The Successors of Genghis Khan - Robert Bedrosian's Armenian ...

HISTORY OF JOCHI KHAN
Second Son of Quli—Tiimen. He was born of Nendiken Khatun and
had several wives and concubines. The name of one of his senior
wives was Boralun of the 32 people. He had six sons, as enumerated
: Aq-K6pek: he had a son called Boralqi; Dashman; Qurtaqachi;
Qutlugh-Buqa; Qutlugh-Temiir; and El-Temikr. These [latter]
five sons had no children, and the names of Aq-Kopek's mother and
those of Dashman, Qurtaqachi, and Qutlugh-Temiir are not known:
Qutlugh-Buqa was born of Boralun.
Third Son of Quli—Mingqan. He was born of —33 Khatun and
had wives and concubines, but their names have not been ascertained,
he had three sons, in the order enumerated: Khalil, Bashmaq, and
Olqutu. This Mingqan, when his father Quli came to this country,
came also accompanied by all the three above-/nentioned sons.34
Fourth Son of Quli—Ayachi. The names of his wives have not been
ascertained. He had one son, called Qazan, by the daughter of Qutluq-
Buqa, the son of Korgiiz. This Ayachi came here as a child and during
the reign of Abaqa Khan was with Arghun Khan in Khurasan.
Having treated him with kindness and favor, they dismissed him together
with his son as an act of friendship and expediency, sending them
back to their own ulus.
Fifth Son of Quli—Musalman. He was born of Qadaqan Khatun. He
had many wives, one of them called Orda-Tegin of the Naiman people.
He had four sons in the order enumerated: Yaqutu, Khwaja, Yailaq,
and Ilyas, all born of Orda-Tegin.
End of the branch of Quli, the second son of Orda.
Third Son of Orda—Qurumshi35
This Qurumshi has no sons, and his wives are not known.
Fourth Son of Orda—-Qongq'iran
He administered the ulus of Orda after his death. He had no sons.
32 Blank in the MSS.
33 Blank in Blochet; Verkhovsky has Bilan.
34 According to Grigor (pp. 339-41), Mingqan (whom he calls Mighan) was imprisoned
by Hiilegii on an island in Lake Urmiya. He speaks elsewhere (p. 331) of his
succeeding his father as governor of Armenia.
35 Identified by Pelliot (Horde d'Or, p. 9) with the Mongol chieftain Corenza,
encountered by John de Piano Carpini on the Dnieper.
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