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Showing posts with label Güyük Khan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Güyük Khan. Show all posts
20 October 2025

The End of Batu Khan

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After the death of Güyük Khan,  Batu Khan saw an opportunity to take the overlordship away from the Ögedei clan and bring it to his own lin...
19 October 2025

Invading Europe

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Batu Khan's military successes inspired Ögedei Khan to have him invade Europe. He had already conquered the Crimean Peninsula. Spies we...
18 October 2025

Batu Khan

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History tells stories of Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes and Kublai Khan meeting Marco Polo, but Batu Khan is a name that is less-known b...
16 October 2025

Mother of Four Khans

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The youngest son of Geghis Khan, Tolui, married a Christian woman named Sorghaghtani Beki. They had similarly noble backgrounds. Sorghaghtan...
15 May 2025

The Great Mongol Hope

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Pope Honorius III (fl.1216 - 1227), in a letter dated 20 June 1221, referred to "forces coming from the Far East to rescue the Holy Lan...
04 April 2024

John of Plano Carpini

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Marco Polo is known for traveling to the Far East from Europe and observing things unknown to Europeans, but there were many travelers from ...
12 March 2022

Möngke Khan Ascends

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Möngke Khan (11 January 1209 - 11 August 1259) was the son of Tolui (c.1190 - c.1232), the youngest son of Genghis Khan. Möngke had been suc...
04 September 2014

Mamluks & Mongols

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[ source ] The Mongols were expanding westward. Under Genghis Khan they had taken a huge chunk out of Asia, from what is now the Koreas...
31 July 2014

Dear Khan, Dear Pope

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Ögedei Khan, who never got the letter Relations between the East and West have always been strained, generally because of radically dif...
27 March 2013

Canon Law and Muslims

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Today picks up from the previous post . Although canon law did not apply to non-Christian populations, that attitude changed when Europe ...