Börte
Börte (“Céruléenne”) is the principal wife of Gengis Khan and the mother of its four sons Djötchi, Djaghataï, Ögödei and Tolui.
Börte Ujin is the girl of Dei Sechen, chief of the tribe of the Khongirats. His/her mother names Tchotan. She has three brothers, Anchen, Huohu and Che. At nine years, she is promised by her father with Temüdjin (the future Gengis Khan), oldest son of the chief Yesügei, and his first Hoëlun wife. The father of Temüjin is poisoned by the Tatars, an enemy tribe, whereas it returned at his place after having promised in marriage his son. Temüdjin being too young, it is another clan which seizes the capacity, and gives up the widows and the children of the late one. Temüdjin and its family live several years of wandering then, reconstituting gradually an inheritance.
About 1181, Temüdjin marries finally Börte. In 1182, it is removed by the Merkit, and remains their captive during eight month. Temüdjin finally succeeds in releasing it with the assistance of Toghrul, Ong Khan of Kerait, and Djamuka, chief of Djadjirat. It is then pregnant eight month, which sows doubts about the paternity of the child that it carries. Temüdjin recognizes nevertheless the son that it puts at the world a little later and who will be Djötchi, his oldest son. Thereafter, Börte will give three others wire and five girls to the conqueror. Its sons were the only heirs official to Temüdjin and it remained all its life the principal wife.
When Temüdjin succeeds, after a series of wars and alliances moving, to be made name in 1206, by the qüriltaï (assembled plenary), Tchingis Qaghan which means in turco-Mongolian: “Sovereign Oceanic”, or rather “universal sovereign”, it receives the title of Large Empress. When her husband was in shift, it assisted her beautiful Temüge brother who controlled Mongolia. She dies before Gengis Khan.
Descent
It is the mother of nine children:
- Chagatai (1184 - 1241)
- Khojen Beki, also called Fujin Beki; according to Aldine Rashid, it was elder children of Gengis Khan and Börte, and would thus have been born in 1181 (or 1185); been engaged in 1202 to Tusakha, wire of Senggum, wire of Toghrul, Ong Khan, of Kerait; married before 1206 Botu, wire of Nekün, Ikire, widower of Temülün, sister of Gengis Khan
- Ögödei (1186 - 1241)
- Alaqai Beki, ° (1188/1191) married 1207 in Alaqush Quri Digit, chief of Ongüt, + 1211; then married 1211 in Jingue, nephew of Alaqush Quri Digit, + (1221); then married about 1225 with Boyaohe, ° 1208; wire of Alaqush Quri Digit; of its second husband, it had a son
- Naküdai, married to Dümügan, girl of Tolui, fourth wire of Gengis Khan and Börte
- Tolui (1190 - 1232)
- Tümelün, ° (1192); married before 1206 Chigu, wire of Anchen, wire of Dei Sechen, chief of Onggirat
- Altalun, ° (1193); married before 1206 with Olar, Olqunu chief' C; then married to Taichu, wire of Olar, chief of Olqunu' C; then married after 1227 (been engaged 1209) with Barshuq Art Tegin, chief of Uighurs; + shortly after 1227
- Checheyigen, ° (1194); married 1207 Törölchi, wire of Quduka beki, chief of Oirat; she had three wire and five girls of them:
- Buqa Timur
- Burtua
- Leave Buqa, married in Eli Timur, girl of Tolui, fourth wire of Gengis Khan and Börte
- Eli Chiqmish Khatun, wife principal of Ariq Böke, wire of Tolui; then married to Nairaqu Buqa, wire of Ariq Böka
- Kubak Khatun, wife of Hülegü, wire of Tolui
- Orqïna Khatun, wife of Qara Hülegü, wire of Muatugan, wire of Djaghatai; then of Alghu, wire of Baidar, wire of Djaghatai
- Oljei Khatun, wife of Hülegü, wire of Tolui; then 1265 of Abaqa, wire of Hülegü
- Küchü Khatun, wife of Toqoqan, wire of Batu, second wire of Djötchi, oldest son of Gengis Khan and Börte
External bonds
- Genealogy
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