Bayan of the Merkid

Bayan of the Merkid

Bayan of the Merkid (d. 1340) was a Mongol general and official in the Yuan Dynasty. At the turn of the 13th/14th centuries he, together with the Turk El Temür, was a member of the group around Qaishan. Qaishan was a nephew of Temür Khan and appointed to defend Mongolia against the Chagataiite Qaidu. After Temür's death, Qaishan was the one who emerged as the new Yuan emperor, and Bayan was among those who received official positionas as reward. Later, Bayan was governour of Henan.

In the conflicts about the succession of Tugh Temür Khan after 1332, Bayan broke with El Temür and supported Toghon Temür, who ascended the throne in 1333 (the same who would lose China in 1368). He was appointed commander of Royal guard, composed of Mongols, Kypchaks and Asud in 1334. Until 1335 Bayan succeeded in annihilating El Temür's sons and family. Bayan began concentrating official positions in his person that had not been so concentrated before. He implemented rather conservative politics, re-abolishing the examination system, and aiming at containing the number of Han Chinese in the upper echelons of the Yuan bureaucracy. In 1339 he became great chancellor (zh-tp|t=大丞相|p=dà chéngxiàng). At this time he had probably gone too far, in any case he was toppled in 1340 by his nephew Toghto. [Rolf Trauzettel, Die Yüan-Dynastie, in: Micheal Weiers (editor), "Die Mongolen: Beiträge zu ihrer Geschichte und Kultur", Darmstadt 1986, pp. 235f, 245-248]


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