But Töregene still resented Ögedei's officials and the policy of centralizing the administration and lowering tax burdens.

[citation needed] With the support of Chagatai and her sons, Töregene assumed complete power as regent in spring 1242 as Great Khatun[5] and dismissed her late husband's ministers and replaced them with her own, the most important being another woman, Fatima, a Tajik or Persian captive from the Middle Eastern campaign.

She put Abd-ur-Rahman in charge of general administration in North China, and Fatima became even more powerful at the Mongol court.

The Grand Komnenos of Trebizond contributed 200, while the young Ayyubid prince of Aleppo supplied 1000 horsemen.

[9] In addition to these, Kaykhusraw commanded the Seljuq army and irregular Turkmen cavalry, though both had been weakened by the Baba Ishak rebellion.

The Mongol troops under general Baiju probed the forces of Abbasid Iraq and Ayubid ruled Syria in 1244–46.

During Töregene's reign, foreign dignitaries arrived from the distant corners of the empire to her capital at Karakorum or to her nomadic imperial camp.

The highest-ranking European delegate was Alexander Nevsky's father, Grand Prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich of Vladimir and Suzdal, who died suspiciously just after dining with Töregene Khatun.

[1] Töregene opposed the choice in favor of Güyük, but despite the enormous influence she had on him, was unable to persuade Ögedei to change his selection.

When Temüge Otchigen, the youngest brother of Genghis, gathered his men and tried to unsuccessfully seize the throne, Güyük quickly came to meet him.

Despite her role in ensuring Güyük's election as Khagan, the relationship between Töregene and her son eventually collapsed.

Güyük's men seized Fatima and put her to death by sewing up all of her orifices and dumping her into water; Töregene's supporters in the imperial household were simultaneously purged.