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The cover of The Secret History of the Mongol Great Khatuns in Mongolian 2009. Following Ögedei's death, khatuns (queens) briefly ruled the Mongol Empire. Most of these women were not Genghis Khan's daughters, but his daughters- or granddaughters-in-law. Their ability to control the empire made them the most powerful women during this period.
The Yassa (alternatively Yasa, Yasaq, Jazag or Zasag; Mongolian: Их Засаг, romanized: Ikh Zasag) was the oral law code of the Mongols, gradually built up through the reign of Genghis Khan. It was the de facto law of the Mongol Empire, even though the "law" was kept secret and never made public. The Yassa seems to have its origin in ...
François Pétis de la Croix's 1710 book of Asian tales and fables contains a story in which Khutulun is called Turandot, a Persian word (Turandokht توراندخت) meaning "Central Asian Daughter", and is the nineteen-year-old daughter of Altoun Khan, the Mongol emperor of China. In Pétis de La Croix's story, however, she does not wrestle ...
A few Mongol women reigned as regents when her spouse died and the heir was not of age or hadn't been elected, which could take several years. Both men and women could be charged for adultery, which could be punished by execution. [1] In the Mongol Empire, both men and women could be shamans and practice shamanism. Mongol women could also ...
Genepil was born Tseyenpil in 1905 to a family in Northern Mongolia, around the Baldan Bereeven Monastery.. After the death of Dondogdulam Khatun in 1923, Genepil was chosen as her successor among a group of women between the ages of 18 and 20 years old who were selected by the king's counsellors.
Most of what is known of Hö'elün's life is derived from the Secret History of the Mongols, a mid-13th-century epic poem which retold the formation of the Mongol Empire. As this source, through extolling the advice and stability she provided for her children, is very favourable towards Hö'elün, it is probable that its anonymous author had ...
During the Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire she was enslaved and brought via the slave trade in the Mongol Empire to the Mongol capital Kharakorum. [4] [5] At an unknown date she was either given as a slave or otherwise came in contact with Töregene Khatun, who was the daughter-in-law of Genghis Khan through her marriage to Ögedei Khan.
Temülün's name, like her brother's, comes from the stem temü or temür, meaning "iron."The suffix -lun is a common feminine name ending. [4]The Secret History of the Mongols, a chronicle of Mongol history, mentions Temülün three times: in an account of Temüjin's legendary birth [2] and twice in an episode wherein an infant Temülün and her family are attacked by the Taychiud tribe.