Buluqhan Khatun

Buluqhan Khatun (lit. "Queen Buluqhan"), also Bulughan, Bulukhan, Bolgana, Bulugan, or Zibeline for Marco Polo (Ch: 卜鲁罕), was a 13th century Mongol princess, and the principal wife of the Mongol Ilkhanid ruler Arghun. She belonged to the Mongol tribe of the Bayaut (also Baya'ud, Ch: 伯牙吾).

She gave birth to two sons Ghazan and Öljeitü, both of whom later succeeded Arghun, and eventually converted to Islam. Arghun had Öljeitü baptized at birth, and gave him the name "Nicholas" after Pope Nicholas IV. ["Arghun had one of his sons baptized, Khordabandah, the future Oljaitu, and in the Pope's honour, went as far as giving him the name Nicholas", "Histoire de l'Empire Mongol", Jean-Paul Roux, p.408]

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