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321:"As the pillaging and plundering went on, TemĂŒjin moved among the people that were hurriedly escaping, calling, âBörte, Börte!â And so he came upon her, for Lady Börte was among those fleeing people. She heard the voice of TemĂŒjin and, recognizing it, she got off the cart and came running towards him. Although it was still night, Lady Börte and QoâaqÄin both recognized TemĂŒjin's reins and tether and grabbed them. It was moonlight; he looked at them, recognized Lady Börte, and they fell into each other's arms." -
505:, the ruler of Liao. After Genghis Khan destroyed the Naiman tribe and Tayang Khan was killed, Juerbiesu made several offensive remarks regarding Mongols, describing their clothes as dirty and smelly. Yet, she abruptly rescinded her claims and visited Genghis Khan's tent alone. He questioned her about the remarks, but was immediately attracted to her beauty. After spending the night with him, Juerbiesu promised to serve him well and he took her as one of his empresses. Her status was only inferior to
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until their final dispersal in 1218. Khulan was able to achieve meaningful status as one of TemĂŒjin's wives and managed one of the large wifely camps, in which other wives, concubines, children and animals lived. She gave birth to a son named
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by Tatar nomads. In 1178, about 7 years later, TemĂŒjin traveled downstream along the KelĂŒren River to find Börte. When Börte's father saw that TemĂŒjin had returned to marry Börte, he had the pair "united as man and wife". With the permission of her father, TemĂŒjin took Börte and her mother to live in
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entered Mongol history when her father, the Merkit leader Dayir Usan, surrendered to TemĂŒjin in the winter of 1203â04 and gave her to him. But, at least according to the Secret
History of the Mongols, Khulan and her father were detained by Naya'a, one of TemĂŒjin's officers, who was apparently trying
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Yesugen, TemĂŒjin had his men track down and kidnap Yesui. When she was brought to TemĂŒjin, he found her every bit as pleasing as promised and so he married her. The other wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of the Tatars had been parceled out and given to Mongol
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Genghis Khan's wives. The guards had to pay particular attention to the individual yurt and camp in which Genghis Khan slept, which could change every night as he visited different wives. When Genghis Khan set out on his military conquests, he usually took one wife with him and left the rest of
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claims that
Genghis Khan divorced Ibaqa due to a nightmare in which God commanded him to give her away immediately, and JĂŒrchedei happened to be guarding the tent. Regardless of the rationale, Genghis Khan allowed Ibaqa to keep her title as Khatun even in her remarriage, and asked that she would
539:. After about two years of childless marriage, Genghis Khan abruptly divorced Ibaqa and gave her to the general JĂŒrchedei, a member of the Uru'ut clan and who had killed Jakha Gambhu after the latter turned against Genghis Khan. The exact reason for this remarriage is unknown: According to
473:. The Persian historian Ata-Malik Juvayni records that Möge Khatun "was given to Chinggis Khan by a chief of the Bakrin tribe, and he loved her very much." Ăgedei favored her as well and she accompanied him on his hunting expeditions. She is not recorded as having any children.
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and took her in as a wife. She was the daughter of a Tatar leader named Yeke Cheren that TemĂŒjin's army had killed during battle. After the military campaign against the Tatars was over, Yesugen, one of the survivors, went to TemĂŒjin, who slept with her. According to the
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Börte. She was given to one of their warriors as a spoil of war. TemĂŒjin was deeply distressed by the abduction of his wife and remarked that his "bed was made empty" and his "breast was torn apart". TemĂŒjin rescued her several months later with the aid of his allies
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Being loved by him, YisĂŒgen Qatun said, âIf it pleases the Qaâan, he will take care of me, regarding me as a human being and a person worth keeping. But my elder sister, who is called YisĂŒi, is superior to me: she is indeed fit for a
348:(1191â1232). TemĂŒjin had many other children with other wives, but they were excluded from the succession, and only Börte's sons could be considered to be his heirs. Börte was also the mother to several daughters, Kua Ujin Bekhi,
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feelings towards Khulan to help her and her father. While TemĂŒjin was interrogating Naya'a, Khulan spoke up in his defense and invited TemĂŒjin to have sex with her and inspect her virginity personally, which pleased him.
291:, TemĂŒjin's father, when she was 10 and he was 9 years old. TemĂŒjin stayed with her and her family until he was called back to take care of his mother and younger siblings, due to the poisoning of
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soon after she was rescued. This left doubt as to who the father of the child was, because her captor took her as a "wife" and could have possibly impregnated her. Despite this, TemĂŒjin let
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men. The Tatar sisters, Yesugen and Yesui, were two of
Genghis Khan's most influential wives. Genghis Khan took Yesui with him when he set out on his final expedition against the
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to protect them from Mongol soldiers who were nearby. After they arrived three days later than expected, TemĂŒjin suspected that Naya'a was motivated by his
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Yesugen asked TemĂŒjin to treat her well and to not discard her. When TemĂŒjin seemed to agree with this, Yesugen recommended that he also marry her sister
543:, Genghis Khan gave Ibaqa to JĂŒrchedei as a reward for his service in wounding Nilga Senggum in 1203 and, later, in killing Jakha Gambhu. Conversely,
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was an empress of Qara Khitai, Mongol Empire, and Naiman. She was a renowned beauty on the plains. She was originally a favored concubine of
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