The House of Ögedei, sometimes called the Ögedeids, was an influential
Mongol family and a branch of the
Borjigin clan from the 12th to 14th centuries. They were descended from
Ögedei (c. 1186–1241), a son of
Genghis Khan who succeeded his father to become the second
khagan of the
Mongol Empire. Ögedei continued the expansion of the Mongol Empire.
When, after the Toluid
Möngke Khan's death, the Mongol Empire disintegrated into
civil war, the members of the House of Ogedei were influential players in the politics of the region. From the lines of Genghis Khan's sons — Ogedei,
Jochi,
Chagatai, and
Tolui, the House of Ögedei tended to ally with the
Chagataids (descendants of Chagatai) against the House of Jochi, while seeking control for themselves within the Chagatai Khanate at first. The Ogedeids also allied with the
Golden Horde against the
Yuan founding emperor
Kublai (son of Tolui), who was allied with his brother Hulagu, leader of the
Ilkhanate in Persia. The Ogedeids attempted to unite the Mongol Empire under their own rule, and Ogedeid princes continued to march against the Yuan dynasty well into the 14th century, such as during the
Kaidu–Kublai war.
A peace occurred shortly in 1304, but the war soon resumed. In 1310,
Kaidu's successor
Chapar Khan surrendered to the Yuan emperor
Khayishan, and the territory controlled by the House of Ögedei was divided up by the Chagataids and the Yuan dynasty, after he and his relatives failed to win the Chagatai Khanate. After that, members from this family often appeared as influential contenders or puppet rulers under powerful
amirs and
noyans in the
Northern Yuan dynasty (rump state of the Yuan dynasty) and
Transoxiana in the 14th and 15th centuries. While being
Turkified and vanished into
Tartars.
^Louis Hambis (1945). Le chapitre CVII du Yuan che : les généalogies impériales monogoles dans l'histoire chinoise officielle de la dynastie monogole. Monographies du Tʿoung pao, vol. 38. pp. 71–87