Ruler · 1209 – 1259

Möngke Khan

Lived 1209 – 1259. Khagan of Mongol Empire, 1251 – 1259.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1209 – 1259; 50 years
In office: 8 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Mongol Empire
Left it: killed; the ruler's own article

Khagan

Mongol Empire · the 9th of 20 dated reigns · 1200 – 1370

5 before

Güyük Khan1246 – 1248

Al-Kamil Muhammad1247 – 1260

Oghul Qaimish1248 – 1251

Möngke Khan1251 – 1259

Kublai Khan1260 – 1294

Temür Khan1294 – 1307

Külüg Khan1307 – 1311

8 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roada second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1251 – 1259 · 8 years · came to it aged 42

Left it: killedread from the ruler's own article

Chinese sources record Möngke as having been killed in battle during an assault on the fortress: a contemporary Song poem describes the "victory in Sichuan" where Möngke was killed by a crossbow arrow, which is corroborated in the writing of the Syriac monk Bar Hebraeus.

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