The name of the queen is rendered variously in her own time as Ṭayṭughlī Ḫātūn (by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa), Thaythalu-Katon (by the Venetian Doge Andrea Dandolo), and Taydula (by Russian sources and translations of Mongol documents).

[5] Like the other wives of the khan, the principal wife is described as riding in a wagon drawn by silk-gilt-caparisoned horses, inside a tent being distinguished by a dome of silver, ornamented with gold or wood encrusted with gems, and attended by two ladies in waiting, six slave girls, and ten to fifteen pages.

[6] At his audience with Taydula Khatun, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa found her sitting amid ten elderly ladies in waiting, before a group of fifty young slavegirls cleaning gold and silver salvers filled with cherries.

[7] During a festival, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa describes Taydula Khatun sharing a cushion with her husband inside a large tent, surrounded by separately seated other royal wives and the khan's daughter and sons.

Although he was duly recognized as khan, Taydula Khatun favored her younger son, Jani Beg, who perhaps acted as regent during his brother's absence, or had perhaps already been designated successor by their father himself.

[10] Taydula Khatun continued to exercise significant influence over Jani Beg, and her close cooperation with him led some foreign sources to conclude, erroneously, that she was his wife rather than his mother; there may also be some confusion between similarly named or titled royal women.

[18] On the other hand, Taydula may have retained sufficient influence to ensure continued royal favor to the Russian Metropolitan, Aleksej, and he was allowed to return home after Berdi Beg's accession.

[20] The death of Berdi Beg in 1359 left his grandmother Taydula Khatun the senior royal in a court apparently without a suitable male heir, and the subsequent rapid succession of khans is blamed on her intrigues.

Taydula next placed on the throne the pretended Kildi Beg, apparently a mistake in this tradition for the Qulpa of the more primary sources, but he was not accepted as a genuine and legitimate ruler.