Batu Khan
Batu Khan Batu or the Magnificent (* 1205, † 1255 ) was a Mongol ruler as part jochis son and grandson of Genghis Khan. As such, the Batu Khan was the Golden Horde.
Family
Batu's brothers were, inter alia, Orda, Berke Khan and Shibani. His principal wife was Borakchin Khatun. His sons were Sartaq Khan, Ulaqchi, Andewan and Toqoqan, the future Khans were descended from the latter.
History
In 1236, the troops of Batu Khan defeated the Volga Bulgars and subjected them. Two years later, in 1238, Batu Khan defeated the Russian Grand Duke Yuri II of Vladimir - Suzdal, the uncle of Alexander Nevsky, the Sit, a tributary of the Mologa, conquered all Russian cities except Novgorod, 1240 and the nominal state center Kiev. At the same time came another army against the Kipchaks of the Khans Batschman († 1238 ) and Kotjan before († 1241 ).
In 1241 the Tatars fell under Batu, his general Subotai, Batu's brother Shibani and others in Central and Eastern Europe a. They conquered Krakow and Sandomir and beat on April 9 at the Battle of Wahlstatt under Baidar ( Peta ) a united German -Polish army of knights led by Duke Henry the Pious of Silesia. The main army under Batu, Subotai and Shibani crossed the Carpathians in the Hungarian plain and struck on 11 April 1241 Hungary under King Bela IV at the Battle of Muhi, about 15 kilometers south of Miskolc. They reached the Adriatic and Wiener Neustadt, before they turned on the death of the Great Khan Ugedai and the subsequent disputes about the succession.
On his return to the steppe Batu founded the Blue Horde in the Volga region.
Batu Khan sat 1252 Alexander Nevsky as a Russian Grand Duke. He was next to the Khan in Mongolia the most influential person in the Mongol Empire, certain so in 1251 the choice Mangu Khan to the throne of the Mongol Empire. The Mongols would like to have made their most successful commanders to Batu Khan, and offered the Khaganwürde, but leaning in favor of his cousin, Mongke from.
Batu died in 1255 and his sons as his successor Sartaq and Ulaqchi were used. But a short time later, their uncle, Berke Khan, the tear power.