Yelü Zhangnu (耶律章奴)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelü Zhangnu as an aristocrat, military officer, official, and rebel. This record brings together 28 passages from 6 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yelü Zhangnu	耶律章奴	Yēlǜ Zhāngnú
Courtesy name	Temoyan	特末衍	Tèmòyǎn
Surname	Yelü	耶律
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yēlǜ
Personal name	Yelu Zhangnu	耶律章奴
Personal name	Yelu Zhangnu	耶律章奴	Yēlǜ Zhāngnú
Personal name	Yelü Zhangnu	耶律章奴	Yēlǜ Zhāngnú
Given	Zhangnu	章奴	Zhāngnú
Personal name	Zhangnu	章奴	Zhāngnú
Personal name	Zhangnu	章奴
Given name	Zhangnu	章奴	Zhāngnú

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:027:s0236, liaoshi:098:s0001
Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0022, liaoshi:030:s0027, liaoshi:100:s0051, liaoshi:101:s0028

Roles

Aristocrat
Military Officer
Official
Rebel

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Method: cut at the waist / 腰斬 · Place: market / 市
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0048
Manner: execution · Statement: seized disguised as envoy; executed at mobile court
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0080

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 辛丑 · Sexagenary Day: 辛丑 · Lunar Month: 11 · Western Year: AD 1114
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:027:s0236
Source Date: Text: 乾統元年 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1101
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:100:s0055
Source Date: Text: 乾統六年 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1106
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:100:s0056
Source Date: Text: 大安中 · Reign Id: liao-daan · Western Interval: Start: AD 1085 · End: AD 1094
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:100:s0054
Source Date: Text: AD 1115 · Western Year: AD 1115
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:030:s0027
Source Date: Text: AD 1116 · Western Year: AD 1116
Explicit · liaoshi:098:s0040, liaoshi:098:s0041
Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1115
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:028:s0022, liaoshi:028:s0037, liaoshi:028:s0048
Source Date: Text: 天慶五年 · Western Year: AD 1115
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:100:s0058
Source Date: Text: 天慶四年 · Western Year: AD 1114
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:100:s0057
Source Date: Text: 天慶年間章奴之叛 · Western Year: AD 1116
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:101:s0028, liaoshi:101:s0048

Family

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Spouse of Consort of Yelü Zhangnu (耶律章奴王妃)
Kinship Term: consort / 王妃 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife
Child of Zhala (查剌)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Kinship Role: wives and children of the captured nobles · Quantity: unspecified many
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0047

Origins and identity

Line: Younger Father branch of the imperial clan / 季父房之後
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0051

Career and standing

Label: field army deputy commander / 行軍副都統 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 辛丑 · Sexagenary Day: 辛丑 · Lunar Month: 11 · Western Year: AD 1114
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0236
Label: seal-and-signet langjun / 牌印郎君 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大安中 · Reign Id: liao-daan · Western Interval: Start: AD 1085 · End: AD 1094
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0054
Label: army inspector / 都監 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天慶五年 · Western Year: AD 1115
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0059
Label: deputy commander of the Northeast Route army / 東北路統軍副使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天慶四年 · Western Year: AD 1114
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0057
Label: director of palace seal-and-signet night duty / 牌印宿直事 · Action: concurrent · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾統元年 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1101
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0055
Label: director of the Inner Guests Office / 知內客省事 · Action: demoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾統六年 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1106
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0056
Label: all mobile camp deployment director / 諸行營都部署 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0022
Label: associate Southern Court privy commissioner / 同知南院樞密使事 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0236
Label: deputy imperial camp commander-in-chief / 御營都統副 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0022
Label: right vice censor-in-chief / 右中丞 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾統元年 · Reign Id: liao-qiantong · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1101
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0055
Label: associate commissioner of military affairs on the Xianzhou Route / 同知咸州路兵馬事 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天慶五年 · Western Year: AD 1115
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0058
Office: rebel attacking the capital · Western Year: AD 1116 · Source Date: Text: Tianqing 6
Explicit · liaoshi:098:s0040
Status: rebellion-suppressed · Action: ended
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0029
Status: rebel · Action: entered
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0037
Label: execution with display of remains / 腰斬剖心支解 · Action: suffered
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0048

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: associated
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0028
Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0236, liaoshi:028:s0022, liaoshi:100:s0054

Works and attributed material

Kind: proclamation · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0065, liaoshi:100:s0066, liaoshi:100:s0067, liaoshi:100:s0068, liaoshi:100:s0069, liaoshi:100:s0070, liaoshi:100:s0071, liaoshi:100:s0072

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: deputy-commander · Action: appointed deputy to Yelü Woliduo · Other Person Id: Yelü Woliduo (耶律斡里朵)
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0236
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: attacked-mobile-palace · Place: Guangping Marsh / 廣平澱
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0045
Kind: military · Role: leader · Action: failed to take Upper Capital; fled north
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0077
Kind: plot · Role: leader · Action: plotted with Dili and Yanliu to enthrone Chun; deserted with 300+ · Other Person Id: Yelü Chun (耶律淳) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天慶五年 · Western Year: AD 1115
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0060
Kind: rebellion · Role: leader · Action: raided Upper Capital; declared at Taizu temple; raised tens of thousands
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0064, liaoshi:100:s0065, liaoshi:100:s0074
Kind: rebellion · Action: Rebelled and attacked the capital but withdrew without gain. · Western Year: AD 1116 · Source Date: Text: Tianqing 6
Explicit · liaoshi:098:s0040, liaoshi:098:s0041
Kind: rebellion · Role: rebel-leader · Action: revolted
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0028
Kind: defeat · Role: defeated · Action: routed by Ahechan · Other Person Id: Ahechan (阿鶻產)
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0078
Kind: political · Role: plotter · Action: sought-to-enthrone · Other Person Id: Yelü Chun (耶律淳)
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0037

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: plotted deposition for personal gain; committed high treason · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0098
Kind: character · Statement: quick-witted and skilled in discourse
Explicit · liaoshi:100:s0053

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 27Volume 27 Annals 27: Emperor Tianzuo 1 · 1 passage

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一二：辛丑，以西北路招討使耶律斡里朵為行軍都統，一三：副點檢蕭乙薛、同知南院樞密使事耶律章奴副之。 — [12]: On xinchou day Northwest Route pacification commissioner Yelü Woliduo was made field army commander-in-chief; — [13]: deputy inspector Xiao Yixue and associate Southern Court privy commissioner Yelü Zhangnu were deputies.

History of Liao, Chapter 28Volume 28 Annals 28: Emperor Tianzuo 2 · 6 passages

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蕭奉先充御營都統，諸行營都部署耶律章奴為副，<二>以精兵二萬為先鋒。 Xiao Fengxian served as imperial camp commander-in-chief; all mobile camp deployment director Yelü Zhangnu was deputy; [2] twenty thousand elite troops formed the vanguard.

乙巳，耶律章奴反，奔上京，謀迎立魏國王淳。 On yisi day Yelü Zhangnu rebelled, fled to the Supreme Capital, and plotted to welcome Prince of Wei Chun to the throne.

時章奴先遣王妃親弟蕭諦里以所謀說魏國王。 At that time Zhangnu had first sent the consort's younger brother Xiao Dili to explain the plot to Prince of Wei.

有頃，乙信等寃御劄至，備言章奴等欲廢立事。 Shortly after, Yixin and others' imperial missive arrived, fully stating Zhangnu and others' plot to depose and enthrone.

章奴知魏國王不聽，率麾下掠慶、饒、懷、祖等州，結渤海群盜，眾至數萬，趨廣平澱犯行宮。 Zhangnu, learning Prince of Wei would not listen, led his followers to plunder Qing, Rao, Huai, Zu, and other prefectures, joined Bohai bandits, and when his force reached tens of thousands hastened to Guangping Marsh to attack the mobile palace.

章奴詐為使者，欲奔女直，為邏者所獲，縛送行在，腰斬於市，剖其心以獻祖廟，支解以徇五路。 Zhangnu pretended to be an envoy and wished to flee to the Jurchen; border guards seized him, bound him, and sent him to the imperial camp; he was cut at the waist in the market, his heart cut out and offered at the ancestral temple, and his limbs displayed on the Five Routes.

History of Liao, Chapter 30Volume 30 Annals 30: Emperor Tianzuo 4: Ye Luchun, Ye Luyali, Ye Ludashi and Son: Yilie, Yi Lie and Younger Sister: Pu Suwan, Yi Lieci and Son: Zhilugu · 1 passage

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天慶五年，東征，都監章奴濟鴨子河，與淳子阿撒等三百餘人亡歸，先遣敵里等以廢立之謀報淳，淳斬敵里首以獻，進封秦晉國王，拜都元帥，賜金券，免漢拜禮，不名。 In Tianqing year 5, on the eastern campaign, superintendent Zhangnu crossed the Yazi River; with Chun's son Asa and more than three hundred others he fled back, first sending Dili and others to report to Chun the plan to depose and enthrone; Chun beheaded Dili and presented his head, was advanced Prince of Qin-Jin, appointed commander-in-chief, granted the gold warrant, exempted from Han bowing ritual, and not called by name.

History of Liao, Chapter 98Volume 98 Biographies 28: Xiao Wuna, Yelu Yan, Liu Shen, Yelu Hulu · 2 passages

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六年，耶律章奴叛，來攻京城，兀納發府庫以賚士卒，諭以逆順，完城池，以死拒戰。 In the sixth year Yelu Zhangnu rebelled and marched on the capital; Wuna opened the treasury to pay the troops, appealed to them on loyalty and treason, strengthened the walls, and fought to the death.

章奴無所得而去。 Zhangnu withdrew without gain.

History of Liao, Chapter 100Volume 100 Biographies 30: Yelu Tanggu, Xiao Delidi, Xiao Chouwo, Yelu Zhangnu, Yelu Paizhe · 13 passages

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耶律棠古蕭得裏底蕭酬斡耶律章奴耶律術者 Yelü Tanggu, Xiao Delidi, Xiao Chouwo, Yelü Zhangnu, and Yelü Paizhe

耶律章奴，字特末衍，季父房之後。 Yelü Zhangnu, whose courtesy name was Temoyan, came from the Younger Father branch of the imperial clan.

章奴明敏善談論。 Zhangnu was quick-witted and an able debater.

及天祚親征女直，蕭胡篤為先鋒都統，章奴為都監。 When Tianzuo led a personal campaign against the Jurchen, Xiao Hudu was made vanguard supreme commander and Zhangnu army inspector.