Yiwuzhenmohe Qaghan () or Yaghmurchin Bagha Qaghan (Personal name: Qibi Geleng, ) was a tribal chief of
Qibi tribe
Qibi tribe (; Middle Chinese: *''kʲiei-pɪ̯et''; Saka: ''Kāribari'') was a Turkic tribe and a part of Tiele confederation, then Toquz Oghuz and later Uyghur Khaganate. Most famous member of the tribe was Qibi Heli.
Area
According to the epig ...
who ruled briefly over Turkic tribes of
Xueyantuo
The Xueyantuo were an ancient Tiele people, Tiele tribe and khaganate in Northeast Asia who were at one point vassals of the Göktürks, later aligning with the Tang dynasty against the Eastern Turkic Khaganate, Eastern Göktürks.
Names Xue ...
,
Tiele and
Huige
The Uyghur Khaganate (also Uyghur Empire or Uighur Khaganate, self defined as Toquz-Oghuz country; otk, 𐱃𐰆𐰴𐰕:𐰆𐰍𐰕:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣, Toquz Oγuz budun, Tang-era names, with modern Hanyu Pinyin: or ) was a Turkic empire that e ...
.
Reign
At the time of Geleng's rule over the Tiele as ''Erkin'' or ''Elteber'' which was made of 15 tribes, at the time submitted to
Western Tujue
The Western Turkic Khaganate () or Onoq Khaganate ( otk, 𐰆𐰣:𐰸:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣, On oq budun, Ten arrow people) was a Turkic khaganate in Eurasia, formed as a result of the wars in the beginning of the 7th century (593–603 CE) after t ...
's
Heshana Khan
Heshana Qaghan or Heshana Khagan (Chinese: 曷娑那可汗, (Pinyin): hésuōnà kěhàn, ( Wade-Giles): ho-so-na k'o-han, Middle Chinese ( Guangyun) or 曷薩那可汗/曷萨那可汗, hésànà kěhàn, ho-sa-na k'o-han; at one point known as C ...
(r. 603-611). Heshana was said to be collecting excessive taxes from the Tiele, leading to resentment among the Tiele. Heshana thus suspected the Tiele chieftains and, on one occasion, gathered some 100 chieftains and slaughtered them. The Tiele there after rebelled and supported Geleng, the chieftain of the Qibi as khagan. They also supported Yishibo of Xueyantuo as
Yiedie Khan Yiedie Khan (也咥可汗), personal name Yishibo (乙失缽),Regarding the dispute about the surname of Xueyantuo khans, see Xueyantuo. was a seventh-century Turkic political leader of the Xueyantuo, the first to have taken the title of Khan (title ...
, as a subordinate khan under Geleng. He also subjected cities of
Gaochang
Gaochang (; Old Uyghur: ''Qocho''), also called Khocho, Karakhoja, Qara-hoja, Kara-Khoja or Karahoja (قاراغوجا in Uyghur), was a ruined, ancient oasis city on the northern rim of the inhospitable Taklamakan Desert in present-day Xinj ...
,
Yiwu
Yiwu () is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Jinhua in Central Zhejiang Province, East China. As of the 2020 census, the city had 1,859,390 inhabitants and its built-up (or metro) area, joined with that of the neighboring Dongy ...
and
Yanqi.
End of reign
Later, after Western Tujue's
Shekui Khan (r. 611-619) came to power, it was said that the Tiele again submitted to Western Tujue rule and that both Geleng and Yishibo renounced their khan titles as part of the submission.
[{{Cite web, url=http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Altera/syrtardush.html, title=Xueyantuo 薛延陀, Syr Tarduš (www.chinaknowledge.de), last=Theobald, first=Ulrich, website=www.chinaknowledge.de, language=en, access-date=2019-12-30] The Xueyantuo would not have another khan until Yishibo's grandson
Yi'nan, then a vassal of the
Eastern Tujue
The Eastern Turkic Khaganate () was a Turkic khaganate formed as a result of the internecine wars in the beginning of the 7th century (AD 581–603) after the First Turkic Khaganate (founded in the 6th century in the Mongolian Plateau by t ...
, rebelled against Eastern Tujue and was created the
Zhenzhu Khan Zhenzhu may refer to:
*Zhenzhu Khan (died 645), khagan of Xueyantuo
* Zhenzhu Yabgu (died 659), claimant to the throne of Western Turkic Khaganate
* Zhenzhu Subdistrict, Zhen'an District, Dandong, Liaoning, China
*Zhen Zhu, a variety of the ornamen ...
by
Emperor Taizong of Tang
Emperor Taizong of Tang (28January 59810July 649), previously Prince of Qin, personal name Li Shimin, was the second emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, ruling from 626 to 649. He is traditionally regarded as a co-founder of the dynasty ...
. Yiwuzhen's nephew
Qibi Heli
Qibi Heli () (died 677), formally Duke of Liang (凉国公) was a prominent Turkic general in early Tang dynasty and a companion of the Emperor Taizong of Tang. He was accorded the posthumous name Lie (烈).
Early life
Qibi Heli was born to a T ...
would go on to be a Tang general.
References
7th-century Turkic people