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Mandukhai Khatun

Type Figure Region Mongolian Plateau Time c. 1449–1510 Also known as Mandukhai Sayin Khatun

Mandukhai Sechen Khatun (c. 1449–1510) was a Northern Yuan female politician and military commander who raised and enthroned young Batumöngke as Daya…

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  1. c. 1467–1479Mongolian Plateau · Mongolian PlateauMandukhai became wife of Manduul Khan around the age of fifteen. Manduul Khan's death interrupted the khanid line, and the Oirat taishi and nobles of various tribes vied to intervene. She refused to remarry a powerful man outside the Chinggisid line, and instead sought out surviving Borjigin orphans to preserve the title of Great Khan.
  2. c. 1479–1490Western Mongolian Plateau · Mongolian PlateauAfter placing the young Batumöngke on the throne, Mandukhai personally led armies against the Oirats, winning several victories and imposing symbolic constraints on their nobles to restore Eastern Mongol reverence for the Borjigin clan. She married Batumöngke once he came of age but retained military command for a long time.
  3. c. 1490–1510Ordos and Kerulen River · Mongolian PlateauFrom the 1490s Mandukhai and Dayan Khan together dealt with Ming border closures and frontier conflicts; at one point she held a re-enthronement ceremony for Dayan Khan at the Eight White Tents in Ordos, and later withdrew north to the Kerulen River. She died around 1510, after which Dayan Khan alone completed the reorganization of the right wing and the enfeoffment of his sons.

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