Bodonchar Munkhag or, Bodonchar Khan (

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: Бодончар Мөнх, b. around late-9th Centuries – d. 10th Century CE.) was a renowned

Borjigin A Borjigin is a member of the Mongol sub-clan that started with Bodonchar Munkhag of the Kiyat clan. Yesugei's descendants were thus said to be Kiyat-Borjigin. The senior Borjigids provided ruling princes for Mongolia and Inner Mongolia u ...

Tribal-Chieftain and

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, he was known as founding patriach of Borjigins and ruling as first ruler of his tribe, he was the Patrilineal ancestor of Genghis Khan who was the founder of

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in 1206, as well as the Mongol

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tribe of the

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conqueror Amir Timur who was the founder of

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in 1370. According to the ''

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'', he was the 12th generation nominal (non-biological) descendant of Borte Chino.

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was the 11th and

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was the 16th generation biological descendant of Bodonchar Munkhag. (sometimes written Butanchar the Simple). Bodonchar Munkhag is the founder of the House of Borjigin. Chagatai tradition dates 'Buzanjar Munqaq' to the rebellion of Abu Muslim or 747 CE. The name Borjigin does not come from Bodonchar but from Bodonchar's nominal great-grandfather Borjigidai the Wise (''Borjigidai Mergen''). The date 747 CE corresponds better with Borjigidai Mergen. A confusion with Bayanchur Khan could also account for this date discrepancy. He was given the temple name Shizu () during reign of

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in China. According to Timurid Scribes,

's father Taraqai told him that they were of the Descent of Bodonchar in 15th generational ancestry they tracing with him. The Timurid ruler Ulugh Beg's ''Tārīkh-i arbaʿ ulūs'' ( 'History of Four Nations'), abridged as the ''Shajarat al-atrāk'' ( 'Genealogy of Turks')'','' Timurids were descendants of Turk, son of Yāfith ( Japheth). Turk was commonly referred as "Father of the Turks". Mughul and Tatar were twin brothers and children of Aljeh Khan, and therefore fifth generation descendants of Turk. Ulugh Beg's work on genealogy classified Mongols as Turks, while also praising their warrior spirit. Ulugh Beg included Yāfas (Japheth), Turk, Mughūl, Tātār and Ughūz in the genealogical record of the Genghisids and Timurids. Specially Bodonchar was described about his paternal

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rather than maternal, his father mentioned as Anqawi Khan, then his grandfather Qyal Khan, then great-grandfather Ayi Khan, then his great-great-grandfather Tangez Khan, then his great-great-great-grandfather Manqali Khan, and Manqali was the great-grandson of Oghuz Khan and Oghuz mentioning as the descendent of Mongol Khan and long way Mongol tracing his ancestry to Turk who was the oldest son of Yafith and grandson to the

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Nuh, as Shajras the family trees tracing lineages through first human and first Islamic Prophet

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to Bodonchar as 28th-generations. about Bodonchar mother in Timurid Scribes she was not necessarily mentioned because '' The Secret History of Mongols,'' mentioning her named as Alan Gua the

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women.

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