- his own
bodyguards Kublai Khan
retained the use of the
traditional Mongol Keshig.
Kublai created a new
Imperial guard force, the suwei, of
which half were...
- Alaqa. A key tool
which underpinned these reforms was the
expansion of the
keshig ('bodyguard').
After Temüjin
defeated Toghrul in 1203, he had appropriated...
- Khan, the
Kurultai (Supreme Council), left and
right wings,
imperial army (
Keshig) and the
decimal military system. The
first of
these empires, the Xiongnu...
-
Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, 17:1, 237–76 Atwood,
Christopher P. "Ulus Emirs,
Keshig Elders, Signatures, and
Marriage Partners: The
Evolution of a
classic Mongol...
-
According to Haw, this is a
reasonable claim if Polo was, for example, a
keshig – a
member of the
imperial guard by the same name,
which included as many...
- ****khatu's
retribution was brutal,
sending a
commander of his
personal keshig Tuladai to
pillage Lorestan who
obtained Afrasiab's submission. ****khatu's...
- and ****igned
these mingghan. A 10,000
strong bodyguard unit
known as the
keshig was
formed from the sons of
commanders to
ensure their loyalty to Genghis...
- as Muqali, Jebe, and Subutai. The two also
shared titular command of the
keshig, the
Mongol imperial guard, with
Muqali and Chilaun.
Genghis named these...
- treachery, ****khatu
ordered arrest of
several amirs including his
personal keshig Tuladai, Qoncuqbal, Tukal, Bughdai,
including Kipchak and put into jail...
-
Genghis Khan's
mingghan commander. His
uncle Hulqutu Qurchi was also a
major keshig emir of
Hulagu and Abaqa. He had two or
three brothers who have died before...
