12 Facts About Taydula Khatun

Taydula Khatun was a queen consort of the Mongol Golden Horde as the wife of Oz Beg Khan and possibly Nawruz Beg Khan.

Taydula Khatun was the mother of the khans Tini Beg and Jani Beg, and the grandmother of Berdi Beg.

Taydula Khatun is said to have been her husband's favorite, and he spent most of his nights with her.

Taydula Khatun had her own revenue based, for example, on the taxes paid by Italian merchants and other foreigners.

When Tini Beg was on his way back to court, perhaps fearing for Jani Beg, Taydula Khatun incited the emirs to murder Tini Beg, which they did at Saray-Juk in 1342.

Taydula Khatun is mentioned in a letter of the Venetian Doge Andrea Dandolo to Jani Beg Khan.

In 1357, Taydula Khatun suffered from blindness, and the Metropolitan Aleksej was summoned to cure her with his prayers.

Taydula Khatun hoped to arouse his pity by approaching him with his 8-month-old brother in her arms, but Berdi Beg seized the baby from her hands and killed it by hurling it to the ground.

Taydula Khatun helped reach a compromise in the dispute between the Venetians and the Khan over the Venetians' treatment of subjects of the Khan captured in the seizure of a Genoese galley.

Pleased with her choice, Taydula Khatun proposed that Khidr marry her.

Taydula Khatun next placed on the throne the pretended Kildi Beg, apparently a mistake in this tradition for the Qulpa of the more primary sources, but he was not accepted as a genuine and legitimate ruler.

Taydula Khatun finally settled on a certain Bazarchi, a descendant of Tangqut, son of Jochi, as khan and husband.