European link to the Mongols

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Todd Farmerie posted on Mar 5, 2007 to Gen-Medieval "Subj: Re: European link to the Mongols"
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'''European royal link to the Mongols'''
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I have seen two sets of claims. Basarab, the founder of the family
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which bore his name, was son of Thocomerius of Wallachia. This appears
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to be a rendering of the Cuman name Toktomer, and there was a Mongol
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princeling of this name lining in the Crimea at the time.  This has
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led to the suggestion (I specifically recall it from Montcrieffe) that
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the Basarabs were of Mongol origin.  I also recall there being some
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Russian nobility that married Mongols, and it has been claimed that
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Ivan the Terrible descended from them, but I don't recall the details.
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It is perhaps relevant (and not coincidental) that these claims would
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==Secondary sources==
trace the two (perhaps) most notorious European potentates (bearing in
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*Todd Farmerie posted on Mar 5, 2007 to Gen-Medieval "Subj: Re: European link to the Mongols" that two royal-Mongol gateways are Basarab of Wallachia, and some ancestress of Ivan the Terrible of Russia. Todd also states that Vlad the Impaler was a Basarab.
mind that Vlad the Impaler was a Basarab) from Mongols. Some of the
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accounts I have seen are explicit in the suggestion that it is the
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*Paul Heath posted on Mar 5, 2007 to Gen-Medieval "Subj: Re: European link to the Mongols" quoting Moncrieffe (HRH, page 84): "... Kutyen Khan took refuge in Hungary ... and married his daughter to King Bela IV's son, the future King Stephen V ..." And again quoting Moncreiffe (HRH, page 101): "... There seems no reason, therefore, to doubt that 'Thocomerius', father of Basarab the Great, Prince of Valachia 1310-38, was one of two contemporary Tatar princes both named Toktemir in that area, both great-grandsons of prince Juchi, first Khan of the Golden Horde (died 1224) ..."
descent from Mongols that explain these Men Behaving Badly, which
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smacks of racism. This is as an aside, because the genealogy is what
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*Paul Heath (op cit) also, quoting Warnes (Chronicle of the Russian Tsars, page 29): "... the grand prince married Yelena Glinskaya, a 23-year-old princess of Tatar descent ... Their first child, Ivan ..." And again quoting Warnes (Chronicle of the Russian Tsars, page 44): "... Ivan announced that he was abdicating ... Simeon Bekbulatovich, a descendant of Genghis Khan, was enthroned as tsar ... Ivan resumed the tsardom once the year was over, and pensioned off Simeon by making him grand prince of Tver."
it is, and whatever metainterpretation people draw from it have no
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bearing on the facts, one way or the other."</blockquote>
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*Don Stone posted on Mar 5, 2007 to Gen-Medieval "Subj: Re: European link to the Mongols" This report on Wagner's Pedigree 44 (Atlantic to Pacific, 1274) is correct.  The last marriage connection on the Pacific side is Maria (illegitimate daughter of Michael VIII Palaeologus), who married Abaka, Ilkhan of Persia, nephew of Kubla Khan.
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==See also==
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[[Prince William to Genghis Khan]]

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