Shiban

Shiban (Sheiban) or Shayban (Шибан, Shiban, also spelled Siban) was a prince of the early Golden Horde. He was a grandson of Genghis Khan, the fifth son of Jochi and a younger brother of Batu Khan who founded the Golden Horde. His descendants were the Shaybanids who became important about two centuries later.

Mongol invasion of Europe
Shiban participated the Mongol invasion of Europe and made a decisive attack on the army of Béla IV at the Battle of Mohi in 1241.

Territorial grants by the Golden Horde
Because he had not reached his majority when his father died in 1227, he did not receive any lands at that time. Abulghazi says that after this campaign, Batu gave Shiban lands east of the Ural Mountains on the lower parts of the Syr Darya, Chu River, and Sary su Rivers as winter quarters and the lands of the Ural River flowing off the east side of the Urals, as summer quarters. Shiban was also given 15,000 families as a gift from his brother Orda Khan, as well as the four Uruks of the Kuchis, the Naimans, the Karluks, and the Buiruks, while he assigned him as a camping ground all the country lying between that of his brother Orda Ichin and his own. Thus Shiban's lands were somewhat between Batu's and Orda's and between the Ural mountains and the Caspian Sea.

Descendants
Although it is unknown how long he lived, his descendants continued to rule long after the breakup of the Ulus of Jochi (Golden Horde). It is merely said that he left twelve sons, namely Bainal or Yasal, Behadur, Kadak, Balagha, Cherik or Jerik, Mergen or Surkhan, Kurtugha or Kultuka, Ayachi or Abaji, Sailghan or Sasiltan, Beyanjar or Bayakachar, Majar, and Kunchi or Kuwinji. Shiban's descendants are known as the Shaybanids; his male line continues down to the present time.

One of Shiban's sons, Balagha Bey (Prince Balagha) assisted Hulagu Khan in taking Baghdad in 1258. However, he died in unknown circumstances. According to William of Rubruck, he killed his cousin Güyük Khan in a violent brawl.

A number of Shiban's descendants ascended the throne of the Golden Horde after the extinction of the line of Batu in 1359, including the thrones of the Golden Horde's successor states, like the Khanate of Sibir and the Uzbek Khanate. Two sets of Shiban's descendants established themselves in Central Asia, founding the Khanates of Transoxiana (later Bukhara) and Khwarazm (later Khiva).

The following is a simplified line of descent to these rulers; generations start with Shiban (as 0); "Grey Horde" (following information in Ötemiš-Ḥājjī) designates the Ulus of Shiban in Bashkiria, but both the designation and the succession are somewhat tentative. For the sake of accuracy and consistency, the names, which are found in a bewildering and inconsistent number of variations, are given below in the Perso-Arabic orthography of the major genealogical sources, the Muʿizz al-ansāb and the Tawārīḫ-i guzīdah-i nuṣrat-nāmah, in the standard scholarly transcription used in English-language scholarship (e.g., Bosworth 1996).

0 Shiban, 1st khan of the Grey Horde (d. 1248)
 * 1 Bahadur, 2nd khan of the Grey Horde (d. c. 1280)
 * 2 Jochi-Buqa, 3rd khan of the Grey Horde (d. c. 1310)
 * 3 Bada-Qul, 4th khan of the Grey Horde
 * 4 Ming-Timur, 5th khan of the Grey Horde
 * 5 Pūlād (Khayr-Pūlād), 6th khan of the Grey Horde, later Golden Horde 1362-1365
 * 6 Ibrāhīm, 7th khan of the Grey Horde
 * 7 Khiḍr, 1st Uzbek khan and Sibir 1428-1429
 * 7 Dawlat-Shaykh
 * 8 Abu'l-Khayr, 2nd Uzbek khan 1429-1469; of Sibir 1429-1431; of Khwarazm 1462-1464
 * 9 Shāh-Būdāq
 * 10 Shāh-Bakht Muḥammad (Muḥammad Shaybānī), 1st Shaybanid khan of Transoxiana 1500-1510
 * 11 Khurram-Shāh of Balkh (d. 1511)
 * 11 Suyūnch-Muḥammad
 * 12 Yār-Muḥammad of Bukhara (d. 1554)
 * 11 Muḥammad-Tīmūr of Samarqand (d. 1514)
 * 10 Maḥmūd-Shāh
 * 11 ʿUbaydallāh, 4th khan of Transoxiana 1533-1540
 * 12 ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bukhara, 7th khan of Khwarazm 1539-1540 (d. 1549)
 * 12 Muḥammad-Raḥīm
 * 13 Burkhān-Sulṭān of Bukhara (d. 1557)
 * 9 Shaykh-Ḥaydar, 4th Uzbek khan 1472-1473
 * 10 Khush-Ḥaydar, 5th Uzbek khan 1473
 * 9 Sayyid-Bābā, 6th Uzbek khan 1473-1480
 * 9 Kūchkūnchī-Muḥammad, 2nd khan of Transoxiana 1512-1530
 * 10 Abū-Saʿīd, 3rd khan of Transoxiana 1530-1533
 * 11 Sulṭān-Saʿīd of Samarqand (d. 1572)
 * 11 Jawānmard-ʿAlī of Samarqand (d. 1578)
 * 12 Abu'l-Khayr of Samarqand (d. 1578)
 * 10 ʿAbdallāh I, 5th khan of Transoxiana 1540
 * 10 ʿAbd al-Laṭīf, 6th khan of Transoxiana 1540-1552
 * 11 Muḥammad-Ibrāhīm (Gadāy) of Samarqand (d. after 1568)
 * 9 Suyūnchuk-Khwājah of Tashkent (d. 1525)
 * 10 Kīldī-Muḥammad of Tashkent (d. 1532)
 * 10 Nawrūz-Aḥmad (Barāq), 7th khan of Transoxiana 1552-1556
 * 11 Darwīsh of Tashkent (d. 1578)
 * 11 Bābā-Sulṭān of Samarqand and Tashkent (d. 1582)
 * 9 Khwājah-Muḥammad
 * 10 Jānī-Beg
 * 11 Kīstan-Qarā of Balkh (d. 1544)
 * 12 Qīlīch-Qarā of Balkh (d. after 1546)
 * 11 Pīr-Muḥammad I, 8th khan of Transoxiana 1556-1561 (d. 1567)
 * 12 Dīn-Muḥammad of Balkh (d. 1578)
 * 11 Iskandar, 9th khan of Transoxiana 1561-1583
 * 12 ʿAbdallāh II, 10th khan of Transoxiana 1583-1598
 * 13 ʿAbd al-Muʾmin, 11th khan of Transoxiana 1598
 * 12 ʿIbād-Allāh of Samarqand (d. 1585)
 * 13 Yādigār of Samarqand (d. by 1598)
 * 13 ʿAbd al-Amīn of Balkh (d. 1600)
 * 12 Dūst-Muḥammad (Dūstūm) of Tashkent (d. 1586)
 * 12 Zihr-bānū Begum, married Jānī-Muḥammad b. Yār-Muḥammad, Ashtarkhanid khan of Transoxiana 1600-1603
 * 11 Rustam
 * 12 Ūz-Beg of Tashkent (d. 1598)
 * 13 Khazārā (d. 1598)
 * 11 Sulaymān
 * 12 Pīr-Muḥammad II, 12th khan of Transoxiana 1598-1599
 * 12 Maḥmūd-Sulṭān
 * 13 ʿUbaydallāh of Balkh (d. 1605)
 * 10 Būbāy
 * 11 Kipak
 * 12 Muḥammad-Ibrāhīm of Balkh (d. 1601)
 * 12 Sayyid-Muḥammad
 * 13 Sayyid-Jahāngīr of Tashkent (d. after 1601)
 * 6 ʿArab-Shāh, 8th khan of the Grey Horde, later Golden Horde (d. after 1380)
 * 7 Tūqluq-Ḥājjī, 9th khan of the Grey Horde
 * 8 Tīmūr-Shaykh
 * 9 Yādigār, 3rd Uzbek khan 1469-1472
 * 10 Barkā (d. c. 1482)
 * 11 Īlbārs I, 1st Shaybanid khan of Khwarazm 1512-1518
 * 10 Balbārs
 * 11 Sulṭān-Ḥājjī, 2nd khan of Khwarazm 1518-1519
 * 10 Abūlaq
 * 11 Ḥasan-Qulī (Ḥusayn-Qulī), 3rd khan of Khwarazm 1519-1524
 * 10 Amīnaq
 * 11 Ṣufiyān, 4th khan of Khwarazm 1524-1535
 * 12 Yūnus, 11th khan of Khwarazm 1556-1557
 * 11 Buchugha, 5th khan of Khwarazm 1535-1537
 * 12 Dūst-Muḥammad, 12th khan of Khwarazm 1557-1558
 * 11 Awānish, 6th khan of Khwarazm 1537-1539
 * 12 Dīn-Muḥammad, 8th khan of Khwarazm 1540
 * 11 Qāl, 9th khan of Khwarazm 1540-1549
 * 11 Aqāṭāy, 10th khan of Khwarazm 1549-1556
 * 12 Ḥājjī-Muḥammad I, 13th khan of Khwarazm 1558-1592, 1593-1595, 1598-1602
 * 13 ʿArab-Muḥammad, 14th khan of Khwarazm 1602-1621 (d. 1622)
 * 14 Ḥabash, 15th (co-)khan of Khwarazm 1621-1623 (at Urgench)
 * 14 Īlbārs II, 15th (co-)khan of Khwarazm 1621-1623 (at Khiva)
 * 14 Isfandiyār, 16th khan of Khwarazm 1623-1642
 * 14 Abū'l-Ghāzī I, 17th khan of Khwarazm 1642-1663 (d. 1664)
 * 15 Anūshā-Muḥammad, 18th khan of Khwarazm 1663-1685
 * 16 Khudādād, 19th khan of Khwarazm 1685-1688
 * 16 Muḥammad-Ārang, 20th khan of Khwarazm 1688-1690 (the descent of the 21st-33rd khans is unclear)
 * 16 Yādigār-Muḥammad, 34th khan of Khwarazm 1712-1713 (d. 1714) (the descent of subsequent khans is unclear)
 * 12 Pūlād
 * 13 Bābā-Sulṭān (d. 1595)
 * 10 Abūqāy (d. c. 1535)
 * 11 Ismāʿīl (d. 1545)
 * 5 Beg-Qundī
 * 6 Ḥasan-Beg of the Golden Horde 1368-1369 (d. after 1376)
 * 6 ʿAlī
 * 7 Ḥājjī-Muḥammad of Sibir 1419-1421, of the Golden Horde 1419-1423
 * 8 Maḥmūd (Maḥmūdāq) of Sibir 1431-1464
 * 9 Ibrāhīm (Ibāq) of Sibir by 1473-1495
 * 10 Kūlūk-Sulṭān of Sibir 1502-1511
 * 11 Jagīr of Sibir 1511-by 1530
 * 11 Murtaḍā
 * 12 Aḥmad Girāy of Sibir 1563
 * 12 Qūchūm of Sibir 1563-1598 (d. 1600)
 * 13 ʿAlī of Sibir 1598-1608 (d. 1647)
 * 14 Arslān of Kasimov 1614-1627, married Fāṭima-Sulṭān of Kasimov 1679-1681
 * 15 Sayyid-Burhān of Kasimov 1627-1679
 * 13 Īsh-Muḥammad (Īshīm) of Sibir 1608-1625
 * 14 Abūlī Girāy of Sibir 1625-1636 (d. 1650)
 * 13 Chuwāq
 * 14 Dawlat Girāy of Sibir 1636-1659
 * 9 Muḥammad (Mamūq) of Sibir 1495-1497; Kazan 1495-1496 (d. 1502)
 * 10 Aghlāq of Sibir 1497-1502
 * 8 Sayyid-Aḥmad (Sayyidāq) of Sibir 1464-after 1468
 * 5 Īl-Beg of the Golden Horde 1373-1374
 * 6 Qāghān-Beg of the Golden Horde 1375-1377 (d. after 1380)
 * 7 Maḥmūd-Khwāja of Sibir and the Golden Horde 1428-1430
 * 5 Suyūnch-Tīmūr
 * 6 Suyūnch-Bāy
 * 7 Bābā
 * 8 Ṣūfī
 * 9 Jūmādaq of Sibir 1426-1428
 * 1 Salghan
 * 2 Qutluq-Tīmūr
 * 3 Būrāldāy
 * 4 Balīq
 * 5 Tūn-Khwāja
 * 6 ʿAzīz-Shaykh of the Golden Horde 1364-1367
 * 1 Qadaq
 * 2 Töle-Buqa
 * 3 Mangqutai
 * 4 Khiḍr Khan of the Golden Horde 1360-1361
 * 5 Tīmūr-Khwāja of the Golden Horde 1361
 * 4 Murād of the Golden Horde 1361-1363