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'''Descent from [[Genghis Khan]]''' ({{lang-mn|Алтан ураг}} '''''Altan urag''''', meaning "Golden lineage"), generally called '''Genghisids''', is traceable primarily in [[Central Asia]]; Mongolia, [[Inner Mongolia]] in China, and Siberia.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}} His four sons and other immediate descendants are famous by names and by deeds.  Later Asian potentates attempted to claim descent from the [[Borjigin]] even on flimsy grounds, such as was considered Mongol matrilineal descent.  In the 14th century, valid sources (heavily dependent on [[Rashid-al-Din Hamadani]] and other [[List of Muslim historians|Muslim historians]]) all but dried up. With the recent popularity of [[genealogical DNA test]]ing, a larger and broader circle of people started to claim descent from Genghis Khan.

== Paternity of Jochi ==
{{See also|Family tree of Genghis Khan}}

[[Jochi]], Genghis Khan's eldest son, had many more recorded progeny than his brothers [[Ögedei Khan|Ögedei]], [[Chagatai Khan|Chagatai]], and [[Tolui]]&mdash;but there is some doubt over his paternity. According to the ''[[The Secret History of the Mongols]]'', the boy was sent to Genghis by [[Chilger]], who had kidnapped his first wife [[Börte]], keeping her in captivity for about a year. In one passage, Chagatai refers to Jochi as "bastard" (although the true meaning of the Mongol term is obscure). To this, Genghis Khan responds: "How dare you talk about Jochi like this? Is not he the eldest of my heirs? That I never heard such wicked words again!" (255). All in all, Genghis Khan pronounces the words "Jochi is my eldest son" thrice (210, 242, 254).

Modern historians speculate that Jochi's disputed paternity was the reason for his eventual estrangement from his father and for the fact that his descendants never succeeded to the imperial throne. On the other hand, Genghis always treated Jochi as his first son, while the failure of the Jochid succession may be explained by Jochi's premature death (which may have excluded his progeny from succession).

Another important consideration is that Genghis' descendants intermarried frequently. For instance, the Jochids took wives from the [[Ilkhan]] dynasty of [[Persia]], whose progenitor was [[Hulagu Khan]]. As a consequence, it is likely that many Jochids had other sons of Genghis Khan among their maternal ancestors.

==Asian dynasties==
Asian dynasties descended from Genghis Khan included the [[Yuan Dynasty|Kublaids]] of [[China]], the [[Ilkhanate|Hulaguid]]s of [[Persia]], the Jochids of the [[Golden Horde]], the [[Shaybanids]] of [[Siberia]], and the [[Astrakhan Khanate|Astrakhanids]] of [[Central Asia]]. As a rule, the Genghisid descent played a crucial role in [[Tatar]] politics. For instance, [[Mamai]] (1335-1380) had to exercise his authority through a succession of puppet khans but could not assume the title of [[Khan (title)|khan]] himself because he lacked Genghisid lineage.

[[Timur|Timur Lenk]] (1336-1405), the founder of the [[Timurid Dynasty]], claimed descent from Genghis Khan; however, this claim remains questionable: there is no clear evidence for his own descent; he associated himself with the family of [[Chagatai Khan]] through marriage. He also never assumed the title "Khan" for himself, but employed two members of the Chagatai clan as formal heads of state. The [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] imperial family of the [[Indian subcontinent]] descended from Timur through Babur and also from Genghis Khan (through his son [[Chagatai Khan]]).

The ruling Wang Clan of the Korean [[Goryeo]] Dynasty became descendants of the Genghisids through the marriage between King [[Chungnyeol of Goryeo|Chungnyeol]] (reigned 1274-1308) and a daughter of [[Kublai Khan]].  All subsequent rulers of Korea for the next 80 years, until King [[Gongmin of Goryeo|Gongmin]], also married Borjigid princesses.  But since all Mongol injects were females, no Y-haplotype entered the Korean royal and noble families during this period, only matrilinear mtDNA.

At a later period, [[Tatar]] potentates of Genghisid stock included the [[List of Kazan khans|khans of Qazan]] and [[List of Qasim Khans|Qasim]] (notably a Russian [[tsar]], [[Simeon Bekbulatovich]], formally Grand Prince of All Rus' from 1575 to 1576, died 1616) and the [[Giray dynasty]], which ruled the [[Khanate of Crimea]] until 1783.<ref>According to some scholars, the Girays were regarded{{by whom?|date=August 2016}} as the second family of the Ottoman Empire after the House of Ottoman: "If Rome and Byzantium represented two of the three international traditions of imperial legitimacy, the blood of Genghis Khan was the third. ... If ever the Ottomans became extinct, it was understood that the Genghizid Girays would succeed them." (Simon Sebag Montefiore. ''Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin''. London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2000, p. 244).</ref>

As the [[Russian Empire]] annexed Turkic polities, their Genghizid rulers frequently entered the Russian service. For instance, [[Kuchum]]'s descendants became Russified as the [[Sibirsky (surname)|Tsarevichs of Siberia]]. Descendants of [[Ablai Khan]] assumed in Russia the name of Princes [[Valikhanov]]. All these families asserted their Genghisid lineage. The only extant family of this group is the House of Giray, whose members left Soviet Russia for the United States and United Kingdom. Even more a Russian tsar [[Simeon Bekbulatovich]] as a grandson of [[Ahmed Khan bin Küchük]] was a descendant of Genghis Khan.

The [[Qing dynasty | Qing]] of China completely exterminated one branch ([[Ligdan Khan]]'s descendants) of the Borjigids after an anti-Qing revolt in 1675 by [[Ejei Khan]]'s brother Abunai and Abunai's son Borni against the Qing.<ref>
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The Qing Emperors then placed the [[Chahar Mongols]] under their direct rule.

==Eastern European gateways==

After the [[Mongol invasion of Rus']], the [[Rurik dynasty]] rulers of Russian principalities were eager to obtain political advantages for themselves and their countries by marrying into the House of Genghis. [[Alexander Nevsky]] was adopted by [[Batu Khan]] as his son.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}} Alexander's grandson [[Yury of Moscow]] married a sister of [[Öz Beg Khan]]; however, they had no progeny. On the other hand, petty Mongol princelings of Genghisid stock sometimes settled in Russia. For instance, [[Berke]]'s nephew adopted the Christian name Peter and founded St. Peter's Monastery in [[Rostov]], where his descendants were long prominent as [[boyar]]s.<ref>See the medieval life of St. Peter of the Horde and records of the Petrovsky Monastery.</ref> [[File:Fyodorstratelate.jpg|200px|thumb|St. Theodore Stratelates, the patron saint of Fyodor the Black, as illustrated in his personal Gospel Book.]]

Crimean Khanate Khan Meñli I Giray was the maternal grandfather of [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] through his daughter, [[Hafsa Sultan (wife of Selim I)|Ayşe Hafsa Sultan]]; thereafter, the [[Ottoman dynasty]] could also claim descent from Genghis Khan through his son Jochi.

The issue of three Russian-Mongol marriages may be traced down to the present. The most famous was the marriage of St. [[Theodore the Black|Fyodor the Black]], later proclaimed a patron saint of [[Yaroslavl]], to a daughter of the Mongol khan [[Mengu-Timur]].<ref>Later sources indicate that Fyodor's father-in-law was [[Nogais|Nogai]] and his mother-in-law was one of Nogai's wives, whose father was Emperor [[Michael VIII Palaiologos]].</ref> Fyodor's relations with the khan were idyllic: he spent more time in the Horde (where he was given extensive possessions) than in his capital. Male-line descendants of Fyodor's marriage to the Tatar princess include all the later rulers of Yaroslavl and two dozens princely families (such as the [[Shakhovskoy]], [[Lvov princely family|Lvov]], or [[Prozorovsky]], among others), which passed Genghis genes to other aristocratic families of Russia.{{citation needed|date=February 2013}}

[[Gleb]], [[Prince of Beloozero]], a grandson of [[Konstantin of Rostov]], was another Rurikid prince influential at the Mongol court. Gleb married the only daughter of [[Sartaq Khan]]. From this marriage descends the House of [[Belozersk]], whose scions include [[Dmitry Ukhtomsky]] and [[Belosselsky-Belozersky family]].

The most problematic is the marriage of [[Narimantas]], the second son of [[Gediminas]] of [[Lithuania]], to [[Toqta]]'s daughter. The earliest source for this marriage is the "Jagiellonian genealogy", compiled in the 18th-century from Ruthenian chronicles by one Joannes Werner. While the marriage is not utterly impossible (Narimont spent several years in the Horde), there are no extant chronicles which mention Narimont's wife. This highly uncertain gateway derives particular interest from the fact that the [[House of Golitsyn]], [[Khovansky (surname)|Khovansky]] and [[Kurakin]] princely families are Narimont's [[agnatic]] descendants.

==Basaraba==

The Genghisid descent of the Russian tsars or kings of [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] cannot be reconstructed from extant documentary evidence. The possibility of such a descent for Western European royalty is even less realistic.

The most popular route is based on the [[House of Basarab]] of [[Wallachia]], which today forms southern [[Romania]]. The first attested ancestor of the Basarab princes was a [[boyar]], [[Thocomerius]]. There are several theories as to his origin. The most popular theory is that he was of [[Cumans|Cuman]] extraction, as noted by the researcher Istvan Vassary (Toq-Tomir: Tihomir).<ref>István Vásáry (2005) "Cumans and Tatars", Cambridge University Press</ref> There were a significant number of Cumans in the region in his time. Also, a major fact such as being descended from Genghis Khan, would have unlikely been hidden, and would have rather been exploited. Some genealogists identify Thocomerius with a Bulgarian boyar named Tikhomir (from the Slavic roots for "calm" and "peace").

Some descendants of the Basarabs moved to neighboring [[Hungary]], and it has been quite convincingly argued that [[Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde]] ([[Elizabeth_II#Ancestry|great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II]]) is a descendant of the Basarab rulers.

== DNA evidence ==
Numerous studies by teams of biochemists, based on the Y-DNA of modern descendants of Genghis Khan, have indicated that Genghis Khan may have belonged to  a subclade of [[Haplogroup C-M217]] (C2) such as C-F4002 (C2b1a3).<ref>''Derenko'' et al., [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225393495_Distribution_of_the_male_lineages_of_Genghis_Khans_descendants_in_northern_Eurasian_populations Distribution of the Male Lineages of Genghis Khan’s Descendants in Northern Eurasian Populations ], ''Russian Journal of Genetics'', 2006.</ref>

Proponents of the theory regarding C-M217 have put forward hypothetical Y-DNA profiles, such as a 25 Marker "Genghis Khan" profile released by [[Family Tree DNA]]:

{{DNA
|393 = 13
|390 = 25
|19 = 16
|391 = 10
|385a = 12
|385b = 13
|426 = 11
|388 = 14
|439 = 10
|389i = 13
|392 = 11
|389ii = 29
|458 = 18
|459a = 8
|459b = 8
|455 = 11
|454 = 12
|447 = 26
|437 = 14
|448 = 22
|449 = 27
|464a = 11
|464b = 11
|464c = 12
|464d = 16
}}

Zerjal et al. (2003)<ref>Zerjal et al., [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1180246/ The Genetic Legacy of the Mongols], ''American Journal of Human Genetics'', 2003.</ref> identified a [[List of haplogroups of historic people|Y-chromosomal lineage]] present in about 8% of the [[man|men]] in a large region of [[Asia]] (about 0.5% of the world total).  The paper suggests that the pattern of variation within the [[Lineage (genetic)|lineage]] is consistent with a hypothesis that it originated in [[Mongolia]] about 1000 years ago, and thus several generations prior to the birth of Genghis.  Such a spread would be too rapid to have occurred by [[genetic drift]], and must therefore be the result of [[Selection (biology)|selection]].  The authors propose that the lineage is carried by likely male-line descendants of Genghis Khan and his close male relatives, and that it has spread through social selection due to the power that Genghis Khan and his direct descendants held and a society which allowed one man to have many children through having multiple wives and widespread rape in conquered cities. All male line descendants of Genghis Khan were all allowed to have numerous wives.<ref>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0214_030214_genghis.html</ref>

However, research published in 2016 suggested that Genghis possibly belonged to the haplogroup [[R-M343]] (R1b).<ref>[http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0161622 G. Lkhagvasuren et al., 2016,"Molecular Genealogy of a Mongol Queen’s Family and Her Possible Kinship with Genghis Khan", ''PLOS 1''] </ref> The controversial result was based on analysis of five bodies, dating from about 1130 – 1250, which were found in graves in [[Tavan Tolgoi]], Mongolia. The physical remains all of the 5 bodies belong to the Mongoloid physical type. The remains are believed to be possibly related with the members of the Mongol "[[Society_of_the_Mongol_Empire#Appanage_system|Golden Family]]", at around the time of Genghis Khan, although it is unsure if the Y-DNA haplogroup marker belong to the Borijigin clan or the products of clan marriages between the female lineage of Genghis Khan’s Borjigin clan and with males of other clans/tribes from Mongolia or Central Asia origin.

==Later descendants==
Actor [[Batdorj-in Baasanjab]] (also known as Ba Sen) is Genghis Khan's descendant through the [[Chagatai Khan|Chagatai]] lineage.<ref>{{zh icon}} [http://old.surag.net/viewArticle.do?method=viewArticle&id=4028815d0db98e1f010dd8aab4420053 巴森：再现成吉思汗风采]</ref>  He is well known for his portrayals of his ancestors and distant relatives in films and television series (including Genghis Khan himself, his father [[Yesugei]], his son [[Ögedei Khan]], and his grandsons [[Möngke Khan]] and [[Kublai Khan]]).

==Popular culture==
* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', the motorway contractor [[Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Mr Prosser|Mr. Prosser]] is (unknown to himself) a direct patrilineal descendant of Genghis Khan. This manifests itself in a predilection for fur hats, a desire to have axes hanging above his front door, being slightly overweight and occasional visions of screaming Mongol hordes.
* Fictional character Shiwan Khan, who is described as the last living descendant of Genghis appears in [[The Shadow]], a collection of serialized dramas, originally on 1930s radio. He also appeared in the 1994 film adaptation, ''[[The Shadow (1994 film)|The Shadow]]''.
* [[Marvel Comics]] supervillains [[Mandarin (comics)|the Mandarin]] and his son [[Temugin]], both primarily opponents of [[Iron Man]], are descendants of Genghis Khan.

==See also==
* [[Descent from antiquity]]
* [[Descent from Charlemagne]]
* [[Descent from Muhammed]]
* [[Hazara people]]
* [[Famous haplogroup members]]
* [[Borjigin]]
* [[Aisin Gioro]]
* [[Chinggisid]]
* [[Giray dynasty]]
* [[Shaibanid]]
* [[Chagatay Khanate]]
* [[Ilkhanids]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book
  | last = Chapin
  | first = David
  | year = 2012
  | title = Long Lines: Ten of the World's Longest Continuous Family Lineages
  | publisher = VirtualBookWorm.com
  | location = College Station, Texas
  | isbn = 978-1-60264-933-0
  }}

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