Uljay Qutlugh Khatun
Empress consort of the Ilkhanate
Born14 March 1297
Shehraban, Ilkhanate
SpouseBistam
Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan
HouseBorjigin
FatherGhazan
MotherBulughan Khatun
ReligionIslam

Uljay Qutlugh Khatun (Persian: الجای قتلق خاتون; born 14 March 1297) (lit. "Queen Uljay Qutlugh), also Öljei Qutlugh, Oljai Kutlugh or Uljaki, was a Mongol princess, and empress consort of the Ilkhanate as the principal wife of Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan.

Early life

Uljay Qutlugh Khatun was born on 14 March 1297 at Shehraban.[1] She was the only daughter of Ghazan Khan. Her mother was Bulughan Khatun,[2] the daughter of Otman, and granddaughter of Obetay Nuyun of the Qonqirut tribe. Bulughan married Ghazan in October 1295, after both of them converted to Islam. Uljay had a younger full brother named Alju, who died in infancy.[3]

Marriages

Bistam

On 17 September 1303, Ghazan betrothed Uljay to Bistam,[4][5] the eldest son of Ghazan's younger brother Öljaitü Khan. The marriage took place on 12 January 1305,[6] when Uljay was seven.[7] By marrying Ghazan's only surviving child to his eldest son, Öljaitu wished to consolidate his position as well as his successor, as heir to Ghazan's legacy.[8]

Abu Sa'id

After Bistam's premature death, Uljay was betrothed to his younger brother Abu Saʿid,[9] at the time of the prince's departure to Khurasan. The marriage took place before his accession to the throne on 5 July 1317,[4] and Uljay became his chief and most beloved wife.[3]

Shushtar was allocated to the wages (mavajib) of Uljay Qutlugh.[10]

Ancestry

References

  1. ↑ Howorth, Sir Henry Hoyle (1888). History of the Mongols: The Mongols of Persia. B. Franklin. p. 408.
  2. ↑ Abu Bakr al-Qutbi Ahri (1954). History of Shaikh Uwais, and Important Source for the History of Adharbijan in the Fourteenth Century. Mouton. pp. 55, n. 112.
  3. 1 2 Charles, Melville. "BOLOḠĀN KĀTŪN: Boloḡān Ḵātūn "Moʿaẓẓama"". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  4. 1 2 Raby & Fitzherbert 1996, p. 201, n. 111.
  5. ↑ Rashid al-Din Tabib (1999). Compendium of Chronicles. Harvard University. p. 658.
  6. ↑ Raby & Fitzherbert 1996, p. 135.
  7. ↑ Lambton 1988, p. 288.
  8. ↑ Raby & Fitzherbert 1996, p. 135-6.
  9. ↑ Raby & Fitzherbert 1996, p. 136.
  10. ↑ Lambton 1988, p. 294.

Sources

  • Raby, Julian; Fitzherbert, Teresa (1996). The Court of the Il-Khans, 1290-1340. University of Oxford.
  • Lambton, Ann K. S. (January 1, 1988). Continuity and Change in Medieval Persia. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-887-06133-2.
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