Song, Liao, and Jin · Royal Family Member

Prince of Jin 晉王

Jin Wang

Attested AD 1122

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Prince of Jin was a Royal Family Member.

Life and dates

Death

Granted death · Authority Emperor Tianzuo of Liao (遼天祚帝)
Directly stated · History of Liao 102, passage 26

Attested activity

AD 1122 保大二年
Dated from the passage context · History of Liao 102, passage 26

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Kin of Yelü Yudu (耶律余睹)
nephew 甥 · Through Wife of Yelu Yudu (余睹之妻), Consort Wen (文妃)
Directly stated · History of Liao 102, passages 21, 81
Child of Consort Wen (文妃)
bore 生
Directly stated · History of Liao 102, passage 81

Career and standing

Granted death
Death
Directly stated · History of Liao 102, passage 26

Places and affiliations

Polity Id liao · Relation Associated with
Directly stated · History of Liao 102, passage 21

References in the histories

History of Liao, Chapter 102Volume 102 Biographies 32: Xiao Fengxian, Li Chuwen, Zhang Lin, Yelu Yudu · 6 passages

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.

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.

遂賜晉王死。 The emperor then ordered the Prince of Jin to take his own life.

其妻天祚文妃之妹，文妃生晉王，最賢，國人皆屬望。 His wife was the younger sister of Tianzuo's Literary Consort, who had borne the Prince of Jin, the most worthy of the princes, on whom the people of the realm had pinned their hopes.

適耶律撻葛裏之妻會余睹之妻於軍中，奉先諷人誣余睹結駙馬蕭昱、撻葛裏，謀立晉王，尊天祚為太上皇。 It happened that the wife of Yelu Tage Li met Yudu's wife in camp. Fengxian prompted an informer to accuse Yudu of conspiring with the imperial son-in-law Xiao Yu and Tage Li to install the Prince of Jin and elevate Tianzuo to retired emperor.

奉先沮天祚防微之計，陷晉王非罪之誅，夾山之禍已見於此矣。 Fengxian blocked Tianzuo's plans to crush threats while they were still small, engineered the execution of the innocent Prince of Jin, and the calamity at Jia Mountain was already foreshadowed here.