Yiwuzhenmohe Qaghan Explained

Birth Name:Qibi Geleng
契苾歌楞
Royal House:Qibi
Bagha Qaghan
莫賀可汗
Reign:606 - before 620
Khagan of the Tiele
Regnal Name:Yìwùzhēn Mòhè Kèhán
易勿真莫賀可汗

Yiwuzhenmohe Qaghan [1] or Yaghmurchin Bagha Qaghan (Personal name: Qibi Geleng,[2]) was a tribal chief of Qibi tribe who ruled briefly over Turkic tribes of Xueyantuo, Tiele and Huihe.

Reign

At the time of Geleng's rule over the Tiele as Erkin or Elteber which was made of 15 tribes, at the time submitted to Western Tujue's Heshana Khan (r. 603-611). Heshana was said to be collecting excessive taxes from the Tiele, leading to resentment among the Tiele. Heshana thus suspected the Tiele chieftains and, on one occasion, gathered some 100 chieftains and slaughtered them. The Tiele there after rebelled and supported Geleng, the chieftain of the Qibi as khagan. They also supported Yishibo of Xueyantuo as Yiedie Khan, as a subordinate khan under Geleng. He also subjected cities of Gaochang, Yiwu and Yanqi.[3]

End of reign

Later, after Western Tujue's Shekui Khan (r. 611-619) came to power, it was said that the Tiele again submitted to Western Tujue rule and that both Geleng and Yishibo renounced their khan titles as part of the submission.[4] The Xueyantuo would not have another khan until Yishibo's grandson Yi'nan, then a vassal of the Eastern Tujue, rebelled against Eastern Tujue and was created the Zhenzhu Khan by Emperor Taizong of Tang. Yiwuzhen's nephew Qibi Heli would go on to be a Tang general.

References

  1. Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 192.
  2. Vaissière. Etienne de la. AWAY FROM THE ÖTÜKEN: A GEOPOLITICAL APPROACH TO THE SEVENTH CENTURY EASTERN TÜRKS. "Away from the Ötüken: A geopolitical approach to the 7th c. Eastern Türks," in J. Bemmann, M. Schmauder (Ed.), the Complexity of Interaction along the Eurasian Steppe zone in the first Millennium AD, (Bonn Contributions to Asian Archaeology, 7), Bonn, 2015, p. 453-461.. en.
  3. Taishan. Yu. April 2014. The Sui Dynasty and the Western Regions. Sino-Platonic Papers. 3. 2157-9687.
  4. Web site: Xueyantuo 薛延陀, Syr Tarduš (www.chinaknowledge.de). Theobald. Ulrich. www.chinaknowledge.de. en. 2019-12-30.