Khutughtu Khan, Emperor Mingzong of Yuan

Qutugku Khan ( Qoshila, Mingzong; * 1300, † August 30 1329 in the then " Middle Capital" (元 中 都), the church today Mantouying (馒头 营乡) in a circle Zhangbei Zhangjiakou City in Hebei Province ) was a Emperor of the yuan Dynasty. He reigned for only about six months.

The older son Khaischans was ousted by his uncle Ayurparibhadra after his father had this brought forward to the succession. After an unsuccessful coup attempt in 1316, he fled to the Chagatai, under whose protection he settled on Altai.

After the military coup El / Yang Temür in Beijing in 1328 he moved with the help of the Chagatai prior to Karakorum and had himself proclaimed emperor there. His younger brother Toqa Timur, who had prevailed with El Temürs Help meanwhile in China, abdicated in his favor. But El Temür was with this system (which would have brought him to his influence ) is not satisfied, and poisoned the Khan at a meeting in Shan -tu. Toqa Timur now stepped again to the government.

  • Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty
  • Khan
  • Mongol
  • Born in 1300
  • Died in 1329
  • Man
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