Puresh

Puresh (Moksha: Каназор Пуреш) was a Moksha kanazor (king), ruler of the Murunza kingdom in the Middle Volga region.[1] He was ally of Russian Grand Prince Yuri II of Vladimir and of the Cuman Khan Köten against the Volga Bulgars and Erzyas in the 1220s.[2] In September 1237 the Mongols invaded Murunza and Jebe and Sübötäi forced Puresh to join the Mongol army in their European campaign. Puresh's warriors became the vanguard of the Mongol army and took part in the seizure of Kiev, Sandomierz and Zawichost.[3]

Puresh
Kanazor
Reign?–1241
SuccessorPrincess Narchat
BornPlace unknown
DiedApril 9, 1241
Legnica, Poland
Burial
Legnica
IssueAtämaz
Houseunknown
Fatherunknown
Motherunknown

Puresh secretly met with the High Duke of Poland, Henry II the Pious, on 8 April 1241, one day before the Battle of Legnica, and they agreed that the Moksha soldiers would join forces with the troops of the Silesia and Greater Poland. Sübötäi uncovered the plot - and Puresh, his son Atämaz and many Moksha warriors were killed while they slept after midnight on 9 April 1241.[4]

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  1. Карамзин Н. М. История государства Российского. Т. II. Москва, 1991, ISBN 978-5-02-009493-2
  2. Первушкин В. И., Пуреш / Пензенская энциклопедия. Москва, Научное издательство «Большая Российская энциклопедия», 2001, p. 509, ISBN 978-5-85270-234-0
  3. John Bridges. The «Opus Majus» of Roger Bacon. Elibron Classics, 2000, ISBN 978-1-4021-9735-2
  4. Itinerarium fratris Willielmi de Rubruquis de ordine fratrum Minorum, Galli, Anno gratia 1253. ad partes Orientales.


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