Eljigidei
Eljigidei Noyan | |
|---|---|
| ᠡᠯᠵᠢᠭᠲᠡᠢ ᠨᠣᠶᠠᠨ | |
| ViceroyofMongol EmpireinNear East | |
| In office 1247–1251 | |
| Appointed by | Güyük |
| Preceded by | Baiju Noyan |
| Succeeded by | Baiju Noyan |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 1251 |
EljigideiNoyan(Mongolian:ᠡᠯᠵᠢᠭᠲᠡᠢ ᠨᠣᠶᠠᠨ,d. 1251) was aMongolcommander inPersia.
Career
[edit]He was a commander of theKheshigduring reign ofÖgedei.Following the election ofGüyükin 1246, he replacedBaiju,Batu's protégé. He departed from Mongolia in September 1247 and arrived inTalasin April 1248, which coincided with Güyük's death. Upon arrival inKhorasan,he stationed inBadghisregion.[1]Supposedly possessed ofChristiansympathies like the khan, Eljigidei was ordered to advance intoSyria,and planned an advance onBaghdad.This advance was, ideally, to be conducted in alliance withLouis IX of France,in concert with theSeventh Crusade.However, Güyük's sudden death made Eljigidei postpone operations until after theinterregnum.Still, Eljigidei wrote a letter from his camp in Khorasan.[2]
Eljigidei never managed to hold real command but only on paper. After the election ofMöngke,however, Eljigidei and his two sons were implicated in an aborted conspiracy to declare the election invalid.[3]Though supposedly innocent, Eljigidei was arrested and put to death as well in winter of 1251 or 1252.Baijuwas subsequently returned to command in Persia.
References
[edit]- ^"ELJIGIDEI – Encyclopaedia Iranica".iranicaonline.org.Retrieved2020-04-23.
- ^AIGLE, DENISE (2005). "The Letters of Eljigidei, Hülegü, and Abaqa: Mongol Overtures or Christian Ventriloquism?".Inner Asia.7(2): 143–162.doi:10.1163/146481705793646883.ISSN1464-8172.JSTOR23615692.
- ^Dashdondog, Bayarsaikhan (2011), "MONGOL NOYANS IN GREATER ARMENIA (1220–1245)",The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335),Brill, pp. 43–70,JSTOR10.1163/j.ctt1w8h10n.10
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