
Chief Kaidu of Amman (1230-) was a noble of the Ilkhanate.
Biography[]
Kaidu was born in 1230 to the Borjigin clan, a dynasty of Tengri Mongols that ruled the Mongol Empire. He was the son of Ogedei Khan and the great-grandson of Genghis Khan. Kaidu was a noble of the Ilkhanate, and in 1261 Hulegu Khan, who had just conquered Syria from the Qutuzid Sultanate, granted Kaidu the chiefdom of Amman in present-day Jordan. On 18 February 1265 he arranged the poisoning of High Chief al-Muwahhid Abdallah Taqi al-Din of Edessa on Hulegu's orders, and on 18 March Kaidu successfully killed him.