Chagatai Khan

Chagatai Khan
Chagatai Khan
	Statue of Chagatai Khan in Mongolia
Khan of the Chagatai Khanate
	1226 – 1242
Predecessor	Genghis Khan
Successor	Qara Hülegü
Born	22 December 1183
Died	1 July 1242 (aged 58); Almaligh
Consort	Yesulun Khatun; Togan Khatun; Sevinch Khatun
Clan	Borjigin
Father	Genghis Khan
Mother	Borte

Chagatai Khan was the second son of Genghis Khan. He was the Khan Chagatai Khanate from 1226 to 1242. The name of the Chagatai language and the Chagatai Turks is derived from his name.

Chagatai Khan Media

Early 15th-century miniature from Marco Polo's section of the Livre des merveilles manuscript. It depicts Chagatai being baptised into Christianity; there is however no evidence he was ever a Christian.^[1]
Map of the Chagatai Khanate in the late 1200s, extending from the cities of Bukhara and Samarkand in Transoxiana to the region of Almaliq in Xinjiang
Depiction of the funeral of Chagatai Khan, from a 15th-century manuscript of the Jami' al-tawarikh