Kökejin Khatun
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Kökejin Khatun (also called Bairam-Egechi, d. 1300/1) was a Mongolian empress dowager. A powerful political player, she is credited with securing the throne for her son Temür.
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Onggirat
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Yuan dynasty
- Spouse
- Chinkim
- Child
- Temür Khan
- Noble title
- princess
- Image
- YuanEmpressAlbumJiyatu.jpg
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- date of death
- 1300-01-01
- date of birth
- 1250-00-00
- posthumous name
- 裕圣皇后
- described by source
- New History of Yuan
- name in native language
- Хөхжин хатан
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Early life
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- Personal life
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Kökejin Khatun (also called Bairam-Egechi, d. 1300/1) was a Mongolian empress dowager. A powerful political player, she is credited with securing the throne for her son Temür.
== Early life == Kökejin came from the Khunggirad tribe. She was selected as a wife for the crown prince Chingkim by his father, Kublai Khan, who had rejected several candidates before Kökejin was suggested by one of his ministers. According to the fourteenth-century History of Yuan, Kublai had first come across her while he was out on a hunting trip and was impressed by her virtue when she asked him to wait for her parents to return before she could offer him mare's milk to drink.
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