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Edigu, or Edigey, also İdegäy or Edege Mangit (1352-1419) was an emir of the White Horde who founded the new political entity, which came to be known as the Nogai Horde. He is the national hero of Kazakhs, Tatars, and Crimean Tatars, as the memory of his exploits lives on in the epics of those peoples.

Edigu was from the Crimean Manghit tribe, the son of Baltychak, a Mongol noble who was defeated and killed by Khan Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in 1378. He gained fame as a highly successful general of Tokhtamysh before turning the arms against his master. By 1396, he was a sovereign ruler of a large area stretching between the Volga and Yaik Rivers, which would later be called the Nogai Horde.

In 1397 Edigu allied himself with Timur-Qutlugh and was appointed General and commander-in-chief of the Golden Horde armies. In 1399 he inflicted a crushing defeat on Tokhtamysh and Vytautas of Lithuania at the Vorskla River. Thereupon he managed to unite under his rule all Jochi's lands, albeit for the last time in history.

In 1406 he tracked down his old enemy Tokhtamysh in Siberia and killed him. The following year he raided Volga Bulgaria. In 1408, he staged the last destructive Tatar invasion of Russia, which hadn't paid the tribute due to the horde for several decades. Edigu burnt Nizhny Novgorod, Gorodets, Rostov, and many other towns but failed to take Moscow, though he had still burnt it.

Two years later Edigu was dethroned in the Golden Horde and had to seek refuge in Khwarezm. Shah Rukh of Herat expelled him back to Sarai, where he was assassinated by one of Tokhtamysh's sons in 1419. Edigu's dynasty in the Nogai Horde continued for about two centuries, until his last descendants moved to Moscow, where they converted to Orthodox Christianity and became known as Princes Urusov and Yusupov.

Edigu was married to Djanikhe, daughter (or sister) of Khan Tokhtamysh. The couple had four children:

  • a daughter, married to Timur-Khan of the Golden Horde
  • a daughter, married to Muhammed-Djukhi, grandson of Tamerlane
  • Mansyr-Murza, married and had two sons:

    • Temsubui-Murza, married and had three sons:

      • Zamamet-Murza, married and had a daughter:

        • Shagi-Saltan, married to Sheikh-Aliar, Khan of the ... Horde
      • Djankhuvat, married and had a son:

        • Tenish, married to a daughter of Mengli-Guirey, Khan of the Crimea, and had a son:

          • Merdesh
      • Hadjikhe, married and had a son:

        • Musekha, married and had a daughter:

          • Djelal-Saltan, married to Fatkh-Guirey, Khan of the Crimea
    • Temir-Murza, married and had three children:

      • Tavakhul, married to a sister of Mengli-Guirey, Khan of the Crimea
      • Hasan, married to a daugnhter of Mengli-Guirey, Khan of the Crimea
      • Nur-Saltan, married firstly to Ibrahim, Khan of Kazan, married secondly to Mengli-Guirey, Khan of the Crimea
  • Nureddin, Khan of the Nogai Horde, married and had two sons:

    • Akhaz, Khan of the Nogai Horde, married and had a son:

      • Musa, Khan of the Nogai Horde, married to a daughter of Ivakh, Khan of the Tyumen Horde, and had six children:

        • Jusuf, Khan of the Nogai Horde (died 1556, killed in action), married and had three children, his issue were Princes Yusupov:

          • Prince Il, married and had a son:

            • Prince Seyush, married and had a son:

              • Prince Dmitri Seyushevich Yusupov-Knyazhevo (died 1694), Steward, married firstly to Ekaterina Yakovlevna Sumarokova, married secondly to Princess Tatiana Fyodorovna Korkodinova (died 1719), had issue, Princes Yusupov
          • Prince Ibrahim, married and had a son:

            • Prince Seyush, married and had a son:

              • Prince Ibrahim, settled in Moscow and took the name Nikita Yusupov-Knyazhevo, married and had three sons:

                • Prince Vasili Nikitich Yusupov-Knyazhevo, married and had two sons:

                  • Prince Vasili Vasilievich Yusupov-Knyazhevo, married and had two sons:

                    • Prince Alexander Vasilievich Yusupov-Knyazhevo
                    • Prince Stepan Vasilievich Yusupov-Knyazhevo
                  • Prince Boris Vasilievich Yusupov-Knyazhevo, married and had a son:

                    • Prince Alexei Borisovich Yusupov-Knyazhevo, married Kleopatra Mikhailovna Miloslavskaya, daughter of Mikhail Sergeievich Miloslavsky by wife Maria Vasilievna Meshcherskaya, and had a daughter:

                • Prince Andrei Nikitich Yusupov-Knyazhevo
                • Prince Fiodor Nikitich Yusupov-Knyazhevo
          • Souyumbeka, married to Saf-Guirey, Khan of the Crimea
        • Prince Kutum, married, his issue were Princes Koutoumov
        • Prince Sheidyak, married, his issue were Princes Sheidyakov
        • Prince Izmail, Khan of the Nogai, married a daughter of Din-Muhammed and had two sons:

          • Din-Akhmed, Khan of the Nogai, married, had two sons:

            • Said-Ahmed, married and had a daughter:

              • a daughter, married to Murad-Guirey, Khan of the Crimea
            • Prince Baiterek, married, his issue were Princes Baiterekov
          • Prince Urus, "Tsar of Kasimov" in 1600 (died 1610, killed in action), married and had three sons:

            • Prince Khan, married and had a son:

              • Prince Boris Kanmurzich Urusov (died February 14 1620), married to Princess Tatiana Petrovna Tcherkasskaya (died March 24 1646), without issue
            • Prince Araslan, married and had a son:

              • Prince Piotr Araslanovich Urusov, married as second husband to Anna Grigorievna Godunova and had a son:

                • Prince Vasili Petrovich Urusov, Steward, married to Princess Stepanida Petrovna Repnina, without issue
            • Pr Saty, married, his issue were Princes Urusov
        • Fatimah, married to Mahmet-Amin, Khan of Kazan
        • a daughter, married to Sheikh-Ahmed, Khan of the ... Horde
  • Abbas-Murza



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