Masoud I , also known as Rukn ad-din Masoud ( Arabic. ركن الدين مسعود , tur . I. Mesud ) - Sultan of Ruma from 1116 to 1156.
| Masoud I | |||||||
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| osman. ركن الدين مسعود tour. Rukn al-Dīn Mas'ūd | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Malik Shah I | ||||||
| Successor | Kylych-Arslan II | ||||||
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| Death | 1156 | ||||||
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| Father | Kylych-Arslan I | ||||||
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Gaining power
After the death of Kylich-Arslan near the Khabur River in 1107 [1], the power in the state was seized by the deceased’s brother, Malik Shah .
By that time, Masoud was held captive by the Danishmendids , and only in 1116 he managed to convince his jailers to help him in the struggle for power. In this, a large role was played by his wife, who belonged to this family.
Having gained power, the new sultan began methodically to join the kingdom of small Turkmen emirs to his kingdom, while at the same time fighting with his own brother Arap, who owned Metilena [2] .
By 1125, the situation was not in favor of Masoud, and he fled to Constantinople, where he met a good reception. After this, teaming up with the Danishmendids, he defeated his brother, who ended his days in the capital of Byzantium [3] . Massoud has repeatedly clashed with Byzantium in his reign, the troops of Manuel Komnin even plundered the neighborhood of Iconium.
Second Crusade
At the end of the reign, Masoud had to confront the European armies that set off for the Second Crusade. First, the German army of Emperor Conrad III arrived, then the French army under the command of Louis VII . The Sultan twice defeated the Crusaders: the Germans at Doriley in 1147, the second army at Laodicea in 1148 [2] .
Family
He was married to the Byzantine. Masoud’s son, Kylych-Arslan II, became his heir, and one of the daughters [4] [5] [6] became the wife of John (son of Isaac Komnin ), who fled to the Iconic Sultanate after a quarrel with the emperor and converted to Islam there.
Notes
- ↑ Anatolia in the Period of the Seljuks and the Beyliks , Osman Turan , The Cambridge History of Islam , Ed. Peter Malcolm Holt, Ann KS Lambton and Bernard Lewis, (Cambridge University Press, 1970), 239.
- ↑ 1 2 Tamara T. Rice. Seljuks. Nomads - Conquerors of Asia Minor
- ↑ Assumption F.I. History of the Byzantine Empire. Division VI. Comnins. Chapter X. Eastern affairs . - 2005.
- ↑ The Turkish Element in Byzantium, Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries , Charles M. Brand, Dumbarton Oaks Papers , Vol. 43, (1989), 20.
- ↑ Norwich, John Julius. Byzantium: The Decline and Fall. - New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 .-- P. 81–82. - ISBN 0 6794 1650 1 .
- ↑ O city of Byzantium: annals of Niketas Choniatēs By Nicetas Choniates, Harry J. Magoulias, pg. xxiv
Literature
- Eremeev D.E., Meyer M.S. State of the Seljukids of Asia Minor in the first half of the 13th century // History of Turkey in the Middle Ages and the New Time: Textbook . - M .: Publishing House of Moscow State University, 1992 .-- 248 p. - ISBN 5-211-02201-7 .
- Rice Tamara T. Seljuki. Nomads are the conquerors of Asia Minor. - M .: Centerpolygraph, 2004 .-- 238 p. - ISBN 5-9524-0949-0 .
- Assumption F. I. History of the Byzantine Empire. Division VI. Comnins. Chapter X. Eastern affairs. // History of the Byzantine Empire. In 5 volumes - M .: AST, Astrel, 2005 .-- V. 5 .-- 558 p. - ISBN 5-271-03856-4 .