#toregene

[rookiebe]

toregene is the first of magnai's sisters that recognizes nimna as magnai's little pookie meow meow

[queenaesthetique]

#Queen #Toregene #Khatun #Epic #Style #Epic #Grace

[stainedglassgardens]

In 1241, [Genghis Khan's son and successor] Ogodei died, probably paralyzed from an alcoholic binge. [His widow] Toregene assumed complete power over the Mongol Empire as yeke khatun. In pursuit of her own policies, she dismissed all her late husband's ministers and replaced them with her own. Despite being the mother of five sons, she chose not to move them into high positions of critical importance in her new government. Instead, the highest position went to another foreign woman, who had been a servant in Toregene's household. She was Fatima, a Shiite Muslim Tajik or Persian captive from the Middle Eastern campaign. The Persian chronicler Juvaini, who seemingly disapproved of women involved in politics, wrote that Fatima enjoyed constant access to Toregene's tent, and she "became the sharer of intimate confidences and the depository of hidden secrets." Fatima played a political role while the older "ministers were debarred from executing business, and she was free to issue commands and prohibitions." So enormous was Fatima's reputed power that the Persian chroniclers referred to her as a khatun, a "queen," of the Mongols.

Jack Weatherford, The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire