Jochi Khan dies on the Kazakh steppe

1226

Genghis Khan's eldest son, whose legitimacy was always questioned due to his mother's captivity, died in his Central Asian appanage months before his father. His sons Batu and Orda would inherit the western territories and build the Golden Horde, the Mongol successor state that would last longest of all. Rumors that Genghis had ordered his son's death persisted among the steppe clans for generations.