Yelü Yudu (耶律余睹)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelü Yudu as an aristocrat, general, military officer, and named individual. This record brings together 20 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 Yudu	耶律余睹	Yēlǜ Yúdǔ
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yelü
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yelü
Personal	Yelu Yudu	耶律余睹
Personal	Yelu Yudu	耶律余睹	Yelü Yudu
Personal name	Yelü Yudu	耶律余睹	Yelü Yudu
Given	Yudu	余睹	Yúdǔ
Personal name	Yudu	余睹	Yudu
Given	Yudu	余睹	Yudu
Alternate	Yudugu	余都姑	Yudugu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0063, liaoshi:062:s0094, liaoshi:072:s0190, liaoshi:102:s0078

Roles

Aristocrat
General
Military Officer
Named Individual
Rebel
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died after Xia refused asylum
Explicit · liaoshi:102:s0099

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 保大初 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1121
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:102:s0080, liaoshi:102:s0086
Source Date: Text: 保大二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1122
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:102:s0023, liaoshi:102:s0024, liaoshi:102:s0095, liaoshi:102:s0096, liaoshi:102:s0097
Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 1119
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:028:s0140
Source Date: Text: 保大元年 · Western Year: AD 1121
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:072:s0190
Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1116
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:028:s0063
Source Date: Text: 天祚未年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1110 · End: AD 1125
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:062:s0094, liaoshi:062:s0091

Family

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Kin of Prince of Jin (晉王)
Kinship Term: nephew / 甥 · Subject Role: uncle-by-marriage · Object Role: nephew · Intermediary Person Ids: Wife of Yelu Yudu (余睹之妻), Consort Wen (文妃)
Descendant of Prince Ban (王子班)
Kinship Term: descendant / 苗裔
Spouse of Younger Sister of Consort Wen (文妃之女弟)
Kinship Term: married to / 適 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: formed
Spouse of Wife of Yelu Yudu (余睹之妻)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Khitan / 契丹
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:062:s0094
Label: near kinsman of the imperial house / 國族之近者
Explicit · liaoshi:102:s0078

Career and standing

Label: deputy commander-in-chief / 副都統 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保大初 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1121
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:102:s0080
Label: Jurchen supervising commander / 女直監軍 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保大二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1122
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:102:s0023, liaoshi:102:s0097
Label: Guida Prefecture defending general / 貴德州守將 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0063
Label: Southern Army commander-in-chief / 南軍都統 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0190
Label: Southern Route army commander / 南面軍帥 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0140

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: active-in
Explicit · liaoshi:062:s0094
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0190, liaoshi:102:s0078
Place: Western Xia / 西夏 · Relation: fled-to
Explicit · liaoshi:102:s0097

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker
Explicit · liaoshi:102:s0098, liaoshi:102:s0099

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: captured · Other Person Id: Zhang Sabo (張撒八)
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0140
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0063
Kind: political · Role: conspirator · Action: defected-to-Jin
Explicit · liaoshi:072:s0190
Kind: military · Role: defector · Action: fled to Jurchen
Explicit · liaoshi:102:s0022, liaoshi:102:s0086
Kind: military · Role: vanguard · Action: led attack · Other Person Id: Wanyan Wushi (婁室) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保大二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1122
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:102:s0095

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: vacillating and self-ruining · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:102:s0106

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 28Volume 28 Annals 28: Emperor Tianzuo 2 · 2 passages

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戊午，貴德州守將耶律余睹以廣州渤海叛附永昌，我師擊敗之。 On wuwu day Guida Prefecture defending general Yelü Yudu, because Guang Prefecture Bohai rebelled and joined Yongchang, our army defeated him.

賊張撒八誘中京射糧軍，僭號，南面軍帥餘睹擒撒八。 Bandit Zhang Sabo induced Central Capital grain-shooting troops to usurp title; Southern Route army commander Yudu captured Sabo.

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

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會文妃之女兄適耶律撻曷裏，女弟適耶律余睹，奉先乃誣告余睹等謀立晉王，尊天祚為太上皇。 Consort Wen's elder sister was married to Yelü Tahieli and her younger sister to Yelü Yudu; Fengxian then falsely accused Yudu and others of plotting to enthrone the Prince of Jin and make Tianzuo Retired Emperor.

History of Liao, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 2: Imperial Family: Yi Zongbei, the Foreign Emperor Zhang Su, Shun Zongjun, Jin Wangaoluwo · 1 passage

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保大元年，南軍都統耶律余睹與其母文妃密謀立之，事覺，余睹降金，文妃伏誅，敖盧斡實不與謀，免。 In Baoda year 1 Southern Army commander-in-chief Yelu Yudu and Aolugan's mother Literary Consort secretly plotted to put him on the throne; when the plot was exposed Yudu defected to Jin, Literary Consort was executed, and Aolugan, who had not joined the plot, was spared.

History of Liao, Chapter 102Volume 102 Biographies 32: Xiao Fengxian, Li Chuwen, Zhang Lin, Yelu Yudu · 16 passages

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蕭奉先李處溫張琳耶律余睹 Xiao Fengxian, Li Chuwen, Zhang Lin, and Yelu Yudu

初，奉先誣耶律余睹結駙馬蕭昱謀立其甥晉王，事覺，殺昱。 Earlier, Fengxian had framed Yelu Yudu for conspiring with the imperial son-in-law Xiao Yu to install his nephew the Prince of Jin as heir. When the plot was exposed, Yu was executed.

余睹在軍中聞之，懼，奔女直。 Yudu, hearing of this while still with the army, was terrified and fled to the Jurchen.

保大二年，余睹為女直監軍，引兵奄至，上憂甚。 In the second year of Baoda, Yudu served as supervising commander for the Jurchen and led an army that appeared without warning. The emperor was deeply alarmed.

奉先曰：「余睹乃王子班之苗裔，此來實無亡遼心，欲立晉王耳。 Fengxian said, "Yudu is of the Prince Ban line. He has come with no real intent to destroy Liao, but only to install the Prince of Jin.

若以社稷計，不惜一子，誅之，可不戰而退。」 If you reckon by the welfare of the state and do not spare a single son, execute him and Yudu will withdraw without a fight."

耶律余睹，一名余都姑，國族之近者也。 Yelu Yudu, also known as Yudugu, was a close kinsman of the imperial house.

奉先恐秦王不得立，深忌余睹，將潛圖之。 Fengxian, fearing the Prince of Qin would not succeed to the throne, deeply resented Yudu and began to plot against him in secret.