Edigu (1352-1419) was a Mongol emir of the White Horde who was the founding ruler of the Nogai Horde from 1392 to 1412, preceding Nuraddin.
Biography[]
Nuraddin was born to the Crimean Manghud tribe, the son of a Mongol noble slain in battle with Golden Horde khan Tokhtamysh in 1378. He became a highly successful general of Tokhtamysh before betraying his master and founding the Nogai Horde in the land between the Volga and Ural rivers. In 1397, he allied with Temur Qutlugh and became commander-in-chief of the Golden Horde, defeating Tokhtamysh and the Lithuanians at the Battle of the Vorskla River in 1399. His agents killed Tokhtamysh in Siberia in 1406, and, in 1408, he led a destructive invasion of Russia to force the payment of tribute. He burned Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov, Serpukhov, and other towns before besieging Moscow. After extracting a ransom, he returned to the steppe. He was dethroned in 1410 and fled to Khwarezm, and the Timur ruler Shah Rukh exiled Edigu to Sarai. He ravaged Lithuanian-ruled Kyiv in 1416 but failed to capture the city's castle, and he allied with Vytautas against Tokhtamysh's sons in 1418. He was assassinated by one of those sons, Qadir Berdi, in Sarai in 1419. His descendants would form the Urusov and Yusupov noble families of Moscow.