Background
She played significant role behind the scenes during her father’s lifetime.
She played significant role behind the scenes during her father’s lifetime.
In 1206, the Ongud allies of Genghis Khan attended his great Kurultai and brought gifts from their lands.
In recognition of their loyalty, Alakhai was bethrothed to a relative, perhaps the son, of Alaqush of the Ongud. When she was about sixteen years old, she went south of the Gobi Desert, where the Ongud lived a semi-nomad life. This gave Genghis Khan a foothold beyond the Gobi Desert, where many sedentary kingdoms of large populations were located.
Alahkai Beki supplied the Mongols with horses and provisions, whenever they came south.
In 1211, the Ongud revolted against Alakhai and tried to kill her. Genghis Khan then sent part of his army with her and the revolt was suppressed.
With Jingue she had a son named Negudei. She was also left in charge of those Chinese territories conquered by her father, after he withdrew back to Mongolia in 1215.
He gave her the title "Princess Who Runs the State".
She regularly dispatched troops to aid her father in campaigns. Her son Negudei died in battle in the 1230s. She then did worked to promote the interests of Boyaohe"s other children by arranging marriages for them to women of the Borjigin Clan.
Alakhai promoted literacy and, according to a Chinese envoy, read daily.
Medicine and religious text in specific held her interest.
