Temür Khan

Temür Khan, called Öljeyitü Khan in Mongolian and known by his temple name as the Emperor Chengzong of Yuan, was the second emperor of the Yuan dynasty of China. He was born in 1265 as the third son of Crown Prince Zhenjin and a grandson of Kublai Khan, and after his grandfather died in 1294 he won the succession at a gathering of the Mongol princes by showing the better knowledge of the sayings of Genghis Khan. He reigned until his death in 1307 and is counted as the sixth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, although that title was nominal after the empire had divided. His government honoured Confucian scholars, called off planned invasions of Japan and Dai Viet, and secured the nominal overlordship of the western Mongol khanates around 1304. It was weakened by corruption, fiscal strain and a failing paper currency, and he died without a surviving male heir, leaving the throne to a nephew.