Descendants of Tamerlane

I've just read Justin Marozzi's Life of Tamerlane -- the book gives me
mixed feelings -- nice interweaving of the career (which would be dull
all by itself: conquest, massacre, conquest, massacre, conquest,
massacre....) with descriptions of the buildings built (both existing
and demolished) and the sites (all visited recently by the author) and
huge footnotes on things having nothing to do with Big T. The style
was practiced in far better written histories by Freya Stark and Lord
Norwich, among others.

There is a small family tree at the book's start, showing his five
known children and their dates (but not their wives) (pun intended),
and a passel of grandsons, then the line is traced to Babur. No more
dates after the first generation, and no indication of the mother of
each child.

So I'm curious: where on the web might I find T's whole family,
including the Mogul line to the present day (or is it extinct)?

T's Great Queen was a descendant of Jenghiz Khan, on which account he
was able to style himself officially Timur Gurgan, that is, Timur son-
in-law of the celestial ruling house. (This, or Amir Timur, was his
preferred title.) But this marriage (he had at least eight queens at
the time of his death) appears to have been childless.

Among many interesting things I didn't know: T professed allegiance to
the House of Jenghiz, which included allegiance and tribute to the
Yuan dynasty of China (descendants of Kublai Khan), and when that was
overthrown, he still did homage (as it were) for his possessions
(including Iran, Iraq, southern Russia, Uzbekistan and all the other
central Asian -stans, Afghanistan and Delhi), to the first Ming
emperor. Only on that gentleman's death (1399), did he stop paying
tribute to Peking, and he died in 1405 while leading an army of
200,000 towards Xinjiang, intending to add China to his empire. He was
probably nearly 80 and had just conquered Anatolia and razed Damascus,
Smyrna and Aleppo to the ground.

Jean Coeur de Lapin

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