Boraqchin (wife of Ögedei)

For the wife of Batu Khan, see Boraqchin (Tatar).

Boraqchin was the first and eldest wife of Ögedei Khan.^[1] Some sources state that she was of the Khongirad clan^[2] which seems believable considering that many ancestors and descendants of her husband Ögedei and Genghis Khan did the same.

Boraqchin
First wife of Ögedei Khan
Born	unknown date
Died	Karakorum, Mongol Empire
Burial	Karakorum
Spouse	Ögedei Khan
Religion	Tengrism

They had no surviving children.^[3]

The earliest known Sino-Mongolian inscription, from 1240, mentions a "Yeke Qadun" or "Great empress". Some scholars have identified this figure with Boraqchin, while others argue that the inscription refers to Ögedei Khan's second wife, Töregene Khatun.^[4]

See also

• History of Mongolia
• Ogedei Khan

References

1. Hamadani, Rashid al-Din (1971). The Successors of Genghis Khan. Translated by John Andrew Boyle. Columbia University Press.
2. Howorth, Sir Henry Hoyle (1876). History of the Mongols, from the 9th to the 19th Century. Burt Franklin.
3. Broadbridge, Anne (2018). Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire. Cambridge University Press. p. 167.
4. de Rachewiltz, Igor (1999). "Was Toregene Qatun Ogodei's "Sixth Empress"?" (PDF). East Asian History. 17/18: 71–76.