Biography

Background

He was a member of the Guwalgiya clan, and the Bordered Yellow Banner, was the second son of a Suwan (蘇完) chieftain named Solgo (索爾果) who in 1588 led five hundred of his tribesmen to join Nurhaci.

Military Service

Fiongdon proved himself to be a strong and an excellent fighter, he was given the eldest granddaughter of Nurhaci to wife and was appointed to a position of importance. He repaid this trust by uncovering a plot against Nurhaci and by executing the ringleader of the plot who was his own brother-in-law. In return for this he received the title jargūci (扎爾固齊, Mongol: 'judge', 'lawgiver') which gave him a right to preside over hearings and to settle disputes. After commanding two expeditions against the Warka tribes Fiongdon went in 1599 to help the Hada who had recently submitted to Nurhaci in their struggle against the Yehe. In 1607, while covering the march of a group of Warka tribesmen who had tendered their submission, he was drawn into battle with the Ula beile, Bujantai, whom he defeated. In 1615 he became one of the Five Councilors of Nurhaci. Nurhaci declared himself Khan of the Jin Dynasty early in 1616 and made Fiongdon commander of the left wing army.

Fiongdon led the attack on Fushun in 1618 in which the Manchus clashed with the Chinese for the first time. He followed this up by defeating the army of the Chinese general Tu Sung in the following year. A few months before his death he aided in the final defeat of the Yehe tribe and the capture of its beile Gintaisi.

Legacy

生平

世居蘇完部，後隸滿洲鑲黃旗。父索爾果，原是蘇完部落首領。費英東以驍勇善戰著稱，十二歲時就能拉開十餘石的強弓。明萬曆十六年（1588年），隨父率部歸努爾哈赤，授一等大臣，尚努爾哈赤孫女格格，故稱蘇完額駙。以姐夫兌泰巴顏有叛志，誅之。二十六年（1598年），同台吉褚英征瓦爾喀，取安褚拉庫路屯寨二十餘處，招降各部。三十五年（1607年），從貝勒舒爾哈齊往迎瓦爾喀斐悠城新附民，大敗烏拉部阻截之兵。從貝勒巴雅喇討東海窩集部，取赫席赫、鄂摩和蘇魯、佛訥赫托克索路。三十九年（1611年），同阿巴泰取烏爾固辰、穆稜二路。四十一年（1613年），從努爾哈赤滅烏拉部。後金天命元年（1616年），與額亦都、扈爾漢、安費揚古、何和禮，同為理政五大臣。

天命三年，從努爾哈赤攻取明撫順，被譽為「萬人敵」。天命四年，攻取葉赫城。敗明兵于薩爾滸山。從努爾哈赤三十餘年，身先士卒，衝鋒陷陣，屢立戰功，授一等總兵官世職。皇太極曾說：「費英東見人不善，必先自斥責而後劾之；見人之善，必先自獎勸而後舉之。故被劾者無怨言，被舉者無驕色。朕未聞諸臣以善惡直奏斯斷人也！」天命五年三月，卒于任。天聰六年（1632年），追封直義公。

家庭

• 祖父 蘇完瓜爾佳常喀尼墨爾根生二子，尼堪，索爾果

• 父 索爾果十子：阿都巴顏，費英東，琥爾哈齊巴顏，音達戶齊墨爾根，吳爾漢，巴本，朗格，雅爾巴，衛齊，安蓋費揚古。

• 妻 愛新覺羅氏 廣略貝勒褚英長女，母繼夫人葉赫納喇氏。萬曆29年（1601年）6月20日亥時生，萬曆42年12月年，嫁費英東，康熙元年（1662年）3月卒，年62歲。

• 子（十人）

• 第一子，南欽

• 第二子，已革三等總兵官納海

• *孫 三等輕車都尉 顧爾漢

• *孫 三等輕車都尉 顧素

• 第三子，那卡布

• 第四子，散秩大臣托惠

• 第五子，色海

• 第六子，已革二等甲喇章京索海

• 第七子，一等雄勇公圖賴

• 第八子，索吉

• 第九子，蘇完顏

• 第十子，三等昂邦章京察哈尼

• *孫 三等公倭黑（察哈尼長子）（1640-1691）

• **曾孫 黑龍江將軍傅爾丹（倭黑子）（1683-1752）

• ***玄孫 兆德 襲三等信勇公

• ****工部尚書，烏蘇里台將軍福興

• *****二等侍衛安英（仁宗安嬪之父）

• 侄 鰲拜

• 女

• 一嫁 追封多羅和惠貝勒塞桑武（舒爾哈齊第五子）

• 一嫁 追封和碩簡親王費揚武 （舒爾哈齊第八子）

• 一嫁 篤義剛勇貝勒巴雅喇 （太祖之弟）

• 一嫁 多羅愨厚貝勒杜爾祜 （褚英長子杜度長子）