Ashide Wumo Chur

Ashide Wumo Chur was an irkin of the Ashide in the army of Ilig Khan.^[1] The Tang took him prisoner at Jingyang in 626, during Ilig’s march on Chang’an.^[1]

In 626 Ilig led more than a hundred thousand horsemen against Wugong, and the Tang capital was put under martial law.^[1] The Göktürks advanced on Gaoling. The Tang general Yuchi Jingde met them at Jingyang.^[1] He broke their army, took the irkin Ashide Wumo Chur and cut off more than a thousand heads.^[2] The Jiu Tang Shu puts the attack in the seventh month. The Zizhi tongjian dates the battle to the day xinsi of the eighth month.^[3] Two days later Ilig stood at the Wei river. The peace at the Wei bridge followed.^[4]

The Xin Tang Shu names him Wumo Chur, without the clan name.^[5] The histories record nothing of him after his capture.

Name

阿史德烏沒啜ChineseJiu Tangshu 194
烏沒啜ChineseXin Tangshu 215

The first part of his name, Ashide, 阿史德, is the name of his clan. The last character, 啜, is the one the Tang histories use for the rank chur, as in 屈律啜, the first of the great offices in their list.^[1] The histories do not say whether the character belongs to his name or stands for a second rank beside that of irkin.