Jahan Temür was a
Jalayirid puppet for the throne of the
Ilkhanate in the late 1330s.
Life
He was son of Alafrang and the grandson of
Gaykhatu and Jalayirid Dondi Khatun. His family was fallen out favor after
Ghazan
Mahmud Ghazan (5 November 1271 – 11 May 1304) (, Ghazan Khan, sometimes archaically spelled as Casanus by the Westerners) was the seventh ruler of the Mongol Empire's Ilkhanate division in modern-day Iran from 1295 to 1304. He was the son of A ...
's ascension to the throne. His brother-in-law Eljigitei was executed by Ghazan in 1295, father Alafrang was murdered on 30 May 1304 during reign of
Öljaitü. He must have been an elderly person when Jalayirid
Hasan Buzurg raised him to the throne in 1339 near
Hamadan.
His rule were acknowledged from
Basra to
Samsun.
Hasan Buzurg and his Jahan Temür khan met the
Chobanids under
Hasan Kucek
Hasan Kuchak or Ḥasan-i Kūchik (; 1319 – 15 December 1343) was a Chupanid prince during the 14th century. He is credited with setting up a nearly independent Chupanid state in Iran during the struggles taking place in the aftermath of the I ...
in battle on 21 June 1340 near the Jaghatu plains; the Jalayirids were defeated. Following this, Hasan Buzurg returned to
Baghdad and deposed Jahan Temür. While Hasan Buzurg would recognize Togha Temur as his suzerain again for a time, Jahan Temür was his last puppet Ilkhan, and the Jalayirid (Ilkan) dynasty of Baghdad came to rule in its own right. The fate of Jahan Temür himself is not recorded.
References
Il-Khan emperors
14th-century monarchs in Asia
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