Töregene, Imperial Widow in the Mongol Empire in the 1240s: Opposing Her Husband’s Will on Behalf of Her Son

Anne F. Broadbridge ()
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Anne F. Broadbridge: University of Massachusetts Amherst

A chapter in Historians on Leadership and Strategy, 2020, pp 233-254 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Although Chinggis Khan (aka Genghis Khan) is best known for establishing the Mongol Empire through the infamous Mongol conquests, other figures within that empire deserve attention for what they accomplished at often surprising odds. One of these is Töregene, the widow of Chinggis Khan’s son and heir, who rose from a disadvantageous position as a lesser wife married through brutal conquest to become the paramount empress and regent. Then she publicly thwarted her husband’s dying wish in order to put her own candidate on the throne rather than his.

Keywords: Mongol Empire; Widow(s); Successor (to a throne); Poison; Usurpation; Genghis Khan/Chinggis Khan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26090-3_13

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