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Jani Beg

Jani Beg (Persian: جانی بیگ, Turki/Kypchak: جانی بک‎; died 1357), also known as Janibek Khan, was Khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 until his death in 1357. He succeeded his father Öz Beg Khan.

Not to be confused with Janibek Khan.

Jani Beg
جانی بک‎

1342–1357

Tini Beg

Berdi Beg

1357
Sarai

Berdi Beg and others

Borjigin

Golden Horde

Öz Beg Khan

Taydula Khatun

Islam

Metropolitan Alexis Healing the Tatar Queen Taidula from Blindness while Janibeg Looks on, Yakov Kapkov (1816-54)

Metropolitan Alexis Healing the Tatar Queen Taidula from Blindness while Janibeg Looks on, Yakov Kapkov (1816-54)

Metropolitan Alexis healing Jani Beg's mother from blindness (detail from a 15th- or 16th-century painting by Dionisius)

Metropolitan Alexis healing Jani Beg's mother from blindness (detail from a 15th- or 16th-century painting by Dionisius)

The murder of Jani Beg by Berdi Beg (miniature from a volume of the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible)

The murder of Jani Beg by Berdi Beg (miniature from a volume of the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible)

(r. 1357–1359)

Berdi Beg

(pretended?) (r. 1359–1360)

Qulpa

(pretended?) (r. 1360)

Nawruz Beg

(pretended?) (r. 1361–1362)

Kildi Beg

a daughter, Shakar Beg, married Aq Sufi , the prince of the Sufi dynasty of Khwarezm. Their daughter Khanzada Begum later married into the Timurid dynasty.[12]

Qongirat

Jani Beg had a number of sons, only one of whom, Berdi Beg, reigned after him but who proceeded to eliminate his brothers. Two or three more khans appear to have claimed to be Jani Beg's sons and are sometimes treated as such by modern scholars.[11]

Genghis Khan

Jochi

Popular culture[edit]

The 2012 Russian film The Horde is set during the reign of Jani Beg and is a highly fictionalised narrative of how Aleksii healed Taidula from blindness.

List of khans of the Golden Horde

Buell, Paul D.; Fiaschetti, Francesca (2018). Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire (2nd ed.). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.  978-1-5381-1137-6.

ISBN

Gaev, A. G. "Genealogii͡a i khronologii͡a Dzhuchidov" [Genealogy and chronology of the Jochids]. Drevnosti Povolzhʹi͡a i drugikh regionov. Vypusk IV. Numizmaticheskiĭ sbornik. T. 3 (in Russian). Nizhny Novgorod: IPR Informelektro. pp. 9–55.  5-7801-0222-8.

ISBN

Horrox, Rosemary, ed. (15 October 1994). The Black Death. Manchester University Press.  9780719034985.

ISBN

(2011). The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania: International Diplomacy on the European Periphery (15th-18th Century). A Study of Peace Treaties Followed by Annotated Documents. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004191907. Archived from the original on 30 June 2017. Retrieved 23 January 2016.

Kołodziejczyk, Dariusz

The Mongols

David Morgan

Pochekaev, R. Yu. (2010). T͡Sari ordynskie. Biografii khanov i praviteleĭ Zolotoĭ Ordy. Saint Petersburg: Yevraziya.