Unknown wives Sögetei Sübügetei Legacy Perhaps more important than himself was the role of his family, the Toluids, in shaping the destinies of the Mongol Empire. Through his Nestorian Christian wife Sorghaghtani Beki, Tolui fathered Möngke, Kublai, Ariq Böke, and Hulagu. The first three of these would all go on to claim the title of Great Khan, while Hulagu founded the Ilkhanate and Kublai the Yuan dynasty of China. It was the rivalry between Tolui's own sons, Kublai and Ariq Böke, that fragmented the power of the empire and set the western khanates against each other in the Toluid Civil War between 1260 and 1264. Rivalry between the Toluids and the sons of Ögedei and Jochi caused stagnation and infighting during the regency periods after the deaths of Ögedei and his son Güyük. Möngke posthumously awarded his father the title of Khagan in 1252. When Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty in 1271, he had his father Tolui placed on the official record as Ruizong. Tolui's line ruled Mongolia and south Mongolia from 1251 to 1635, Mongolia until 1691, and Bukhara until 1920. He and his wife are honored beside Genghis Khan at the mausoleum constructed in the 1950s by the Chinese Communists in Inner Mongolia. Ancestry Depictions Literature Music in the Mirrors by Greg Kuznetsov, in which a Mongolian conqueror named Tolui loosely inspired by the historical figure is the main antagonist. See also Möngke Khan Kublai Khan Hulagu Khan Yuan dynasty Ilkhanate Northern Yuan dynasty Notes References 1191 births 1232 deaths Mongol Empire people Mongol khans Regents 13th-century viceregal rulers 13th-century Chinese monarchs Sons of emperors