生平

其父死後，被努爾哈赤養瀋陽盛京宮中，作親兒般看待，封為和碩貝勒。崇德八年八月，世祖即位，濟爾哈朗奉命與睿親王多爾袞一同輔政。順治四年二月，因建築府第逾制，擅自使用銅獅、銅龜、銅鶴，被罰銀二千，罷免輔政職務。五年九月，被授予定遠大將軍，率師南下湖廣。七年正月，班師還朝。十一月多爾袞暴斃，濟爾哈朗果斷逮捕多爾袞哥哥阿濟格。九年二月，進封叔和碩鄭親王。

順治十二年在北京病逝，年五十六。葬于西直門外白石橋。乾隆四十三年（1778）正月，下詔配享太廟，複嗣王封號為鄭。謚號獻。

家庭

濟爾哈朗的二哥是阿敏。

妻妾

• 後金時期，貴族奉行一夫多妻多妾制，諸妻皆稱福晉，繼娶福晉非喪妻再娶。

• 嫡福晉，鈕祜祿氏，巴圖魯、公額亦都之女

• 二娶福晉，葉赫那拉氏，德爾赫禮台吉之女，葉赫部貝勒金台石（孝慈高皇后之兄、皇太極舅舅）孫女

• 三娶福晉，鈷爾哈蘇氏，卓禮克圖塔布囊之女

• 四娶福晉，扎魯特博爾濟吉特氏，巴格貝勒之女。

• 五娶福晉，葉赫那拉氏，名蘇泰，林丹汗遺孀，德爾赫禮（德爾格勒）台吉之女。二娶福晉葉赫那拉氏之姐妹。

• 庶福晉，瓜爾佳氏，佐領察喇賴之女。

• 庶福晉，薩爾都氏，雲騎尉達祜之女。

• 庶福晉，瓜爾佳氏，扎塔之女。

• 庶福晉，安氏，貼喇尼之女。

• 庶福晉，雲氏，德克素尼之女。

• 庶福晉，戴佳氏，雲騎尉品級南達海之女。

• 庶福晉，鈕祜祿氏，伯爾格之女。

• 妾赫舍里氏，戴達禮之女

• 妾馬氏，武賴之女

• 妾戴氏，驍騎校松坤之女

• 妾晉氏，山隆之女

• 妾蒙郭蘇氏，邁密山之女

子嗣（10子）

• 長子愨厚世子富爾敦（1633-1651），天聰七年癸酉五月十三日巳時生，母側福晉扎魯特博爾吉吉特氏巴格貝勒之女；順治八年辛卯四月二十日午時卒，年十九歲；嫡福晉博爾吉吉特氏多羅炳圖郡王額參之女，繼福晉納喇氏都統拉那之女，

• 次子和碩簡純親王濟度（1633-1660），母三娶福晉鈷爾哈蘇氏卓禮克圖塔布囊之女

• 三子多羅敏簡郡王勒度（1636-1655），崇德元年丙子九月二十九日亥時生，母側福晉扎魯特博爾吉吉特氏巴格貝勒之女，與第一子同母；順治十二年乙未十二月十九日卯時卒，年二十歲；嫡福晉科爾沁博爾吉吉特氏滿圖台吉之女，無嗣。

• 四子追封和碩簡親王巴爾堪（1637-1680），崇德二年丁丑閏四月二十五日丑時生，母庶福晉瓜爾佳氏札塔之女；康熙十九年庚申十月十一日寅時卒于軍，年四十四歲；嫡福晉薩察氏瓦禮之女，繼福晉瓜爾佳氏輕車都尉塔爾喀齊之女，妾劉氏劉相文之女，妾卓特氏鄂爾濟泰之女，妾張氏張啟封之女；五子：長子追封和碩簡親王巴塞，次子葉成額，三子額爾屯，四子奉國將軍阿爾蘇，五子阿爾台。

• 五子都統輝蘭（1640-1701），崇德五年庚辰五月初八日辰時生，母為庶福晉安氏帖喇尼之女；康熙四十年辛巳十二月初二日子時卒，年六十二歲；嫡妻薩爾圖氏郎中丹岱之女，繼妻納喇氏參領噶都渾之女，妾宗氏宗進位之女，妾婁氏伯車齊之女，妾金氏伯魯之女，妾王氏王洪志之女，妾張氏張增玉之女，妾楊氏楊增盛之女，妾王氏雙鼎之女；十八子：長子輝錫，次子伊哈達，三子緯錫，四子九塞，五子章雅圖，六子奇資，七子瑪喇德，八子陽罇，九子萬德，十子祿景，十一子富朗，十二子佛奇，十三子瑪爾圖，十四子老君保，十五子赫順，十六子前鋒統領哈爾吉，十七子富雄，十八子德永保。

• 六子席圖庫（1642-1651），崇德七年壬申七月二十二日子時生，母為庶福晉瓜爾佳氏察喇禮之女；順治八年辛卯十二月初九日戌時卒，年七歲。

• 七子輔國將軍固美（1645-1693），順治二年乙酉十二月二十三日寅時生，母庶福晉薩爾都氏雲騎尉達鈷之女；康熙三十二年癸酉八月初二日午時卒，年四十九歲；嫡妻佟佳氏侍郎錫圖之女，妾崔氏崔達之女。八子：長子固爾渾，次子察爾奇，三子墨爾森，四子都爾孫，五子呼保珠，六子柴塞，七子雄寶珠，八子索住。

• 八子留錫（1648-1703），順治五年戊子五月十八日巳時生，母庶福晉鈕鈷祿氏伯爾格之女；康熙四十二年癸未九月初五日子時卒，年五十六歲；嫡妻佟佳氏護軍校富達里之女，繼妻瓜爾佳氏佐領威赫德之女，三娶妻納喇氏尚書能圖之女，妾張氏鼐格之女。五子：長子恩齡，次子觀琳珠，三子西林，四子胥保珠，五子已革御史稽魯。

• 九子告退輔國將軍武錫（1653-1707），順治十年癸巳四月二十四日丑時生，母庶福晉雲氏德克素尼之女；康熙四十六年丁亥十二月初三日卯時卒，年五十五歲；嫡妻他塔喇氏前鋒參領尼雅漢之女，妾張氏平瑟之女，妾李氏存珠之女，妾姚氏姚雲清之女，妾李氏李達之女，妾胡氏胡永福之女，妾朱氏朱祥之女。二十三子：長子奉國將軍西克特恩，次子伊藤額，三子奉國將軍西親，四子錫綿，五子錫達，六子錫森，七子五品官錫爾泰，八子錫克新，九子錫詹，十子伊詹，十一子錫理祿，十二子錫珠理，十三子錫泰，十四子錫德宜，十五子錫類，十六子錫蘇，十七子錫奇，十八子錫星，十九子錫海，二十子鄂齊哈，二十一子雙子，二十二子珠祿，二十三子錫惠。

• 十子海倫（1655-1683），順治十二年乙未正月二十七日子時生，庶母赫舍里氏戴達禮之女；康熙二年癸卯五月初二日酉時卒，年十九歲。

女兒

• 長女，嫁恩格德爾額駙和孫岱格格之子額爾克戴青。

注釋

Career before 1643

In 1627, Jirgalang took part in the first Manchu campaign against Korea under the command of his older brother Amin. In 1630, when Amin was stripped of his titles for having failed to fight an army of the Ming dynasty, Huangtaiji gave Jirgalang control of the Bordered Blue Banner, which had been under Amin's command. As one of "four senior beile" (the other three were Daišan, Manggūltai, and Huangtaiji himself), Jirgalang participated in many military campaigns against the Ming and the Chahar Mongols. In 1636 he was granted the title "Prince Zheng of the First Rank", with rights of perpetual inheritance. In 1642, Jirgalang led the siege of Jinzhou, an important Ming city in Liaodong that surrendered to Qing forces in April of that year after more than one year of resistance.

Co-regency (1643-1647) and disgrace (1647-1650)

While Dorgon was staying in Mukden, in November or December 1643 Jirgalang was sent to attack Shanhai Pass, a fortified Ming position that guarded access to the plain around Beijing. In January or February 1644, Jirgalang requested that his name be placed after Dorgon's in all official communications. On February 17, 1644, Jirgalang, who was a capable military leader but looked uninterested in managing state affairs, willingly yielded control of all official matters to Dorgon. He was not present when Qing forces entered Beijing in early June 1644. In 1647 he was removed from his post of regent and replaced by Dorgon's brother Dodo. Despite his removal, Jirgalang continued to serve as a military leader. In March 1648, Dorgon ordered the arrest of Jirgalang on various charges and had Jirgalang degraded from a qinwang (first-rank prince) to a junwang (second-rank prince). Later in the same year, however, Jirgalang was sent to southern China to fight troops loyal to the Southern Ming. In early 1649, Jirgalang, accompanied by Han Chinese soldiers under Han Chinese banner general Prince Kong Youde loyal to the Qing, ordered a six-day massacre of the inhabitants of the city of Xiangtan in present-day Hunan due to fierce resistance by Li Chixin's army who were former Chuang (Li Zicheng's) partisans. Southern Ming loyalist He Tengjiao was also killed at Xiangtan by Kong Youde. He returned to Beijing in 1650 after having the capture of He Tengjiao against the forces of the Yongli Emperor, the last ruler of the Southern Ming regime.

The "Jirgalang faction" (1651-1655)

The group led by Jirgalang that historian Robert Oxnam has called the "Jirgalang faction" was composed of Manchu princes and nobles who had opposed Dorgon and who returned to power after the latter died on December 31, 1650. Concerned that Dorgon's brother Ajige may try to succeed Dorgon, Jirgalang and his group arrested Ajige in early 1651. Jirgalang remained a powerful figure at the Qing imperial court until his death in 1655. The four future regents of the Kangxi Emperor - Oboi, Ebilun, Sonin, and Suksaha - were among his supporters.

Death and posterity

Soon after Jirgalang died of illness on June 11, 1655, his second son Jidu (濟度 Jìdù; 1633–1660) inherited his princely title, but the name of the princehood was changed from "Zheng" (鄭) to "Jian" (簡). The title "Prince Zheng" was re-established in 1778 when the Qianlong Emperor praised Jirgalang for his role in the Qing defeat of Ming and granted Jirgalang a place in the Imperial Ancestral Temple.

Jirgalang's second son Jidu and Jidu's second son Labu (喇布 Lăbù; d. 1681) participated in military campaigns in the second half of the Shunzhi Emperor's reign and the early reign of the Kangxi Emperor, notably against Koxinga and Wu Sangui.

Jirgalang's 13th generation descendants Duanhua (Prince Zheng) and Sushun (Duanhua's younger brother) were politically active during the reign of the Xianfeng Emperor (r. 1851-1861). They were appointed as two of eight regents for the infant Tongzhi Emperor (r. 1862-1874), but were quickly overthrown in 1861 in the Xinyou Coup that brought Empress Dowager Cixi and the young emperor's uncle Prince Gong to power.

Family

Father: Šurhaci

• Paternal Grandfather: Taksi, Emperor Xuan

• Paternal grandmother: Hitara Emeci, Empress Xuan (喜塔拉。额穆齐, 宣皇后)

Mother: Ula Nara Hunai, secondary consort ( 侧福晋 乌拉那拉·虎奈)

• Maternal grandfather:

----Consorts and issue:

• Primary consort, of the Niohuru clan (嫡福晋 钮祜禄氏), daughter of Eidu

• Primary consort, of the Yehe-Nara clan (继福晋 叶赫那拉氏), daughter of prince De'erheli (德尔赫礼台吉), granddaughter of Yehe beile Gintaisi (金台石, pinyin:jintaishi), elder sister of Sutai.

• Secondary consort, of the Gu'erhasu clan (侧福晋 钴尔哈苏氏)，daughter of tabunang Zhuoliketu (卓礼克图塔布囊)

　• Jidu (济度;1633-1660), second son, Prince Jianchun of the First Rank (简纯亲王)

• Secondary consort, of the Jarud Borjigin clan (扎鲁特博尔济吉特氏), daughter of beile Bage (巴格贝勒)

　• Fu'erdun (富尔敦;1633-1651), first son, heir apparent Quehou (悫厚世子)

　• Ledu (勒度;1636-1655), third son,

• Secondary consort, Yehenara Sutai (叶赫那拉·苏泰), daughter of De'erheli (德尔赫礼台吉)

• Mistress , of the Gūwalgiya clan (庶福晋 瓜尔佳氏), daughter of Chalalai (察喇赖)

　• Xitujun (锡图军; 1642-1651), sixth son

• Mistress, of the Sardu clan (庶福晋 萨尔都氏), daughter of Master Commander of Cavalry Dahu (云骑尉达祜)

　• Gumei (固美), Bulwark General (辅国将军), seventh son

• Mistress, of the Gūwalgiya clan(庶福晋 瓜尔佳氏), daughter of Zhata (扎塔)

　• Ba'erkan (巴尔堪), Prince Jianwu of the First Rank (简武亲王), fourth son

• Mistress, of the An clan (庶福晋 安氏), daughter of Tielani (贴喇尼)

　• Kunlan (裈兰), fifth son, served as first rank military official (都统)

• Mistress, of the Yun clan (庶福晋 云氏), daughter of Dekesuoni (德克素尼)

　• Wuxi (武锡;1653-1707), Bulwark General (辅国将军)

• Mistress, of the Daigiya clan (庶福晋 戴佳氏), daughter of Master Commander of Cavalry Nandahai (云骑尉品级南达海)

• Mistress, of the Niohuru clan (庶福晋 钮祜禄氏), daughter of Bai'erge (伯尔格)

　• Liuxi (留锡;1648-1703), eighth son

• Wife, of the Hešeri clan(妾 赫舍里氏), daughter of Daidali (戴达礼)

　• Hailun (海伦, 1655-1683), tenth son

• Wife, of the Ma clan (妾 马氏), daughter of Wulai (武赖)

• Wife, of Dai clan (妾戴氏), daughter of Xiaoqijiao songkun (骁骑校松坤)

• Wife, of the Jin clan (妾晋氏), daughter of Shanlong (山隆)

• Wife, of the Mengguosu clan (妾蒙郭苏氏), daughter of Maimishan (迈密山)

　• First daughter

　　• married E'erkedaiqing (额尔克戴青) of the Borjigin clan