House of Ögedei
Tamgha of the House of Ögedei Khan.
Parent family	House of Borjigin
Country	Mongol Empire Chagatai Khanate Yuan Dynasty
Current region	Asia Europe
Place of origin	Mongol Empire
Founded	13 September 1229
Founder	Ögedei Khan
Final ruler	Adai Khan
Titles	Khan Khagan Sultan
Connected families	House of Jochi House of Chagatai House of Tolui
Traditions	Tengrism Sunni Islam
Dissolution	1438

The House of Ögedei, sometimes called the Ögedeids, was an influential Mongol family and a branch of the Borjigin clan from the 12th to 14th centuries. They were descended from Ögedei (c. 1186–1241), a son of Genghis Khan who succeeded his father to become the second khagan of the Mongol Empire. Ögedei continued the expansion of the Mongol Empire.

When, after the Toluid Möngke Khan's death, the Mongol Empire disintegrated into civil war, the members of the House of Ogedei were influential players in the politics of the region. From the lines of Genghis Khan's sons — Ogedei, Jochi, Chagatai, and Tolui, the House of Ögedei tended to ally with the Chagataids (descendants of Chagatai) against the House of Jochi, while seeking control for themselves within the Chagatai Khanate at first. The Ogedeids also allied with the Golden Horde against the Yuan founding emperor Kublai (son of Tolui), who was allied with his brother Hulagu, leader of the Ilkhanate in Persia. The Ogedeids attempted to unite the Mongol Empire under their own rule, and Ogedeid princes continued to march against the Yuan dynasty well into the 14th century, such as during the Kaidu–Kublai war.

A peace occurred shortly in 1304, but the war soon resumed. In 1310, Kaidu's successor Chapar Khan surrendered to the Yuan emperor Khayishan, and the territory controlled by the House of Ögedei was divided up by the Chagataids and the Yuan dynasty, after he and his relatives failed to win the Chagatai Khanate. After that, members from this family often appeared as influential contenders or puppet rulers under powerful amirs and noyans in the Northern Yuan dynasty (rump state of the Yuan dynasty) and Transoxiana in the 14th and 15th centuries. While being Turkified and vanished into Tartars.

Notable members

• Ögedei Khan (1186–1241), son of Genghis Khan, and second Khagan of the Mongol Empire
• Güyük Khan (1206–1248), son of Ögedei, and third Khagan of the Mongol Empire
• Kadan, son of Ögedei, and co-leader of the Mongol force that attacked Poland in the 13th century
• Kaidu (c. 1235 – 1301), grandson of Ögedei, leader of the House of Ögedei, and de facto khan of the Chagatai Khanate
• Khutulun (c. 1260–1306), Kaidu's daughter and warrior princess
• 'Ali-Sultan, the Muslim Khan of the Chagatai Khanate (r.1342/1343)
• Danishmendji (d. 1348), khan of the Chagatai Khanate from 1346 to 1348
• Soyurghatmïsh Khan (d. 1384), khan of the Western Chagatai Khanate
• Sultan Mahmud (Chagatai) (d. 1402), khan of the Western Chagatai Khanate
• Örüg Temür Khan, khan of the Northern Yuan dynasty from 1402 to 1408
• Adai Khan, khan of the Northern Yuan dynasty from 1425 to 1438

Descendants of Ögedei

House of Qaši

Ögedeids coinage of the time of Qaidu. AH 668-701 AD 1269-1302 Otrar mint. Dated AH 685 (AD 1286).

• Qaši (合失/héshī,قاشی/qāshī)
  • Qaidu (海都/hǎidōu,قايدو/qāīdū)
    • Čapar (察八児/chábāér,چاپار/chāpār)
      • Ölǰei temür (完者帖木児/wánzhětiēmùér)
        • Qulatai (忽剌台/ hūlátái)
    • Yangičar (يانگيچار/yāngīchār)
    • Oros (Kaidu family) (斡羅思/wòluosī, اوروس/ūrūs)
    • Sarban (ساربان/sārbān)
    • Qutulun Čaγan (قوتولو ن جغا/qūtūlūn jaghā)

See also

• Division of the Mongol Empire
• Chagatai Khanate
• Northern Yuan dynasty

References

• Saunders, John Joseph (2001). The history of the Mongol conquests. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-1766-7.