Ögedei (窩闊台) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Ögedei as a ruler. This record brings together 38 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Ögedei	窩闊台	Wōkuòtái
Title	Emperor	帝
Posthumous	Emperor Wenying	英文皇帝
Alternate	Ögedei
Personal name	Ögedei
Temple	Taizong	太宗	Tàizōng
Temple name	Taizong	太宗	Tàizōng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0001
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:002:s0183, yuanshi:002:s0191, yuanshi:003:s0006

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十三年辛丑十一月辛卯 · Western Year: AD 1241 · Place: traveling hall / 行殿
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0154

Age

Age: 56 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十三年辛丑 · Western Year: AD 1241
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0155

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三年癸丑…夏六月 · Regnal Year: 3 · Season: summer · Lunar Month: 6 · Western Year: AD 1253
Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0063, yuanshi:003:s0070, yuanshi:003:s0073
Source Date: Text: 二年丁未九月 · Regnal Year: 2 · Sexagenary: 丁未 · Lunar Month: 9 · Western Year: AD 1247
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0178, yuanshi:002:s0183
Source Date: Text: 二年壬子…夏 · Regnal Year: 2 · Season: summer · Western Year: AD 1252
Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0051, yuanshi:003:s0053, yuanshi:003:s0054
Source Date: Text: 壬寅以來 · Sexagenary: 壬寅 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1242 · End: AD 1248
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0191
Source Date: Text: 七年乙未 · Western Year: AD 1235
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0087, yuanshi:002:s0088
Source Date: Text: 三年辛卯 · Western Year: AD 1231
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0016, yuanshi:002:s0022
Source Date: Text: 九年丁酉 · Western Year: AD 1237
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0118, yuanshi:002:s0119
Source Date: Text: 二年庚寅 · Western Year: AD 1230
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0006, yuanshi:002:s0008
Source Date: Text: 五年癸巳 · Western Year: AD 1233
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0047, yuanshi:002:s0051
Source Date: Text: 元年己丑 · Western Year: AD 1229
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0196, yuanshi:002:s0198
Source Date: Text: 八年丙申 · Western Year: AD 1236
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0093, yuanshi:002:s0101
Source Date: Text: 六年甲午 · Western Year: AD 1234
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0062, yuanshi:002:s0066
Source Date: Text: 十一年己亥 · Western Year: AD 1239
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0131, yuanshi:002:s0135
Source Date: Text: 十三年辛丑 · Western Year: AD 1241
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0146, yuanshi:002:s0154
Source Date: Text: 十二年庚子 · Western Year: AD 1240
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0137, yuanshi:002:s0138
Source Date: Text: 十年戊戌 · Western Year: AD 1238
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0125, yuanshi:002:s0128
Source Date: Text: 四年壬辰 · Western Year: AD 1232
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:002:s0027, yuanshi:002:s0034
Source Date: Text: 太宗在潛邸 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1209 · End: AD 1229
Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0006
Source Date: Text: 歲戊申，定宗崩 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1248 · End: AD 1251
Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0020, yuanshi:003:s0022

Family

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Parent of Möngke (蒙哥)
Kinship Term: raised as his son / 養以為子 · Parentage: adoptive · Subject Role: adopted son · Object Role: adoptive father · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗在潛邸 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1209 · End: AD 1229
Kin of Möngke (蒙哥)
Kinship Term: imperial nephew / 皇侄 · Subject Role: nephew · Object Role: uncle · Generation Distance: 1 · Line: paternal
Ancestor of Shiremün (失烈門)
Kinship Term: imperial grandson / 皇孫 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Father of Shiremün · Subject Role: grandfather · Object Role: grandson
Kinship Term: imperial grandson / 皇孫 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
Kinship Term: imperial grandson / 皇孫 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
Parent of Güyük (貴由)
Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Object Birth Order: 1
Kinship Term: eldest son / 長子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Subject Birth Order: 1
Spouse of Töregene (脫列忽乃)
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: marriage
Spouse of Empress Anggwi (昂灰皇后)
Kinship Term: empress / 皇后 · Union Category: marriage
Child of Taizu (太祖)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Subject Birth Order: 3
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Sibling of Tolui (拖雷)
Kinship Term: imperial brother / 皇弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: younger
Parent of Köten (闊端)
Kinship Term: imperial son / 皇子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Parent of Köchü (曲出)
Kinship Term: imperial son / 皇子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Empress Guangxian (光獻皇后)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Spouse of Qurijin Khatun (乞裏吉忽帖尼)
Kinship Term: Ögedei's empress / 太宗皇后 · Union Category: marriage
Parent of Princess Guozhen (果真)
Kinship Term: princess / 公主 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
Parent of Princess Alaqai (阿剌海)
Kinship Term: princess / 公主 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: daughter · Object Role: father
Spouse of Töregene (乃馬真氏)
Kinship Term: Sixth Empress / 六皇后 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: formed
Parent of Father of Shiremün
Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Line: paternal

諸后妃
Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0055

Career and standing

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元年己丑秋八月己未 · Western Year: AD 1229 · Place: Kütemü Alari / 庫鐵烏阿剌里
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0198

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: yuan · Relation: ruled
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0198, yuanshi:002:s0157
Place: Karakorum / 和林 · Relation: built · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七年乙未春 · Western Year: AD 1235
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0087
Place: Qinian Valley / 起輦谷 · Relation: buried-at
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0156

Works and attributed material

Kind: edict · Role: author · Quoted: true · Provenance: Mode: quoted-speech · Speaker Person Id: Ögedei (窩闊台)
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0066, yuanshi:002:s0067, yuanshi:002:s0068, yuanshi:002:s0069, yuanshi:002:s0070, yuanshi:002:s0071, yuanshi:002:s0072, yuanshi:002:s0073, yuanshi:002:s0074, yuanshi:002:s0075, yuanshi:002:s0076, yuanshi:002:s0077, yuanshi:002:s0078, yuanshi:002:s0079, yuanshi:002:s0080, yuanshi:002:s0081, yuanshi:002:s0082
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Ahu Dai (阿虎帶) · Quoted: true · Provenance: Mode: quoted-speech · Speaker Person Id: Ögedei (窩闊台)
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0202

Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: participant · Action: attended Taizu funeral from Khobdo · Other Person Id: Taizu (太祖) · Place: Khobdo / 霍博 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太祖崩 · Western Year: AD 1227
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0005
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: besieged Hezhong · Place: Hezhong / 河中 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年辛卯冬十月乙卯 · Western Year: AD 1231
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0025
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned with Taizu against Jin and Western Regions · Other Person Id: Taizu (太祖) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太祖伐金、定西域 · Western Year: AD 1211
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0004
Kind: legislative · Role: speaker · Action: proclaimed assembly and army regulations at Dalandaba · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年甲午夏五月 · Western Year: AD 1234
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0066
Kind: political · Role: ruler · Action: promulgated Great Yasa · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元年己丑 · Western Year: AD 1229
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0200
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: southern campaign with Tolui and Möngke · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二年庚寅秋 · Western Year: AD 1230
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0012
Kind: personal · Role: principal · Action: while still heir apparent took the boy Möngke as his own son and entrusted his upbringing to Empress Anggwi · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太宗在潛邸 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1209 · End: AD 1229 · Other Person Id: Möngke (蒙哥)
Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0006

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: governance-declined · Statement: From renyin onward standards diverged, court and camp lost unity, and Taizong's governance declined. · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 壬寅以來 · Sexagenary: 壬寅 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1242 · End: AD 1248
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0191
Assessment: magnanimous, loyal and forgiving; age of good order · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0158
Item: the wealth of Taizu and Ögedei / 太祖、太宗之財 · Relation: source of the princes' yearly grants · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Möngke (蒙哥) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年癸丑…夏六月 · Regnal Year: 3 · Season: summer · Lunar Month: 6 · Western Year: AD 1253
Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0073

Source notes

Field: imperial-guard · Statement: Half of Taizong's imperial guard was detached in the ninth month of dingwei year two and placed under Yeke Möngke. · Other Person Id: Yeke Möngke (也曲門答兒) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二年丁未九月 · Regnal Year: 2 · Sexagenary: 丁未 · Lunar Month: 9 · Western Year: AD 1247
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0183
Kind: succession-order · Statement: commanded that his imperial grandson Shiremün be his successor, in the hearing of all the princes and officials · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Source Person Id: Bal (八剌) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 歲戊申，定宗崩 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1248 · End: AD 1251 · Negated: false
Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0022
Kind: succession-order · Statement: Möge answers Bal that no one would dare disobey Ögedei's command, but that Bal's own party broke it in installing Güyük · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Source Person Id: Möge (木哥) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 歲戊申，定宗崩 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1248 · End: AD 1251
Explicit · yuanshi:003:s0024, yuanshi:003:s0025
From: Ögedei / 窩闊台 · To: Taizong / 太宗
Explicit · yuanshi:002:s0157