Buluqhan Khatun
| Buluqhan Khatun | |
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Bayaut |
Buluqhan Khatun (Chinese: 卜鲁罕; Mongolian: ᠪᠦᠯᠭᠠᠨ, lit. 'Sable'), also Bulughan, Bulukhan, Bolgana, Bulugan, Zibeline or Bolghara[1] for Marco Polo, was a 13th-century Mongol princess, and the principal wife of the Mongol Ilkhanid ruler Abaqa
Life
Bayaut (also Baya'ud, Chinese: 伯牙吾). She was married to Abaqa Khan as his ninth wife. As a khatun, she was very influential in court. She saved a vizier's life in September 1282 once. She was wed to Arghun in levirate marriage after Abaqa's death in 1282. Her influence even reached to Tekudar's court, who treated her with due respect.[2]
Family
She had Malika Khatun with
Öljeitü, both of whom later succeeded Arghun, and eventually converted to Islam. Arghun had Öljeitü baptized at birth, and gave him the name "Nicholas" after Pope Nicholas IV.[3]
Death and aftermath
She died on 20 April 1286 by the
Persia, via Sri Lanka and India. They arrived in 1293; however, Arghun had been killed before her arrival by conspirators, so Kökötchin married Arghun's son Ghazan, becoming his principal wife.[4]
There were other Buluqhan Khatun who was married to Arghun after her death.
Notes
- ^ peintures, Société française de reproductions de manuscrits à (1926). Bulletin de la Société Française de Reproductions de Manuscrits à Peintures (in French).
- ^ "BOLOḠĀN ḴĀTŪN – Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
- ^ "Arghun had one of his sons baptized, Khordabandah, the future Oljaitu, and in the Pope's honour, went as far as giving him the name Nicholas", Histoire de l'Empire Mongol, Jean-Paul Roux, p.408
- ^ The Travels of Marco Polo
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