Ghazan had in 1303 again sent a…
May 1304 CE
Ghazan had in 1303 again sent a letter to Edward I, in the person of Buscarello de Ghizolfi, reiterating Hulagu's promise that they would give Jerusalem to the Franks in exchange for help against the Mamluks.
However, Ghazan dies on May 10, 1304, and Crusader dreams of a rapid reconquest of the Holy Land are destroyed.
Ghazan is succeeded by his brother Oljeitu, who continues the Il-Khanate’s adoption of Islam.
Oljeitu had been baptized as a Christian and received the name Nicholas after Pope Nicholas IV.
In his youth he at first converted to Buddhism, one of the dominant religions in the Mongol empire at that time, but then to Sunni Islam together with his brother Ghazan.
He had changed his first name to the Islamic name Muhammad, but some of his relatives and companions had given him a nickname of Khutabanda.
Rashid al-Din, a Jew converted to Islam, as Ghazan’s prime minister, a post he is to hold continuously between 1298 to 1318, wrote that Khutabanda had adopted the name Oljeitu following Oljeitu Temur Khagan enthroned in Khanbalik.
But some Muslim source mentions that it rained when he was born, and delighted Mongols called him by the Mongolian name Oljeitu, meaning auspicious.