Boroldai
Boroldai (or Burulday, Borolday), also known as Burundai, (Cyrillic: Боролдай) (died 1262) was a notable
and other Mongol raids to Europe until 1263.The clan of Borolday is not clear. He was probably from one of four tribes that
Sanchi'ud (or Salji'ud), Keniges, Uushin, and Je'ured clans
.
Career
Serving under Jochi's successor and son,
Templar Knights
at Mohi on April 11, 1241.
During the succession struggle over the throne of the Mongol Empire in early 1251, 100,000
Möngke
.
In 1255,
crusade
against the Mongols.
After 1259, Boroldai's name does not appear again in Russian annals. A general named Burulday was killed in the battle at the
Terek River on January 13, 1263, during the Berke–Hulagu war. This may have been Boroldai. His name appears in the opera The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
, and in Mongolian fairy tales.
Sources
- Ж.Бор - Монгол хийгээд Евразийн дипломат шаштир боть 2
- Grousset, René (1970). The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-0627-1.
- Rashid-al-Din Hamadani. Jami' al-Tawarikh ("Compendium of Chronicles")
References
- ISBN 1-86064-972-6, p.165
- ^ Michael B. Zdan "The Dependence of Halych-Volyn' Rus' on the Golden Horde", The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 35, No. 85 (Jun., 1957), p. 516
- ^ "Новгородская летопись".