Īrghun had died in the meantime however, and Kököchin married Arghun's son Ghazan and became his principal wife. They set out from Quanzhou, sailing to Sumatra where they were delayed for five months due to weather, and then to Persia, via Sri Lanka and India (where his visits included Mylapore, Madurai, and Alleppey). There were 14 big ships in all, and each had 4 masts and 12 sails. The party travelled by sea, departing from the southern port city of Quanzhou in the spring of 1291. Kublai, from his capital of Khanbaliq (the Khan's city, modern day Beijing) entrusted Marco Polo with his last duty, to escort princess Kökechin to Arghun along with three envoys, Oulatai, Apusca, and Coja. The name could also be a corruption of kȫkerčin, which means dove or pigeon.įollowing the loss of Arghun's favourite wife Bolgana ("Zibeline"), Arghun sent a request to his grand-uncle Kublai Khan to send him a relative of his dead wife, saying that only one of her kinswomen should succeed her. The name "Kököchin" may therefore be translated as "The Dark Complected". *kȫk) or "dark" as in complexion, and "chin" or "jin" a suffix used for the name of a person. "Kökö" may mean "blue" (especially "sky blue", cf. Absent various accented characters here, the names include Cocachin, Cocacin, Cozotine, Kogatin, Kokachin, Kokechin, Kokejin, Kokochin, Kukachin, and Kukajin. Note that among the various English translations of Polo's book, there are at least ten spellings for her name. The account of Kököchin's journey to Persia was given by Marco Polo.
In 1291, she was betrothed to the Ilkhanate khan Arghun by the Yuan founding emperor Kublai, but married his son Ghazan when Arghun died by the time she had arrived in Persia in 1293.
Kököchin, also Kökejin, Kūkājīn, Cocacin or Cozotine ( Mn: Хөхчин, Ch: traditional Chinese: 闊闊真 simplified Chinese: 阔阔真), was a 13th-century princess of the Mongol-led Chinese Yuan dynasty, belonging to the Mongol Bayaut tribe.
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