Togha Temür

Togha Temür (died 1353) was the last strong claimant to the Ilkhanate from the house of Genghis Khan, and the only one from eastern Iran. A descendant of Genghis's brother Qasar, he led the nomadic Chete, and his power rested on Gorgan and western Khorasan.

When the Ilkhan Abu Sa'id died heirless in 1335 and the realm fell apart, eastern amirs backed him. His march west in 1337 took the capital Soltaniyeh, but the Jalayirid Hasan Buzurg defeated him and sent him home; in 1338 Hasan made him Ilkhan in return for help, though the alliance soon soured.

He never reunited the Ilkhanate, spending his last years fighting the Sarbadars of western Khorasan without subduing them. In December 1353 their leader came to his camp and killed him and his household, and most of his lands passed to the Sarbadars.