 南院大王事 · Action: appointed · Action Detail: 知
    Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0006
  • Label: Associate Commissioner of the Palace Inspection Office / 同知點檢司事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道宗即位 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1055
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0121
  • Label: commissioner of the Southern Commissioner's Office / 南院樞密使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清寧五年 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 1059
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0122
  • Label: Southern Court privy commissioner / 南院樞密使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九年七月壬戌 · Western Year: AD 1063
    Explicit · liaoshi:022:s0026
  • Label: regent of the Central Capital / 中京留守 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九年十二月辛未 · Western Year: AD 1073
    Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0046
  • Label: administrator of Xingzhong Prefecture / 知興中府事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年正月 · Western Year: AD 1080
    Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0029
  • Label: Defender Grand Preceptor / 守太師 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸雍五年 · Western Year: AD 1069
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0129
  • Label: clerical officer of the Civil Registry / 文班吏 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 重熙中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1032 · End: AD 1055
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0118
  • Label: administrator of Southern Court great king affairs / 知南院大王事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0014
  • Label: administrator of the Northern Commission / 知北院 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0122
  • Label: Administrator of Xingzhong Prefecture / 知興中府事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0059
  • Label: associate administrator of the Northern Commission / 北院同知 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0121
  • Label: associate commissioner of the Commissioner's Office / 樞密副使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0121
  • Label: brush-and-ink clerk / 筆硯吏 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0119
  • Label: Bureau Commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0017
  • Label: commissioner of the Central Capital / 中京留守 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0113
  • Label: Commissioner of the Central Capital / 中京留守 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0073
  • Label: commissioner of the Northern Commissioner's Office / 北院樞密使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0128
  • Label: Guards Commissioner / 護衛太保 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0120
  • Label: Northern Court privy affairs administrator / 知北院樞密使事 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 清寧七年 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 1061
    Explicit · liaoshi:021:s0156
  • Label: Southern Court privy commissioner / 南院樞密使 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 清寧五年六月己丑 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 1059
    Explicit · liaoshi:021:s0142
  • Label: Zhongjing regent (liushou) / 留守 / 中京留守 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0011
  • Label: Northern Court privy commissioner / 北院樞密使 · Action: dismissed-to · To: regent of the Central Capital / 中京留守 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康二年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1076
    Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0108
  • Label: Privy Commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康三年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1077
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0035
  • Label: Northern Court Privy Commissioner / 北院樞密使 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸雍二年 · Western Year: AD 1066
    Explicit · liaoshi:091:s0060
  • Label: Privy Commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清寧間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1055 · End: AD 1064
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0087
  • Label: administrator of Northern Court privy affairs / 知北院樞密事 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:114:s0017
  • Label: administrator of Northern Court privy affairs / 知北院樞密使事 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0046
  • Label: associate privy commissioner / 樞密副使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:021:s0142
  • Label: Commissioner of Military Affairs / 樞密使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:107:s0039, liaoshi:107:s0055
  • Label: Northern Commissioner of the Bureau of Military Affairs / 北院樞密使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0082
  • Label: Northern Court privy commissioner / 北院樞密使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0006
  • Label: Northern Privy Councilor / 北院樞密使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:062:s0060
  • Label: Privy Councillor / 樞密使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0073, liaoshi:105:s0094
  • Label: Privy Councilor / 樞密使 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:062:s0047
  • Label: Commissioner of the Northern Commissioner's Office / 北院樞密使 · Action: reappointed
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0035
  • Label: Privy Council / 樞府 · Action: reentered
    Explicit · liaoshi:093:s0099
  • Label: Northern Court privy commissioner / 北院樞密使 · Action: restored · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大康二年十月戊戌 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1076
    Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0116
  • Label: Commissioner of the Bureau of Military Affairs / 樞密使 · Action: restored
    Explicit · liaoshi:089:s0114
  • Label: Grand Prince of the Southern Commission / 南院大王 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0057
  • Label: Military Governor of the Central Capital / 中京留守 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0028
  • Label: yuyue / 於越 · Action: granted
    Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0006
  • Title: merit for aiding the sage, exhausting loyalty, and pacifying rebellion in a time of crisis / 匡時翊聖竭忠平亂功臣 · Action: granted
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0128
  • Title: Prince of Wei / 魏王 · Action: advanced
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0128
  • Title: Prince of Wei / 魏王 · Action: demoted-from
    Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0022
  • Title: Prince of Huntong Commandery / 混同郡王 · Action: demoted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年十月 · Western Year: AD 1079
    Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0022
  • Title: Prince of Zhao / 趙王 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 清寧五年 · Reign Id: liao-qingning · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 1059
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0122
  • Title: Prince of Wei / 魏王 · Action: held
    Explicit · liaoshi:023:s0108, liaoshi:024:s0006
  • Title: Prince of Huntong / 混同王 · Action: redesignated
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0058
  • Status: humble-origins · Action: noted
    Explicit · liaoshi:099:s0088
  • Status: imprisoned · Place: Laizhou / 來州
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0061
  • Status: death-sentence-reduced · Action: beaten-and-imprisoned · Place: Laizhou / 來州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七年冬 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 1081
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0060, liaoshi:110:s0061
  • Status: executed · Action: executed
    Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0125
  • Status: imprisoned · Action: imprisoned · Place: Laizhou / 來州
    Explicit · liaoshi:024:s0077
  • Label: tomb destroyed and corpse flogged / 廢墓剖棺戮屍 · Action: suffered
    Explicit · liaoshi:062:s0072
  • Status: corpse-punishment · Action: tomb-opened-and-dismembered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾統二年四月 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1102
    Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0032, liaoshi:027:s0033
  • Status: corpse-disgrace · Action: tomb-opened · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾統二年 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1102
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0063

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: crimes beyond one death · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0083
  • Assessment: outwardly mild, inwardly crafty · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0117
  • Assessment: seized power through treachery · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0073
  • Assessment: treacherous minister caring only for himself · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0104
  • Assessment: treacherous minister · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · liaoshi:110:s0001, liaoshi:110:s0005
  • Item: armor and weapons / 甲兵 · Relation: secretly-hoarded
    Explicit · liaoshi:111:s0081

Source notes

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 21Volume 21 Annals 21: Daozong 1 · 2 passages
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己丑，以南院樞密使蕭阿速為北府宰相，樞密副使耶律乙辛南院樞密使，惕隱查葛遼興軍節度使，魯王謝家奴武定軍節度使，東京留守吳王貼不西京留守。 On jichou day Southern Court privy commissioner Xiao Asu was made Northern Court chancellor; associate privy commissioner Yelü Yixin Southern Court privy commissioner; tiyin Chage Liaoxing Army military commissioner; Prince of Lu Xiejianu Wuding Army military commissioner; Eastern Capital regent Prince of Wu Tiebu Western Capital regent.
History of Liao, Chapter 22Volume 22 Annals 22: Daozong 2 · 2 passages
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時南院樞密使許王仁先、知北樞密院事趙王耶律乙辛、南府宰相蕭唐古、北院宣徽使蕭韓家奴、北院樞密副使蕭惟信、敦睦宮使耶律良等率宿衛士卒數千人禦之。 At the time Southern Court privy commissioner Prince of Xu Renxian, Yelü Yixin who administered Northern Privy Council affairs, Southern Court chancellor Xiao Tanggu, Northern Court palace commissioner Xiao Hanjianu, Northern Court associate privy commissioner Xiao Weixin, Dunmu Palace commissioner Yelü Liang, and others led several thousand night-guard troops to resist.
History of Liao, Chapter 23Volume 23 Annals 23: Daozong 3 · 8 passages
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乙亥，北院樞密使耶律乙辛奏，右護衛太保查剌等告知北院樞密使事蕭速撒等八人謀立皇太子，上以無狀，不治，出速撒等三人補外，護衛撒撥等六人各鞭百餘，徙於邊。 On yihai day Northern Court privy commissioner Yelü Yixin memorialized that Right Defender of the Guard grand guardian Zhala and others reported that associate Northern Court privy commissioner Xiao Susa and eight others plotted to install the crown prince; the Emperor said it was groundless and did not punish; three including Susa were sent out to fill external posts; six including guard Sapo were each flogged more than a hundred strokes and exiled to the border.
History of Liao, Chapter 24Volume 24 Annals 24: Daozong 4 · 5 passages
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壬辰，以北院樞密使魏王耶律乙辛知南院大王事，加於越，知北院樞密使事耶律霂為北院樞密使，北院樞密副使耶律特裏底知北院樞密使事，左夷離畢耶律世遷同知北院樞密使事。 On renchen day Northern Court privy commissioner Prince of Wei Yelü Yixin was made to administer Southern Court great king affairs and promoted yuyue; Yelü Mu, who administered Northern Court privy affairs, was made Northern Court privy commissioner; Northern Court associate privy commissioner Yelü Telidi was made administrator of Northern Court privy affairs; Left yilibi Yelü Shiqian was made associate Northern Court privy commissioner.
History of Liao, Chapter 27Volume 27 Annals 27: Emperor Tianzuo 1 · 3 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 62Volume 62 Treatises 32: Punishment and Law 2 · 8 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 65Volume 65 Tables 3: Princesses · 2 passages
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駙馬都尉撻不也坐昭懷太子事被害，其弟訛都斡欲逼尚公主，公主以訛都斡黨乙辛，惡之。未幾，訛都斡以事伏誅。天祚幼，乙辛用事。公主每以匡救為心，竟誅乙辛。 Imperial Son-in-law Tabuye was executed for involvement in Prince Zhaohuai's affair; his younger brother Eduwo tried to force a marriage to the princess, but she detested him as a partisan of Yixin. Before long Eduwo was executed. Tianzuo was still young and Yixin held power; the princess constantly worked to rescue the court, and in the end Yixin was put to death.
History of Liao, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 2: Imperial Family: Yi Zongbei, the Foreign Emperor Zhang Su, Shun Zongjun, Jin Wangaoluwo · 9 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 89Volume 89 Biographies 19: Yelu Shucheng, Yang Ji, Yelu Hanliu, Yang Ji, Yelu Heshang · 4 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 90Volume 90 Biographies 20: Xiao Ala, Yelu Yixian, Xiao Taowei, Xiao Talage, Yelu Dilu · 1 passage
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History of Liao, Chapter 91Volume 91 Biographies 21: Yelu Hanba, Yelu Tanggu, Xiao Paizhe, Yelu Jue, Yelu Pulidu · 1 passage
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History of Liao, Chapter 92Volume 92 Biographies 22: Xiao Duola, Xiao Puda, Yelu Houshen, Yelu Guyue, Yelu Dumei, Xiao Hanjia, Xiao Wuye · 2 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 93Volume 93 Biographies 23: Xiao Hui, Xiao Yulu, Xiao Tuyu, Yelu Duozhen · 1 passage
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History of Liao, Chapter 96Volume 96 Biographies 26: Yelu Renxian, Yelu Liang, Xiao Hanjianu, Xiao De, Xiao Weixin, Xiao Leyinnu, Yelu Dilie, Yao Jingxing, Yelu Asi · 6 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 97Volume 97 Biographies 27: Yelu Wotela, Hai Li, Dou Jingyong, Yelu Yinji, Yang Ji, Zhao Hui, Wang Guan, Yelu Xisun · 7 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 98Volume 98 Biographies 28: Xiao Wuna, Yelu Yan, Liu Shen, Yelu Hulu · 10 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 99Volume 99 Biographies 29: Xiao Yanshou, Yelu Sala, Xiao Susa, Yelu Tabuye, Xiao Tabuye, Xiao Hugu, Yelu Shiliu · 27 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 100Volume 100 Biographies 30: Yelu Tanggu, Xiao Delidi, Xiao Chouwo, Yelu Zhangnu, Yelu Paizhe · 1 passage
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History of Liao, Chapter 104Volume 104 Biographies 34: Literature 2 · 3 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 105Volume 105 Biographies 35: Capable Officials · 2 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 107Volume 107 Biographies 37: Exemplary Women · 4 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 110Volume 110 Biographies 40: Treacherous Ministers 1 · 52 passages
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History of Liao, Chapter 111Volume 111 Biographies 41: Treacherous Ministers 2 · 27 passages
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乙辛欲害太子，以達魯古凶果可使，遣與近侍直長撒把詣上京，同留守蕭撻得夜引力士至囚室，紿以有赦，召太子出，殺之，函其首以歸，詐云疾薨。 When Yixin wished to kill the crown prince, he judged Dalugu cruel and resolute enough for the task; he sent him with Inner Attendant Direct Chief Saba to the Upper Capital, where together with the acting commander Xiao Tade they led strongmen by night to the prison chamber, deceived the prince with word of an amnesty, called him out and killed him, boxed his head and returned, and falsely reported that he had died of sudden illness.
History of Liao, Chapter 114Volume 114 Biographies 44: Rebellious Officials 3 · 1 passage
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