Yesui

Yesui was one of the wives of Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol empire. She was of Bat ancestry.

Like the other wives of Genghis, she had her own Shiver, or court and to her was assigned the Tuul River.[1] Her sister Yesugen was also a wife of Genghis Khan. Neither of them held the power or influence wielded by his first wife Börte.

In 1226, she accompanied her husband as he set out on a punitive expedition to the Tangut kingdom.[2] When he fell ill, Yesui administered the government to hide his condition.[3]

Notes
  1. Weatherford. The Secret History of the Mongol Queens. p. 28.
  2. The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in History: How Genghis Khan's Mongols Almost Conquered the World By Thomas J. Craughwell p.159
  3. Weatherford. The Secret History of the Mongol Queens. p. 82.

Sources
  • Weatherford, Jack. (2010). The Secret History of the Mongol Queens. Broadway Paperbacks, New York.


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