Boraqchin (Tatar)

{{Short description|Senior wife of Batu Khan}}

{{for|the wife of Ögedei Khan|Boraqchin (wife of Ögedei)}}

Boraqchin Khatun was an Alchi Tatar woman, one of the Tatar tribes that roamed the east of Mongolia.

She was the chief or senior wife of Batu Khan, a grandson of Genghis Khan, and probably the mother of Sartaq Khan. In 1257, she served as regent of the Golden Horde on behalf of Ulaghchi, who was Sartaq's son and probably her grandson.{{cite book |last1=Broadbridge |first1=Anne |title=Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire |date=2018 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=256}} After Ulaghchi's death, Berke ousted Boraqchin and took control of the Golden Horde.{{cite book |last1=De Nicola |first1=Bruno |title=Women in Mongol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206-1335 |date=2017 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |chapter=2}}