Tolui
Tolui assumes the Mongol regency after Genghis Khan’s death
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Original prompt & settings (JSON) ↗For nearly two years after Genghis Khan died, the designated heir was still not Great Khan — his younger brother held the imperial camp in trust.
Who held the camp in 1227
Following Genghis Khan's death and the army's withdrawal from the Western Xia campaign in 1227, Tolui took charge of his father's imperial camp, or ordo.
Genghis Khan's brothers and other sons departed for their own camps to prepare for a future quriltai that would select and install the next supreme khan.
Tolui administered the empire as regent from 1227 until Ögedei's accession in 1229.
The assembly was not that autumn
The succession assembly usually attached to this date did not occur in autumn 1227. The gathering began in 1228–1229 and culminated in Ögedei's enthronement in 1229.
Sources differ over whether the great assembly first gathered in autumn 1228 or only fully assembled in August 1229, but they agree the accession occurred in 1229.
A regent was not automatically the next Great Khan; Tolui's temporary control did not supersede the need for a quriltai.
No khanates were handed out
Appanages belonging to Genghis Khan's sons and their descendants developed over time. They were not four fully formed khanates distributed at a single autumn 1227 meeting.
Jochi had died before his father, and his appanage passed to his descendants: Batu attained primacy in the Jochid ulus, while Orda ruled an eastern appanage.
The Golden Horde and White Horde are later labels for parts of the Jochid polity, not states formally created and named in 1227.
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Date disputed. Sources disagree; the research places it at 1227-08.
What the sources leave uncertain
- The listed event is a composite whose principal action is misdated. No reliable source consulted places Ögedei’s electing quriltai in autumn 1227.
- Sources differ over whether the great assembly first gathered in autumn 1228 or only fully assembled in August 1229, but they agree that Ögedei’s accession occurred in 1229.
- Appanages belonging to Genghis Khan’s sons and their descendants developed over time; they were not four later, fully formed khanates distributed at one autumn 1227 meeting.