Gersenji Khongtaiji of the Jalayir

Gersenji (1513-1549) (Mongolian: Гэрсэнз жалайр хунтайж) (also known as Gersenji Jalair Khongtaiji) - alternately Geressandsa (Geressandsa Jelair Khuntaidshi)^[1] - was the 11th and youngest son of Dayan Khan and the second son with Jimsgene khatun. Having appointed over the Jalayir tribe as their ruler, Gersenji was named by his father as chief of the Khalkha Mongol tümen in northern Mongolia, which he ruled from the 1510s until his death in 1549.

Biography

Before his death, Dayan Khan bestowed the six tümens of eastern Mongolia to his eleven sons. His youngest son Gersenji Jalair Khongtaiji received the Khalkha tümen of northern Mongolia, the largest and strongest of the six tümens and the heartland and birthplace of the Mongol empire, while his brothers received tümens in southern Mongolia. In the middle of the sixteenth century, each of Gersenji's seven sons received as his inheritance a specific part of Khalkha Mongolia. They went on to form the houses of Tüsheet Khan, Zasagt Khan and Sechen Khan.

Family

• Father: Dayan khan
• Mother: Jimsgene khatun
• Wife: Khatungghai of Uriankhan
  Möngküi khatun of Uriankhan
• Son:

1. Ashikha darkhan khongtaiji
   (Descents from lords of the house of Zasagt khan aimag)
2. Noyantai khatunbaatar
3. Onokhui üizen noyan
   (Descents from lords of the house of Tüsheet Khan, forming the house of Sain Noyon Khan)
4. Amindural noyan
   (Descents from lords of the house of Setsen Khan aimag)
5. Dari taiji
6. Daldan khundulen noyan
7. Samu Buima noyan

References

1. Howorth, Henry (1876). History of the Mongols from the 9th to the 19th Century. National Central Library of Florence: Longmans, Green. p. 456.