Toghon Temür (;
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: ; ; 25 May 1320 – 23 May 1370), also known by his
temple name
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as the Emperor Huizong of Yuan (; ), bestowed by the
Northern Yuan dynasty
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, and by his
posthumous name
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as the Emperor Shun of Yuan (; ) bestowed by the
Ming dynasty
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, was the last emperor of the
Yuan dynasty
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and later the first emperor of the Northern Yuan dynasty. Apart from
Emperor of China
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, he is also considered the last
Khagan
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of the
Mongol Empire
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. He was a son of
Kusala (Emperor Mingzong).
During the last years of his reign, the Yuan dynasty was overthrown by the
Red Turban Rebellion, which established the Ming dynasty, although the Yuan court under his rule remained in control of northern China and the
Mongolian Plateau. The remnant Yuan regime is known as the
Northern Yuan
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in historiography.
Emperor Huizong was a
Buddhist
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student of the
Karmapa
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Karmapa means " ...
s (heads of the
Karma Kagyu
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school of
Tibetan Buddhism
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) and is considered a previous incarnation of the
Tai Situpas. He also notably invited the
Jonang savant
Dölpopa Shérab Gyeltsen to teach him, but was rebuffed.
Before succession
Toghon Temür was born to Kuśala, known as Khutughtu Khan or Emperor Mingzong, when he was in exile in
Central Asia
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. Toghon Temür's mother was Mailaiti, descendant of
Arslan Khan, the chief of the
Karluks
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, a prominent
nomadic
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Turkic tribal confederacy in
Central Asia
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. According to a folk legend, the former Chinese
Southern Song Emperor Gong of Song, Zhao Xian, having surrendered to Yuan as a toddler, had an affair with Yuan Empress Mailaiti near the end of his life. Zhao Xian allegedly fathered Yuan Toghon Temür with Mailaiti. The Mongols circulated a similar story about Toghon Temür fathering
Yongle Emperor
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of the Ming dynasty.
Following the civil war known as the
War of the Two Capitals that broke out after the death of
Yesün Temür (Emperor Taiding) in 1328, Toghon Temür attended to his father and entered
Shangdu
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from
Mongolia
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. However, after Kuśala died and his younger brother was restored to the throne as
Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür (Emperor Wenzong), he was kept from the court and was banished to
Goryeo
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(modern
Korea
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) and later to
Guangxi
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in
South China
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. While he was in exile, his stepmother
Babusha was executed.
When Emperor Wenzong died in 1332, his widow, Empress Dowager
Budashiri respected his will to make the son of Kuśala succeed to the throne instead of Wenzong's own son, El Tegüs. However, it was not Toghon Temür but his younger half-brother Rinchinbal, who was enthroned as
Rinchinbal Khan (Emperor Ningzong). However, he died only two months into his reign. The de facto ruler,
El Temür, attempted to install El Tegüs as emperor but was stopped by Empress Budashiri. As a result, Toghon Temür was summoned back from Guangxi. El Temür feared that Toghon Temür, who was too mature to be a puppet, would take up arms against him since he was suspected of the assassination of Toghon Temür's father, Emperor Mingzong. The enthronement was postponed for six months until El Temür died in 1333.
In 1333, Toghon Temür first met
Lady Gi, a
Korean concubine
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, with whom he fell deeply in love.
[Kyung Moon Hwang ''A History of Korea'', London: Palgrave, 2010 p. 56.] Lady Gi had been sent to China sometime in the late 1320s as "human tribute" as the kings of Goryeo were required to send a certain number of beautiful teenage girls to Yuan to serve as concubines after the Mongol invasions.
Reign
Early reign
The new emperor appointed his cousin El Tegüs
crown prince
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''Crown prince ...
as he was ward of El Tegüs' mother Empress Dowager Budashiri, but he was controlled by warlords even after El Temür's death. Among them,
Bayan became as powerful as El Temür had been. He served as minister of the Secretariat and crushed a rebellion by El Temür's son Tang Ki-se. During his despotic rule, he made several purges and also suspended the
imperial examination
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system. When Toghon Temür tried to promote Lady Ki to secondary wife, which was contrary to the standard practice of only taking secondary wives from Mongol clans, it created such opposition at court to this unheard of promotion for a Korean woman that he was forced to back down.
In 1339, when Lady Ki gave birth to a son, whom Toghon Temür decided would be his successor, he was finally able to have Lady Ki named his secondary wife in 1340.
As Toghon Temür matured, he came to disfavor Bayan's autocratic rule. In 1340 he allied with Bayan's nephew
Toqto'a, who was in discord with Bayan, and banished Bayan in a coup. He also removed El Tegüs and Empress Budashiri from court. With the help of Toqto'a, he also managed to purge officials that had dominated the administration.
Middle reign
With the dismissal of Bayan, Toqto'a seized the power of the court. His first administration clearly exhibited fresh new spirit. The young leader was quick to distinguish his regime as something wholly different from Bayan's. A new
Chinese era name
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, Zhizheng (), was decreed to show this. Bayan's purges were called off. Many of the great Chinese literati came back to the capital from voluntary retirement or from administrative exile and the imperial examination system was restored.
Toqto'a also gave a few early signs of a new and positive direction in central government. One of his successful projects was to finish the long-stalled official histories of the
Liao,
Jin and
Song
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dynasties, which were eventually completed in 1345.
Toqto'a resigned his office with the approval of Toghon Temür in June 1344, which marked the end of his first administration. The several short-lived administrations that followed from 1344 and 1349 would develop an agenda very different from Toqto'a's. In 1347, the emperor forced Toqto'a into
Gansu
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with assistance from former officers of Kuśala and Yesün Temür.
In 1349, Toghon Temür recalled Toqto'a, which began Toqto'a's second and very different administration.
Late reign

Since the late 1340s, people in the countryside suffered from frequent natural disasters, droughts, floods, and ensuing famines. The lack of effective government policy led to a loss of support from the people. Illicit salt dealers who were disaffected by the government's salt monopoly raised a rebellion in 1348, triggering many revolts around the empire. Among them was the
Red Turban Rebellion, which started in 1351 and grew into a nationwide turmoil.
In 1354, when Toqto'a led a large army to crush the Red Turban rebels, Toghon Temür suddenly dismissed him for fear of betrayal. This resulted in the restoration of Toghon Temür's power but also a rapid weakening of the central government. Thus he had no choice but to rely on the forces of local warlords.
Toghon Temür gradually lost interest in politics and ceased to intervene in political struggles. His son
Biligtü Khan, who became Crown Prince in 1353, attempted to seize power and came into conflict with Toghon Temür's aides, who dominated politics instead of the khan. During this time power was increasingly exercised by Lady Ki.
[Kyung Moon Hwang ''A History of Korea'', London: Palgrave, 2010 p. 57.] Chief Empress Lady Ki and his minister persuaded Biligtü Khan to overthrow the latter. Toghon Temür was unable to conciliate the dispute but executed the minister. In 1364 the Shanxi-based warlord
Bolad Temür occupied
Khanbaliq
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and expelled the Crown Prince from the winter base. In alliance with the Henan-based warlord
Köke Temür, Biligtü Khan defeated Bolad Temür in the next year. This internal struggle resulted in further weakening of the political and military power of the central government. In 1365, Toghon Temür finally promoted his much beloved Lady Ki to First Empress and announced that his son by her would be the first in the line of succession.
During the
Yuan dynasty
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, one of
Confucius
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' descendants, who was one of the Duke Yansheng Kong Huan's
孔浣 sons, named Kong Shao 孔紹, moved from China to
Goryeo
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era Korea and established a branch of the family there called the
Gong clan of Qufu after marrying a Korean woman (Jo Jin-gyeong's 曹晉慶 daughter) during Toghon Temür's rule. (Also see
曲阜孔氏 (朝鲜半岛) and
곡부 공씨)
Relations with other nations
Avignon Papacy
Pope John XXII
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and
Pope Benedict XII successfully extended a network of Catholic churches throughout the Mongol Empire from
Crimea
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to China between 1317 and 1343. The
archbishop
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of Khanbaliq,
John of Montecorvino, died in 1328. With the backing of Toghon Temür, the
Alans
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wrote to Pope Benedict XII in 1336 asking for a new metropolitan. In 1338, the pope sent back the embassy headed by
Giovanni de' Marignolli, who stayed at Beijing three or four years. They brought gifts for Toghon Temür that included fine European horses.
Japan
When the
Korea
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ns captured a
Japan
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ese fishing ship they thought was spying, the
Goryeo
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court sent it to their overlord, the Yuan emperor Toghon Temür, who then sent the fishermen back to Japan. In reply, the
Ashikaga shogunate sent an embassy led by a monk to express its gratitude.
Retreat to the north

After absorbing the
Chen Han
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dynasty, conquering Southern China, and establishing the
Ming dynasty
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, Zhu Yuanzhang – crowned as the
Hongwu Emperor
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– conducted military expeditions to
North China
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and defeated the Yuan army in 1368. When
Köke Temür lost battles against the Ming general
Xu Da and Ming troops approached Hebei, Toghon Temür gave up Khanbaliq and fled to his summer base,
Shangdu
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.
In 1369 when Shangdu also fell under the Ming's occupation, Toghon Temür fled northward to
Yingchang, which was located in present-day
Inner Mongolia
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. He died there in 1370; his son succeeded him as
Biligtü Khan Ayushiridara
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and retreated to
Karakorum
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in the same year. The Yuan remnants ruled northern China and the Mongolian Plateau while they continued to claim the title of
Emperor of China
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, from which point they are referred to as the
Northern Yuan dynasty
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. He was the longest-lived emperor of
Yuan China after Kublai Khan.
At the time of his death, the Northern Yuan maintained its influence, stretching the domination from the
Sea of Japan
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to the
Altai Mountains
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. There were also pro-Yuan, anti-Ming forces in
Yunnan
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and
Guizhou
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. Even though its control over
China proper
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had not been stable yet, the Ming considered that the Yuan lost the
Mandate of Heaven
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when it abandoned Khanbaliq, and that the Yuan was overthrown in 1368. The Ming did not treat Toghon Temür after 1368 and his successor Ayushiridara as legitimate emperors.
The Ming gave Toghon Temür the posthumous name ''Emperor Shun'' (順皇帝), which implied that he followed the Mandate of Heaven ceding his empire to the Ming. But the Northern Yuan dynasty gave him their own posthumous name ''Emperor Xuanren Puxiao'' (宣仁普孝皇帝) and temple name ''Huizong'' (惠宗).
Even after Toghon Temür, there was still Yuan resistance to the Ming in the south. In southwestern China,
Basalawarmi
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, the self-styled "Prince of
Liang", established a Yuan resistance movement in
Yunnan
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and
Guizhou
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that was not put down until 1381.
Legacy

Mongolian chronicles such as the ''
Erdeniin Tobchi'' include a poem known as the ''Lament of Toghon Temür''. It deals with his grieving after the loss of
Khanbaliq
Khanbaliq (; , ''Qaɣan balɣasu'') or Dadu of Yuan (; , ''Dayidu'') was the Historical capitals of China, winter capital of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty in what is now Beijing, the capital of China today. It was located at the center of modern ...
(Beijing).
Family
Consorts and their respective issue(s):
*First Empress Consort:
Empress Danashiri (答纳失里皇后) (1320 – 1335), of the Kipchak tribe (钦察部人), daughter of
El Temür
**''Prince Maha (摩訶王) (12 May 1334 – 23 November 1334), 1st son''
*Second Empress Consort:
Empress Bayan Khutugh (伯颜忽都皇后) (1324 – 1365), of the Hongjila clan (弘吉剌氏) from
Onggirat, daughter of Bolod Temür
**''Prince Zhenjin (真金王), 8th son''
**Prince Xueshan (雪山王), 9th son
*Third Empress Consort:
Empress Gi (奇皇后) (1315 – 1369) of the
Korean Haengju Gi clan (幸州 奇氏)
**
Ayushiridara, ''Emperor Zhaozong'' (愛猷識理達臘 北元昭宗) (23 January 1340 – 28 April/26 May 1378), 2nd son
**Miscarriage at 4 months in 1347
*Fourth Empress Consort:
Empress Munashiri, (木納失里; 1307 – 1372) of the Hongjila clan (弘吉剌氏) from
Onggirat
*Pure Consort, of the
Chinese Long clan (淑妃 龍氏), personal name Ruijiao (瑞嬌)
*Pure Consort, of the Cheng clan (淑妃 程氏) (1333 – 1368), personal name Yining (一寧)
*Consort, of the
Korean Gyoha No clan (妃交河盧氏)
*Pure Consort, of the Ge clan (淑妃 戈氏), personal name Xiaoge (小娥)
*Concubine Li (麗嬪), of the Zhang clan (張氏), personal name Ayuan/Axuan (阿元/阿玄)
*Talented Lady (才人), of the Ning clan (凝氏), personal name Xiang'er (香兒)
*Unknown
**Böyan Temür, Prince of Wu (吳王 伯顔帖木兒), 3rd son
**Dösian Temür, Prince of Shu (蜀王都先帖木兒), 4th son
**
Tögus Temür, ''Prince of Yi'' ''(益王'' 兀思哈勒汗)(7 March 1342 – 18 November 1388), 5th son
**Yantai, Prince of Qi (齊王燕台), 6th son
**Prince of Chu (楚王), 7th son
**Shidü'er, ''Crown Prince'' (失秃儿太子), 10th son
['']Ming Shilu
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'', '' Taizu Shilu'', Vol.59
**Princess of Zheng State (鄭國公主), 1st daughter
***Married Bohon Müsütw, Prince Zhendong of Wucheng (鎭東武成王博供穆特)
**Princess of Chu State (楚國公主), 2nd daughter
***Married Seping Chimän Sitü, Prince of Liao (色坪持滿思特 遼王) of the Hongila clan ( 弘吉剌)
**Princess of Yan State (燕國公主), 3rd daughter
***Married Prince Nan of Zhongcheng (南忠成王), of the Hongjila clan (弘吉剌)
**Princess of Wan State (宛國公主), 4th daughter
***Married Shijīn, Prince Wuxian of Pingbei (平北武獻王 時金), of the Hongjila clan (弘吉剌)
**Princess of Shu State (蜀國公主), 5th daughter
***Married Bätöng Gemän ,Prince of Anping (安平王)
In popular culture
*Portrayed by Lee Suk-koo in the 2005–2006
MBC TV series ''
Shin Don''.
*Portrayed by
Ji Chang-wook in the 2013-2014
MBC TV series ''
Empress Ki''.
See also
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List of Yuan emperors
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...
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List of Mongol rulers
The following is a list of Mongol rulers.
The list of states is chronological but follows the development of different dynasties.
Before Genghis Khan
*Kaidu (11th century), Kaidu (? – 1100)
*Bashinkhor Dogshin (1100 – ?)
*Tumbinai Kha ...
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List of Chinese monarchs
The Chinese sovereign, Chinese monarchs were the rulers of History of China, China during History of China#Ancient China, Ancient and History of China#Imperial China, Imperial periods. The earliest rulers in traditional Chinese historiography a ...
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List of Northern Yuan khans
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Great Khans of the Mongol Empire
Emperors of the Yuan dynasty
Northern Yuan khans
14th-century Chinese monarchs
14th-century Mongol khans
1320 births
1370 deaths
Child monarchs from Asia
Yuan dynasty Buddhists
Chinese Buddhist monarchs
Founding monarchs in Asia
Mongolian Buddhist monarchs