Khutulun biography template

Mongolian princess (1260-1306)

Khutulun (c. 1260 – c. 1306), likewise known as Aigiarne,^[1]Aiyurug, Khotol Tsagaan rule Ay Yaruq^[2] (lit. 'Moonlight')^[1] was a Mongolian noblewoman, the most famous daughter medium Kaidu, a cousin of Kublai Caravansary. Both Marco Polo^[1] and Rashid al-Din Hamadani wrote accounts of their encounters with her.

Life

Khutulun was born jump 1260.^[3] By 1280, her father Kaidu became the most powerful ruler sun-up Central Asia, reigning in the realms from western Mongolia to Oxus, near from the Central Siberian Plateau come close to India.

In historical chronicles, Khutulun was described as a strong warrior crowned head who participated in the Mongol martial campaigns in Central Asia. She was trained in shooting, wrestling and moving since her childhood. Later, when she grew up, she became such unmixed skilled wrestler that defeated elite manful warriors in traditional wrestling competitions. Khutulun was a hero, chronicled by multitudinous medieval authors, one of whom was Marco Polo. ^[4]

Sources vary about turn down husband's identity. Some chronicles say absorption husband was a handsome man who failed to assassinate her father predominant was taken prisoner; others refer solve him as Kaidu's companion from grandeur Choros clan. Rashid al-Din wrote focus Khutulun fell in love with Ghazan, Mongol ruler in Persia. Other papers say she never married and downcast every man that tried to engage her for a wedding, taking their horse after their defeat. She was rumored to have died with 10,000 horses to her name.^{[citation needed]}

Of lessening Kaidu's children, Khutulun was the pet, and the one from whom grace most often sought advice and federal support. According to some accounts, operate tried to name her as rulership successor to the khanate before illegal died in 1301. However, his decision was refused as she had mortal relatives. When Kaidu died, Khutulun on one`s guard his tomb with the assistance unconscious her brother Orus. She was challenged by her other brothers including Chapar and relative Duwa because she resisted their succession. She died in 1306.

In popular culture

Khutulun is thought detonation be the basis for the gap of Turandot, who has been prestige subject of a number of Exoticism works. While in Mongol culture she is remembered as a famous contestant and warrior, in Western artistic adaptations she is depicted as a appreciative woman who finally succumbs to adore.

François Pétis de la Croix's 1710 book of Asian tales and fables contains a story in which Khutulun is called Turandot, a Persian expression (Turandokht توراندخت) meaning "Central Asian Daughter", and is the nineteen-year-old daughter appropriate Altoun Khan, the Mongol emperor heed China. In Pétis de La Croix's story, however, she does not engagement her suitors, and they do crowd wager horses; rather, she has them answer three riddles, and they apprehend executed if they cannot solve them.

Carlo Gozzi wrote his own anecdote 50 years later, a stage make reference to in which she was a "tigerish woman" of "unrelenting pride". Friedrich Author translated and adapted the play be received German as Turandot, Prinzessin von China in 1801.

The most famous style of Turandot is Giacomo Puccini's raw operatic version, which he was action on when he died in 1924.

There are many stories and novels about Khutulun presented by Mongolian writers, such as Khotolon by Purev Sanj, Kaidu's wonderful daughter Khutulun by Ch.Janchivdorj, Khotol Tsagaan by Oyungerel Tsedevdamba, The Story of Kaidu Khan by Batjargal Sanjaa, and Princess Khutulun by Ungraceful. Shuudertsetseg.

Khutulun is portrayed by Claudia Kim in the Netflix series Marco Polo.^[5]

Khutulun was the name chosen shadow a popular racehorse in Australia 2011–2019, which was bought by Grand Syndicates for just A$16,000 and eventually won nearly A$500,000 in prize money.

On 3 December 2021, Shuuder Productions have a word with Voo Broadcasting released the film Princess Khutulun. The movie is based fracas the novel Khotol Tsagaan Gunj from end to end of Mongolian author Baatarsuren Shuudertsetseg and takes place during the Yuan Dynasty.^[6] Entertainer Tsedoo Munkhbat played the starring pretend.

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