Jalal ad-Din khan

Jalal ad-Din (Tatar: Cäläletdin, Polish: Dżalal ad-Din) (1380–1412) was the khan of the Golden Horde in 1411–1412. He was the son of Tokhtamysh Khan.^[1] He is also famous for his written history of the Mongol Empire.

After his father Tokhtamysh died in c.1405, Jalal ad-Din fled to Lithuania to seek assistance from the Lithuanian Grand Prince Vytautas the Great. In 1410 he took part in the battle of Grunwald, Tannenberg under Vytautas against the Teutonic Knights.^[2] The allies decisively inflicted a crushing defeat on the Military Order.

In the following year, with Lithuanian support, he overthrew Temur Khan of the Golden Horde, and retook the throne of Saray al-Jadid while his another opponent Edigu was in Khorazm. Sometime after 1411 he minted coins with his name. According to a Russian chronicle, Jalal was murdered by his brother Karim Berdi after his brief reign.

Reference

^ Bosworth, Clifford Edmund, The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual, p. 252. Edinburgh University Press, 2004.
^ Stephen R. Turnbull, Richard Hook-Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights, p.26

Regnal titles
Jalal ad-Din khan House of Qiyat (Хияад) (1206–1635)
Preceded by Temur	Khan of the Jochid Ulus 1411–1412	Succeeded by Karim Berdi

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Name	Khan, Jalal Ad-Din
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Date of birth	1380
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Date of death	1412
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