Chagatai Khan

The Christian baptism of Chagatai

Tschagatai Khan , also Tschaghatai or Tschagatai Chan ( Mongolian ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠲᠠᠢ Tsagadaj , Persian جغتای Joghatai ; * around 1186 ; † 1242 ), was the second son of Genghis Khan and is the ancestor of numerous Central Asian princes up to the 16th century. He has beenhanded downas the strict guardian of the Jassa .

Tschagatai had a total of three biological brothers, Dschötschi , Ugedai and Tolui , as well as other half-brothers and adopted brothers.

Chagatai Khan took part in the conquest of Turkestan in 1219/21 and received after the death of his father on the specially convened Kuriltai of 1229 when all conquered areas were divided among the four biological brothers or the three still living brothers and the descendants of Jötschi, who died in 1227 Land on the Ili and Tschüi and founded its own dynasty there , which included the newly created "Tschagatai-Ulus" . He maintained his army camp near the city of Almaliq . After the loss of the western territories, the remaining khanate was called " Moghulistan " (land of the Mongols).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jürgen Paul : Central Asia. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2012 ( Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte , Volume 10), p. 292.