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Gaykhatu (Mongolian script: ᠭᠠᠶᠢᠬᠠᠯᠳᠤ; Mongolian: Гайхалт, romanized: Gaikhalt, lit. 'Surprising') [1] was the fifth Ilkhanate ruler in Iran . He reigned from 1291 to 1295.
Gaykhatu was followed briefly by Baydu (died 1295), who was supplanted by the greatest of the Il-Khans, Maḥmūd Ghāzān (1295–1304). Ghāzān abandoned Buddhism—the faith in which his grandfather Abagha, Hülegü’s successor (1265–82), had reared him—and adopted Islam. One of his chief ministers….
GAYḴĀTŪ KHAN, fifth Mongol Il-khan of Persia (690-94/1291-95); his coins also bear the name Īrinjīn Dūrjī (Tibetan Rin-chen rDo-rje “Jewel Diamond”) bestowed upon him by Buddhist lamas.
Gaykhatu, a man whose dissolute nature appalled even the Mongol courtiers, who felt that neither their daughters nor their sons, wives, or young officers were safe from his lechery, had also compounded the chao fiasco by excessive personal spending and criminal wasting of funds.
Gaykhatu (Mongolian: Gaikhalt; Mongolian Cyrillic: Гайхалт, died 1295) was the fifth Ilkhanate ruler in Iran. He reigned from 1291 to 1295. During his reign, Gaykhatu was a noted dissolute who was addicted to wine, women, and sodomy, according to Mirkhond.[1]
Gaykhatu (Mongolian script:ᠭᠠᠶᠺᠠᠲᠦ; Mongolian: Гайхат, romanized: Gaikhat, lit. 'Surprising') was the fifth Ilkhanate ruler in Iran. He reigned from 1291 to 1295.
Gaykhatu. Gaykhatu (Mongolian: Gaikhalt; Mongolian Cyrillic: Гайхалт, died 1295) was the fifth Ilkhanate ruler in Iran. He reigned from 1291 to 1295. During his reign, Gaykhatu was a noted dissolute who was addicted to wine, women, and sodomy, according to Mirkhond.
