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

PART
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OF THE HISTORY OF MONGKE QA'AN
An account of his lineage;
a detailed account of his wives and the branches
into which his descendants have divided down to the present day;
his portrait;
and a genealogical table of his descendants
Mongke Qa'an was the eldest son of Tolui Khan, being born of his
senior wife Sorqoqtani Beki, the daughter of Jagambo, the brother of
Ong-Khan, the ruler of the Kereit. He had many wives and concubines,
his senior wife being Qutuqtai Khatun,2 the daughter of Uladai, the
son of Buqu Kiiregen, of the Ikires bone,3 who was the son-in-law
of Chingiz-Khan. By this wife he had two sons, the elder Baltu4
and the younger Urung-Tash. Uriing-Tash had two sons, the elder
Sarban and the younger .s Both died young and had no issue.
Sarban had accompanied Nomoghan on the Deresii campaign.6 Acting
in concert with Shiregi, he seized Nomoghan and carried him off
to Mongke-Temiir, who was the ruler of the ulus of Jochi. Shiregi
was taken to Qubilai Qa'an, who sent him to the coast and the hot
region, where he died. By the same wife, Mongke had a daughter called
Bayalun, whom he gave in marriage to Prince Jaqurchin ,7
2 The Cotata Caten of Rubruck.
3 The Persian ustukhwdn, a literal translation of the Mongolyasun, "bone," in the
sense of "tribal sub-division, clan," and often simply "tribe." On the Ikires, a branch
of the Qpnqlrat, see Campagnes, pp. 31—32.
4 From Rubruck's account (Rockhill, p. 189-90), Baltu appears to have been a
Nestorian Christian.
s Blank in all the MSS. According to the Tiian shih, the second son's name was Oljei.
SeeChapitreCVII,pp. 109-10.
6 See below, pp. 267-69.
7 MRYK in Blochet's text. According to the Tiian shih (quoted by Verkhovsky,
p. 127, note 8), his name was Hu-lin, that is, apparently Qurin.
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