Jalayirs

The Jalayirs were a Mongol tribe in Transoxiana. A thousand Jalayir households assigned to Chagatai carried the tribe there.

After Qazan Khan's death in 1346, they became the strongest tribal power in the northern ulus. Their chief Bayazid submitted to Tughlugh Timur in 1360 and was executed the following year. A western branch had followed Hulagu to Persia: Hasan Buzurg founded the Jalayirid Sultanate in 1336, and the Kara Koyunlu overthrew it in 1432. The Central Asian Jalayirs remained a leading Timurid clan.