Category:Barak Khan

Barak Khan 

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Date of death	1427 (statement with Gregorian date earlier than 1584) Sarai
Occupation	monarch
Position held	khan
Family	Chingissid
Father	Koirijak
Child	Janybek Khan
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Barak Khan

• "After the downfall of Toqtamïsh Khan, Temür Qutluq Khan, another Toqay-Timurid prince, and his Manghit amir Edigü gained control over the Jochid Ulus. However, after Edigü's downfall in 1411, both halves of the Jochid Ulus were plunged into another succession struggle among the Jochid princes who included the sons of Toqtamïsh Khan and the descendants of Urus Khan. The contender to the throne who emerged as the winner from this succession struggle in the eastern Qipchaq Steppe was Baraq Khan, a grandson of Urus Khan. In 1420-21, Baraq Khan went to Temür's grandson Ulugh Beg, who was then the governor of Transoxiana, and asked for his help in defeating his rivals. By 1424-25, Baraq Khan seized the throne of Saray by defeating and ousting Ulugh Muhammad, the future founder of the Kazan Khanate, who was then the ruler of the right wing of the Jochid Ulus. However, Baraq Khan was not the sole ruler of the whole Qipchaq Steppe. Ulugh Muhammad was not completely defeated. The Mamluk historian Badr al-Din al-'Aynī writes that, by 1423, Ulugh Muhammad was still the ruler of the Ulus of Jochi. Badr al-Din al-'Aynī also records that Baraq Khan was as one of the three rulers of the Qipchaq Steppe by 1427. Furthermore, in a letter sent to the Ottoman sultan Murad II (r. 1421-44) in 1428, Ulugh Muhammad claimed that he had succeeded in ousting Baraq Khan in the previous year. However, Ulugh Muḥammad also mentioned in the letter that Baraq Khan had taken the throne of the Ulus of Jochi in the previous years, demonstrating that Barāq Khan had gained control of the western Ulus of Jochi after all. Johann Schiltberger, a German captive who was in the Qipchaq Steppe, serving a Jochid contender to the throne, also records that Baraq Khan was one of the three rulers of the Qipchaq Steppe, the other two being Ulug Muhammad and Devlet-Berdi." Qazaqlïq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs: State and Identity in Post-Mongol Central Eurasia, Joo-Yup Lee, BRILL, 2015, p.101

• "Baraq Khan, one of Urus Khan’s grandsons, who with his [Ulugh Beg's] support had been enthroned in the ulus (domain) of the Dasht-i Kïpchak, laid claim to the towns along the Syr Darya, alleging that before Timur’s time these areas had belonged to Jöchi’s descendants. Hence in 1427 Ulugh Beg, having consulted with his father and received his support in the person of his brother Juqı (d. 1444–5), embarked on a campaign to the north. However, at Sïgnak his army was crushed. Pursuing the Timurid army, the conquerors penetrated into Transoxania and ravaged many towns and villages. The defeat at Sïgnak, together with an attempt to close the Samarkand gates to Ulugh Beg and his temporary removal from power, played a decisive part in his subsequent political activity. From that time onwards he never again mounted a campaign in person, although troops belonging to the chiefs of nomadic Uzbeks and amirs of Moghulistan more than once attacked the areas subjected to him. During Ulugh Beg’s last years, the Moghuls were able to attack Andijan and Kanibadam with impunity." The Timurid States in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, by R. G. Mukminova, p.252