Beside Tarqutai Kiriltuq stand his kinsmen, Todo'en Girte and Qudu'udar, who share in the Tayichi'ut's decisions.
Todo'en Girte joined Tarqutai in leaving Hoelun on the Onon about 1170.
Who he is
- Name
- Todo'en Girte; Qudu'udar; others
- Title
- Lords of the Tayichi'ut
- Family
- Kin of Tarqutai Kiriltuq.
- Confidence
- low
Todo'en Girte is named with Tarqutai in the Secret History's abandonment of Hoelun (Kahn/Cleaves); Qudu'udar is named in the regional brief.
Overlord
Tarqutai Kiriltuq.
What it holds
- Their lineages' herds and followers
How it was acquired
By descent.
How things stand that morning
On the Onon.
Military
Levies.
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.
- 1200Dies or flees in the war on the Onon.Depends on: Temujin and Toghrul attacking the Tayichi'ut. Stopped by: No war.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Names are in the narratives; their roles in 1200 are inferred.
Primary sources for The Tayichi'ut
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.
- Record of the Personal Campaigns of the Holy Warrior (Chinggis Khan) (presented to Khubilai in 1288, finished in Mongolian in 1290; the surviving Chinese version dates from 1369). A year-by-year Chinese account of Temujin's wars, drawn from the lost Altan Debter (the same source behind the Yuan shi's first chapter and Rashid al-Din). Read online
- The Secret History of the Mongols (1228 or 1240 (the colophon's Year of the Rat is disputed), with later additions; the surviving Chinese transcription and gloss were made under the Ming in the 1380s). The only Mongol account of Temujin's rise, written within living memory. Read online
- Compendium of Chronicles, Rashid al-Din Fadl Allah Hamadani (1300 to 1311, at Tabriz). The official Ilkhanid history, compiled from Mongol oral tradition and the lost Altan Debter. Read online
- Compendium of Chronicles: the Turkic and Mongol tribes and the life of Chinggis Khan, Rashid al-Din Hamadani (about 1300 to 1311, in the Ilkhanate). The fullest description of who held what on the steppe around 1200, written a century later from Mongol court records (the Altan Debter) and from informants such as Bolad Chingsang. Read online
- History of the Yuan, Song Lian (宋濂) and the Ming history office (1369 to 1370). Juan 1, the annals of Taizu (Chinggis Khan), gives a dated outline of Temujin's early wars drawn from the same lost Altan Debter as the Shengwu qinzheng lu: the Tatar war with the Jin in 1196, the Merkit and Naiman campaigns, the Tayichi'ut war, Jamuqa's coalition of 1201 and the Tatar and Kereyit wars of 1202 and 1203. Read online
Sources and studies
- The Secret History of the Mongols, adapted by Paul Kahn from the Cleaves translation (names and place names of the early chapters)
- The Secret History of the Mongols, transl. and commentary Igor de Rachewiltz (Brill 2004; shorter edition ed. J. C. Street, Western Washington University 2015)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.