Story 35. The founder of Kongrat, Geumhaeng, was the 15th ancestor of Genghis Khan of the Korras lineage and the 8th ancestor of Agolta of the Yekiras lineage.

 

Story 35. The founder of Kongrat, Geumhaeng, was the 15th ancestor of Genghis Khan of the Korras lineage and the 8th ancestor of Agolta of the Yekiras lineage.

The Geumhaeng family succeeded in the war to recover the land lost during the time of their grandfather, “Kiyan,” by attacking Silla in the south of Balhae under the secret order of Daeinsu, the Sun King of Balhae. They settled in Pyeongsan, Hwanghae-do, and lived as the local governor of Balhae, “Paeseo Goryeo County King (浿西高麗郡王).” After that, according to <Jin Dynasty History>, after about a generation and a half had passed, Hambo, one of Geumhaeng’s three sons, who was 60 years old, went to Wanyanbu Bokgansu (完顔部 僕幹水) north of Gilju (吉州), or Banangun (盤顔郡) of Balhae for some reason. At the same time, the youngest brother Bohwal-ri went to Yara (耶懶) of today's Hamheung, Balhae era.

Among these two, the 4th generation descendant of Bohwal-ri in <Jin Dynasty History> was Alan Kowai in <Jipsa Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia>, and she was the 10th ancestor of Genghis Khan. She is called the "mother of all Mongolia" today.

Bohwal-ri (保活里) was therefore the 14th ancestor of Genghis Khan, and her father, Geumhaeng, the Golden Jar, was the 15th ancestor of Genghis Khan. This was the genealogy that <Jipsa Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia> states as Tusbudau (Bohwal-ri) → Kongliut → Misar Uluq → Korras → Alan Kowai.

The founder of the Jin dynasty, Hambo (函普), the elder brother of Bohwal-ri, went to Wanyanbu Bogansu (完顔部 僕幹水), which was the northern part of today's Jizhou (吉州 Giljoo). He was the founder of the "Yekires clan" tribe in the terminology of <Tarikh-e Monghul, Collected History of Mongolia>, and the 7th great-grandfather of Wanyan Agolta (完顔 阿骨打), who founded the Jin dynasty. Therefore, Hambo was the 14th collateral ancestor of Genghis Khan.

In other words, Agolta, the 7th great-grandson of Hambo (函普), was the 7th collateral ancestor of Genghis Khan. This means that the royal family of Balhae, the Jin dynasty, the Yuan dynasty, and the Mongol Empire 4 Khanates all come from the same family.

The eldest of these two brothers, Ago-rae (阿古迺), was the founder of the “Konggrat tribe” and the 11th ancestor of Burte Ujin, wife of Genghis Khan. The great-grandfather of these three brothers was “Ki-yan (大澗)”, the grandson of Yabal, the founder of the second royal lineage of Balhae. Yabal’s fourth-generation descendant was Geum-haeng, and Bo-hwal-ri’s three brothers were the fifth-generation descendants.

Among them, the descendants of the younger brother Hambo and the youngest Bo-hwal-ri became the founders of the Jin (金) dynasty, the Yuan (元) dynasty, and the “Mongol Four Khanates”, respectively.

The “lost link of history” that tells us this surprising fact is none other than “Balhae’s Pyeongju (平州) monk Geum-haeng (金幸).” This is because the youngest son of that Geumhaeng was Bohwal-ri, and the 4th generation descendant of this Bohwal-ri was Alan Gowa, the 10th great-grandmother of Genghis Khan.

<The Secret History of the Mongols> records Alan Gowa and her father Korirardi Mergen in Section 8 and below. However, the ancestors of these farther and his daughter were not revealed. Therefore, based on <the Secret History of the Mongols>, other than Bodonchar, the 9th great-grandfather of Genghis Khan, and his mother Alan Gowa, her father Korirardi Mergen, her mother Bargojan Gowa, and her maternal grandfather, “Bargojin Tokum (the lord of Balhaejin Daegun [大郡]), Bargodai Mergen,” no further ancestral genealogy was known.

<The Secret History of the Mongols> states that “the roots of Genghis Khan are Burte Chino∙∙∙∙∙, born under the high Tengger (heaven)”, but other than Bodonchar, the 9th direct ancestor of Genghis Khan, his mother Alan Go, and his father Korirardai Mergen, no other ancestors are known.

Also, most scholars of the Secret History of the Mongols believe that “Burte Chino” is the oldest ancestor of Genghis Khan. <The Secret History of the Mongols> states that “Burte Chino (Buryo Daesirang)” is the root of Genghis Khan, but he cannot be considered the first ancestor of Genghis Khan. Because, although the 10th generation descendant of Burte Chino, “Dobon Mergen (大王 靺鞨)” was the first husband of Alan Gowa (Alan Gul Clan, 阿蘭 乞氏), he was by no means the father of “Bodon Char” (Bojan Char (Bojang Theory, King Bojang) in Western history books such as <사국사Taikh-I Arba' Ulus, 四汗國, Four Khan Countries>), the 9th ancestor of Genghis Khan.

In the end, within the system of <Secret History of the Mongols>, Genghis Khan’s direct ancestors can only be traced back to “Bodon Char” in the paternal lineage, and above that, his mother Alan Gowa and Alan Gowa’s father Korirardai Mergen (Goryeo Malgal, 合蘭路氏 靺鞨,“Korras” in <Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia >).

If so, the genealogy of Burte Chino, the highest ancestor of his genealogy in <the Secret History of the Mongols>, from Dobon Mergen, the first husband of Alan Gowa, who was not the true father of Bodon Char, the 9th great-grandfather of Genghis Khan, was by no means the true father, grandfather, or ancestor of Bodon Char. That genealogy was only the genealogy of Burte Chino, the ancestor of Dobon Mergen, who was not related to Bodon Char, the ancestor of Genghis Khan.

In contrast, <Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia> recorded the genealogy of the “Khoras tribe” of the Konggrat (Great Goryeo clan, Goguryeo clan) tribe, which was the lineage of Alan Gowa (Alan Gowa), the ancestor of Genghis Khan, and its founder, “Golden Jar.” Therefore, in the genealogy of <Tarikh-e Monghul, 集史 History of Mongolia>, Genghis Khan's ancestors can be traced back at least 5 generations from Alan Gowa to the "Golden Jar".

According to the genealogy of <Taikh-I Arba' Ulus, 四汗國, Four Khan Countries>, it can be traced back much further than that, as shown in the chart below.

 

<True Chinggis Khan Ancestors Genealogy Chart>

 

<Secret History of Mongolia>       <History of the Four States>

[Mangli Khan]

[Burte Chino]                     [Tinggis Khan/Tengis Khon/Yabal]

↓                                                [Il Han/Ilha]

[Kiyan/Gan]

↓                                                 [Kiyan's Son]

↓    <History of   [Golden Jar/Geumhaeng/Geum Khan/Altun Han]

↓      Mongolia>                                   ↓

↓   [Churluk Mergen] [Kubai Sire] [Tusbuda/Bohwali]    <Secret History of

↓                    Mongolia>

↓                            [Kongliwood/Big Goryeo Clan]               [ ? ]

                                                                                             ↓                           ↓   

↓                 *Burte Chino ∙∙∙           [Misar Ulukg]      [Bargodai Mergen]

↓                                                                                      ↓                                    ↓    

↓   <History of Mongolia> [Khoras, Korirardai Mergen]   ↔   [Bargojin Gowa]

↓                                                                          ↓

[Dobon Mergen] ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ [Alan Gowa/Aran Geulga] ↔ [Man in the Light]

(10th female ancestor)   ↓        

                         [Bodon Char]

 ↓

Bodon Char's 9th generation descendant  [ Genghis Khan]

 Now, we have learned about the "three tribes of Konggrat" and their relationship with each other in <Tarikh-e Monghul, Collected History of Mongolia> that continues to the founder of the second royal family of Balhae Dynasty, Daeyabal. The most important thing is that the specific and substantive figures of the lineage above the “Korras (Korirardai Mergen)”, the core figure of the Korras tribe, the direct ancestor of Genghis Khan among the three major tribes, were found in Eastern history books such as <Jin Dynasty History > and <Goryeo History>.

The “genealogy” reflected in <Saguksa Taikh-I Arba' Ulus, 四汗國, Four Khan Countries>, etc., which most scholars today naturally take for granted as “Mongols,” was found, and the genealogy was compared with Eastern and Western history books, and it turned out that his ancestors were not at all the “Mongols” that everyone knows today.

Genghis Khan’s ancestors were originally “Royal concubines' children of the Goguryeo royal family” who were dispatched as local rulers and came from “Malgol (Malgal).” When Goguryeo fell and the 1st legitimate royal line disappeared, the seed (a separate species of Goguryeo and a separate species of Buyeo) that branched off from the Goguryeo royal family and established “Balhae (渤海) = Goryeo (高麗)” on the old land of Goguryeo, which was torn apart by Silla and Tang in just one generation, was the Malgal Dae clan.

 The reason why King Bojang, the last king of Goguryeo who was taken to Chang’an in Tang, contacted the Malgal as soon as he returned to Andong (安東, or Liaodong) from Tang and tried to reestablish Goguryeo was precisely this. When this fact was discovered, he was taken back to Chang’an (長安, Xi’an) in Tang and met an unfortunate death. 

After about 230 years, when the Liao dynasty of the Khitan destroyed Balhae, which was founded by the Malgal Dae clan, they soon established the Josin (女眞) confederacy and the Jin dynasty. They were descendants of Jumong, the founder of Goguryeo, and the descendants of the Goguryeo royal family.

Today, scholars and the public call Genghis Khan's race "Mongolian" since the early 1300s, as stated in <Selected History (Tarikh-e Gojide)> written by Karbini, and the name of his own race and country, "Mongol," which Genghis Khan first gave to the country he founded. However, before that, they were actually the Joseon people, "Malgal-ians," or "Goguryo-ans," or "Koryo-ans."