Chobanid

The Chobanids were descendants of a Mongol family of the Suldus clan who rose to power as commanders of the Ilkhanate. The amir Chupan married into the line of Hulagu, but his dominance angered the Ilkhan Abu Sa'id, who drove him out in 1327; Chupan fled to Herat, where the Kartids put him to death. His daughter Baghdad Khatun married Abu Sa'id and held influence until his death in 1335.

As the Ilkhanate collapsed, Chupan's grandson Hasan Kucek reunited the family, defeated the Jalayirids in 1338 and built a realm around Tabriz, ruling through puppet ilkhans such as Suleiman Khan.

His brother Malek Ashraf took control in 1344 but failed against Baghdad in 1347 and Fars in 1350; when a Golden Horde army sacked Tabriz in 1357 he was executed and his line extinguished, ending Chobanid power in Persia.