Ögedei Khan

She gave him at least four sons, including Jochi, whose paternity was always questioned.

Chagatai, Ogedei, and Tolui.

These sons would become rulers of enormous territories within the empire.

His sons by later wives also became important figures.

That seemed like a whole load of rubbish.

He didn't conquer any part of Europe, but his grandson, Batu Khan and Ogedei Khan, did conquer some of Europe.

They got to Kiev and Vladimir and Bulgaria, parts of Poland.

Hungary, Bulgaria, and Croatia.

It seemed as if the prophesied end of the world had come, and the mighty nations Gog and Magog had at last burst forth to fulfill the prophetic words.

But Ogedai died suddenly, and these armies were recalled.

Universal terror seized Europe, and the Pope, as the head of Christendom, determined to send ambassadors to the Great Khan to ascertain his real intentions.

He sent a friar named John of Plano Carpini from Lyon in 1245 to the camp of Batu on the Volga, who passed him on to the court of the Great Khan at Karakorum, the capital of his empire, of which only the slightest trace is now left on the left bank of the Orkhon some hundred miles south of Lake Baikal.