Baydu

Baydu
Negotiations between representatives of Ghazan and Baydu. Miniature from the manuscript of Jami' al-tawarikh. 15th century, Herat
Ilkhan
Reign24 March 1295 – 4 October 1295
PredecessorGaykhatu
SuccessorGhazan
VizierJamal ud-Din Dastgerdani
Born1255 or 1256
Mongolia
Died(1295-10-04)4 October 1295
Outside Tabriz[1]
DynastyBorjigin
FatherTaraqai
MotherQaraqcin[2]

Baydu (Mongolian script:ᠪᠠᠶᠢᠳᠤ; Mongolian: Байду) (died 1295) was the sixth ruler of the Mongol empire's Ilkhanate division in Iran. He was the son of Taraqai, who was in turn the fifth son of Hulagu Khan.[3] He succeeded his cousin Gaykhatu as khan of the Ilkhanate in 1295.

  1. ^ William Bayne Fisher, J. A. Boyle, John Andrew Boyle, Ilya Gershevitch, Richard Nelson Frye, Peter Avery, Peter Jackson, Laurence Lockhart, Charles Peter Melville, Gavin Hambly, The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 5 (1968), p. 379.
  2. ^ Rybatzki, Volker (2006). "Genealogischer Stammbaum der Mongolen". Florilegia Altaistica: Studies in Honour of Denis Sinor on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. pp. 135–192 [p. 177]. ISBN 3-447-05396-8.
  3. ^ Stevens, John. The history of Persia. Containing, the lives and memorable actions of its kings from the first erecting of that monarchy to this time; an exact Description of all its Dominions; a curious Account of India, China, Tartary, Kermon, Arabia, Nixabur, and the Islands of Ceylon and Timor; as also of all Cities occasionally mention'd, as Schiras, Samarkand, Bokara, &c. Manners and Customs of those People, Persian Worshippers of Fire; Plants, Beasts, Product, and Trade. With many instructive and pleasant digressions, being remarkable Stories or Passages, occasionally occurring, as Strange Burials; Burning of the Dead; Liquors of several Countries; Hunting; Fishing; Practice of Physick; famous Physicians in the East; Actions of Tamerlan, &c. To which is added, an abridgment of the lives of the kings of Harmuz, or Ormuz. The Persian history written in Arabick, by Mirkond, a famous Eastern Author that of Ormuz, by Torunxa, King of that Island, both of them translated into Spanish, by Antony Teixeira, who liv'd several Years in Persia and India; and now render'd into English.