Descent of Gengis Khan

The descent of Gengis Khan , resulting from its four sons and its other immediate descendants, finds mainly in Central Asia. As it is about a prestigious descent, certain Asian leaders claimed to be descendants of the Bordjigin, even if the evidence remained mean. At the 14th century the reliable sources (very dependant on Aldine Rashid and other Arab historians ), disappear. With the recent popularity of genealogical tests DNA, a greater number of people start to claim to have blood ties with Gengis Khan.

Dubious origins of Djötchi

The first difficulty which one encounters while trying to find the descendants of Gengis Khan is the origin of Djötchi, the oldest son, who had much more descendants than all the others joined together wire (Ögödei, Djaghataï, and Tolui). The first name of Djötchi can be translated like unforeseen guest . History secret of Mongols tells that the boy was sent to Genghis by Tchilger, which had kidnapped and Viol E his wife preferred, having maintained it in captivity approximately a year. According to this work, the brothers of Djötchi doubted its origins, which Gengis Khan refuted itself.

The historians of today think that the doubts about the paternity of Djötchi are at the origin of its distance by his/her father and owing to the fact that its descendants never went up on the imperial throne. But Gengis always spoke about Djötchi as a its first wire; the bankruptcy of the succession of Djötchi could be explained by the untimely death of this one (which can have drawn aside its offspring of the succession).

Another factor to be taken into account is the fact that the descendants of Gengis Khan often made marriages between blood relations. For example, the descendants of Djötchi took as woman of the members of the dynasty houlagide of Perse, which finds its origins with Houlagou Khan, a grandson of Gengis. Thus it is probable that many the descendants of Djötchi have others wire of Gengis Khan among their ancestors.

Various possible descendants

By the Asian dynasties

Among the dynasties drawing their origins of Gengis Khan one finds the Dynastie Yuan of China, the Houlagides of Persia, the djöchides of the Horde of Gold, the Chaybanides of Siberia and the Astrakhanides of Central Asia. The descent of Gengis Khan was generally crucial in policy tatare. For example, Mamaï had to reign through a series of khans fantoches because it was not blood gengiskanide itself.

Tamerlan, the founder of the dynasty timouride, claimed to be downward of Gengis Khan. Though there is no clear source on its ancestors, it joined the family of Djaghataï by marriage. It never took the title of khan but employed two members of the clan of Djaghataï as official Heads of State. The royal family Moghol E of India goes down from Tamerlan by Bâbur and Genghis Khan by the mother of Bâbur. Later one finds among the leaders tatars origin gengiskanide the khans of Kazan, Qasim (in particular a Tsar, Siméon Bekboulatovitch), and the Dynastie Giray, which reigned on the Khanat of the Crimea until in 1783.

As the Russian Empire annexed states Turkish, their gengiskanides chiefs often entered to the service of Russia. The descendants of Koutchoum, for example, became the Tsarevitch S of Siberia. The descendants of Ablaï took in Russia the name Valikhanov, and the wire of Kalmyk became the princes Dondoukov. All these families revindiquèrent a line gengiskanide. The only surviving family is the house of Giray, whose members left the Soviet Union for the the United States and the the United Kingdom; they are the only ones to have still today nearly certain bonds with Gengis Khan.

By the Russian nobility

After the Mongolian Invasion of Russia the chiefs Riourikides of the Russian principalities and the dynasty Bagratide of Georgia were impatient to obtain political advantages for them and their countries while marrying with gengiskanides. Alexandre Nevski was adopted by Batu and was declared his/her son. The grandson of Alexandre, Iouri III Moskovski, Maria with a sister of Özbeg.

Minor princes of origin gengiskanide also settled them in Russia. For example, the nephew of Berké adopted the first name Pierre and founded the Monastère Saint-Pierre of Rostov, where its descendants will be a long time important Boyard S.

The descent of three marriages between Russians and Mongols can be traced until our days. Most famous is that of Saint Féodor the Black, later patron saint of Yaroslavl, with a girl of the khan Mengü Temür. The relations between Féodor and the khan were idyllic: it spent more time with the Horde (where him great possessions were given) that in its own capital. The male descendants of the marriage of Féodor with the princess tatare include all the posterior chiefs of Yaroslavl and two dozen princely families (of which the Chakhovskoï, the Lvov, the Prozorovskiy, inter alia) which passed the Gène S gengiskanides to other aristocratic families of Russia.

Prince Gleb de Béloozéro, a grandson of Constantin Vladimirski, is another prince rourikide who influenced much the Mongolian court. Gleb Maria with the single girl of the khan Sartaq; from this union was born the house from Belozersk, whose most famous members are the princes Dimitri Oukhtomskiy and the Beloselskiy-Belozerskiy.

More problematic is the union of Narimont, the second wire of Gediminas of Lithuania, with the girl of Tokhta. The oldest source which speaks about this marriage is geneaology jagellonienne , compiled at the 18th century by Johannes Werner from chronicles ruthéniennes . Though the marriage is not impossible (Narimont having spent several years in the Horde), it there no other source which mentions his wife. This assertion is particularly interesting because the princely families Galitzine, Khovanskiy and Kourakine are descendants of Narimont.

By the European nobility

The origins gengiskanides of the tsars or kings de Russie and Georgia cannot be confirmed using the few existing fragmentary documents. The possibility of such a line for the royal families of Western Europe is even less realistic. Nevertheless, of the Western genealogists try to find a bond between Gengis Khan and Elisabeth II of the United Kingdom.

The most current theory is that of the Famille of Basarabi of Valachie, in the south of the Romania. The first sure ancestor of princes Basarabi is a boyard, Thocomerius de Valachie. There are several theories concerning its origins. Certain geneaologists identify Thocomerius with a Bulgarian boyard , Tikhomir (of the Slavic words for calm , peaceful , Ru тихий); another theory claims that its true name is Toq-Timur and that he is the grandson of Batu, the son of Djötchi.

Several descendants of Basarabi settle in Hungary. It was shown, in a convincing way, that the countess Claudine de Rhédey is downward of Basarabi. This would like to say that Mary de Teck and its descendants, from which Elisabeth II, come from the Thocomerius-Tikhomir-Toq-Timur line.

By the Chinese Qing dynasty

During the first years of the Dynasty Qing, the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro had a tradition of diplomatic marriages between them and the Mongols to have their support. Noble Qing thus made Mongolian ladies of the empresses and important Concubine S. As Khortchin were the strongest family, the Manchus were in a hurry to make alliances with the Bordjigin. These marriages are at the origin of two empresses and three empresses dowagers of the Qing dynasty; Xiaozhuang became thus large empress dowager. It is thus not surprising that, of Nurhachi to Shunzhi, all the important empresses and concubines were of Mongolian origin.

Xiao Duan Wen becomes empress in 1636; married to Huang Taiji, it is the girl of prince Manjusri. She is seen like the benevolent empress and most virtuous of all. It is named Maternal empress empress dowager (zh sheng driven huang tai hou) in 1643, the year of died of his/her husband the emperor. She dies in 1649.

The empress dowager Xiaozhuang is traditionally seen like the mother of the Qing dynasty. She is the concubine of Huang Taiji, girl of prince Jaisang and niece of the empress Xiao Duan Wen. It is named Mother empress enlightened dowager (zh sheng driven huang tai hou) in 1643 after the death of the emperor Huang Taiji. She died in 1688, having helped the emperor Shunzhi to deal with the country until her death, and having then helped Kangxi during 25 years of her reign. Excellent politicking, she did not like to intervene in policy, contrary to the famous one of the empress dowager Cixi, but she made it when she jugait it necessary.

Patrilineal evidence DNA of descent

Tatiana Zerjal and other researchers declare in 2003, to have identified a line of Chromosome Y on approximately 8% of the men of most of Asia (either approximately 0,5% of the world total of the men). The study suggests that the genetic form of the variations finds its origin there is: 1000 years in Mongolia. Such a fast expansion could not be made by simple genetic Dérive but by Natural selection. The authors propose that this line is carried by descendants of Gengis Khan and that it was spread by social selection.

According to this DNA, Gengis Khan would make party of the Haplogroupe C3.

Popular culture

In the Guide of the galactic traveller , Mr. Prosser is (without its knowledge), a direct patrilineal descendant of Gengis Khan. This appears by a predilection for small hats in fur, the desire for having Hache S in decoration above its principal door, and occasionally the visions of Mongol hordes.

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