Royal kin

Who he is

Title

Queens, brothers, sons and kinsmen of the king

Since

not pinned

Born

not known

Confidence

low

No plate we could read names a wife, brother, son or kinsman of Kertajaya. The Pararaton names others for the year of his fall (1222) and they cannot be placed in 1200.

Overlord

Kertajaya

What it holds

• Nothing is known: no appanage, governorship or estate is named for any relative

How things stand that morning

No relative is known to hold land or office. The succession to Kertajaya is not recorded.

Threats

• An undated succession problem
• A kinsman with a district

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

1. 1222Mahisa Walungan and Gubar Baleman die at Ganter in the Pararaton story.Depends on: The story of 1222 happening as told. Stopped by: Nothing in train in 1200.
2. 1292Jayakatwang, descended from the Kediri line, kills Kertanagara and takes Kediri again.Depends on: Singhasari standing. Stopped by: Any change before.

Where the sources disagree

• The names come from the Pararaton through en.wikipedia (Kertajaya); we give them only to say they are not evidence for 1200.

Evidence: No plate names any relative; the chronicle names are late.

On the map: No land to draw.

Primary sources for Kediri

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• History of Song, chapters 488 and 489: Jiaozhi, Dali, Champa, Zhenla, Pagan, Srivijaya, Java, Brunei, Chola and Tambralinga, Toqto'a (Tuotuo) and the Yuan history office, from the Song court records (1343 to 1345, from Song veritable records and court diaries). The Chinese court's record of its southern neighbours, compiled from Song archives. Read online
• History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
• Old Javanese Charters (the Brandes and Krom corpus), including the Kediri inscriptions of Kamesvara and Srngga, Various (the Kediri kings and their officers), edited by J. L. A. Brandes and N. J. Krom (inscriptions of the 8th to 15th centuries; edited 1913). Kediri (Panjalu) in 1200 is known from a few royal charters on stone and copper, which this corpus first printed: the records of Kamesvara (about 1182 to 1194) and of Srngga, that is Kertajaya (from about 1194 to 1222), among them the Kamulan charter of 1194 and the Palah (Panataran) record of 1197, with the king's titles, his seal, the officials of the court and the villages freed from tax.
• A Description of the Foreign Peoples (Records of Foreign Nations), Zhao Rukuo (Zhao Rugua) (1225 at Quanzhou). The best single text for the island world around 1200, written by the superintendent of maritime trade at Quanzhou from merchants' reports a generation after the date. Read online
• Notes in Answer to Questions about the Lands beyond the Passes, Zhou Qufei (周去非) (1178, after service in Guangxi). A Guangxi official's notes, written twenty years before 1200, on the south-western frontier of the Song and the countries beyond. Read online
• Description of the Foreign Peoples (Chau Ju-kua), Zhao Rukuo (趙汝适) (about 1225, while superintendent of maritime trade at Quanzhou). The Song customs officer's survey of the overseas world, compiled from merchants and from Zhou Qufei, a generation after 1200 but describing trade routes that were the same in 1200. Read online
• The Description of the Country, called the Nagarakretagama, Mpu Prapanca (1365 at the Majapahit court). A Majapahit court poem of 1365 listed here only for its retrospect. Read online