Shah Begum was the Queen consort of Moghulistan as the second wife of Yunus Khan, a descendant of Chaghatai Khan, the second son of Genghis Khan.
15 Facts About Shah Begum
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Shah Begum was the mother of Mahmud Khan and Ahmad Alaq, the next Moghul Khans of Moghulistan.
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Shah Begum was the fourth daughter of Shah Sultan Muhammad, king of Badakhshan.
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Shah Begum contended that they had swayed the scepter of Badakhshan from three thousand years.
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Shah Begum had five sisters, one of them was married to Sultan Masud Kabuli, who was a descendant of Amir Timur.
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Shah Begum married Yunis Khan as his second wife in 1461.
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Shah Begum bore Yunis Khan four surviving children: two sons and two daughters.
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Shah Begum was widowed in 1487, and survived her husband more than twenty years.
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Shah Begum left the Mongol region for family reasons, and after wandering for a long time she met her step grandson Babur in Kabul in 1505.
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Shah Begum who was the woman of spirit, and of intrigue, resolved to raise her favourite grandson, Khan Mirza to the throne.
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Shah Begum gained over a body of the Mughals, who had remained behind at Kabul, and who regarded with reverence the widow of their old Khan, and the mother of the two Khans, his sons.
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Shah Begum drew over to her interest Sultan Sanjar Barlas, a chief of considerable influence, and her sister's son.
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Shah Begum was forgiven by Babur, and he treated her generously.
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Shah Begum had always despotically managed the weak mind of her son, the elder Khan.
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Shah Begum had pushed forward to meet with Zobayr of Ragh, a man of no family, and to announce the coming of the begum, when he fell in with a detachment of the army of Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat, which attacked and dispersed his few followers.