索額圖係清開國功臣索尼第三仔，獲封一等侍衛。出生年代推算喺崇德元年（1636）前後，生於盛京（現瀋陽）。康熙七年（1668），授吏部侍郎、授國史院大學士，並為平定三藩積極謀劃，康熙九年任保和殿大學士。
Suo Etu is the third son of Sony, the hero of the Qing Dynasty, and was awarded the title of first-class guard. The year of birth is estimated to be around the first year of Chongde (1636), and he was born in Shengjing (now Shenyang). In the seventh year of Kangxi (1668), he was awarded the rank of the Ministry of Officials, the scholar of the National Academy of History, and actively planned for the pacification of the three feudatories, and Kangxi served as a scholar of the Baohe Temple in the ninth year.