Masud Beg

Masud Beg († 1289 ), the son of Mahmud Yalavach , was a powerful governor of the Mongols in Central Asia (Bukhara, Samarkand, etc.).

Life

Masud Beg began as an assistant to his father Mahmud Yalavach, was his successor in office around 1241 and administered the settled population of Central Asia. Under the Töregenes government (ruled 1241-1246) he had to flee to Batu Khan and spent several years there until he was reinstated in his office by the new Great Khan Gujuk and Möngke Khan.

Due to the unresolved question of succession in the Chagatai Khanate (reign of Qara Hulagu's widow Orghina), Masud Beg was able to administer the cities of Central Asia in the 1250s without local opposition. He was constantly traveling from one urban center to another.

In the inner Mongolian power struggles of the 1260s and 70s, he continued his administration under conditions of political chaos. He tried to prevent the Chagatai princes from sacking Bukhara and Samarkand, but had only initial success. In 1273 Bukhara was sacked and burned down by the troops of Ilkhan Abaqa (r. 1265–82), and the troops of the Chagatai took the remains (1273, 1276).

The success of Prince Qaidu (d. 1301) from the House of Ögedei brought Central Asia a new phase of calm. Agriculture, trade and urban life were revived, the issue of silver coins in the 1280s testifies to the success of the reconstruction. Qaidu protected (as senior partner of the Chagatai Khan Duwa) the administration of Masud Beg and his clan. After the death of Masud Begs in 1289, he installed his sons in the office of their father.

Remarks

1. ↑ See Biran: Qaidu, p. 33; Grousset: Empire, p. 335; Nagel: Timur the Conqueror, p.
2. ↑ The fall of the house of Ögedai then ended the administrative activities of Mahmud Yalavach's clan in 1306.

literature

• Igor de Rachewiltz, Hok-lam Chan, Hsiao Ch'i-ch'ing, Peter W. Geier a. a .: In the Service of the Khan - Personalities of the Early Mongol-Yüan Period. Wiesbaden 1993