Muhyi ad-Din Mas'ud Shah

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Muhyi ad-Din Mas'ud Shah ( Turkish: Muhiddin Mesut Şah ; † 1204 in Ankara ) was a prince of the Rum Seljuks .

Life

Muhyi ad-Din Mas'ud Shah was the second youngest son of the Seljuk sultan Kılıç Arslan II. This divided the kingdom between his eleven sons in 1186, with Mas'ud Ankara being awarded. Even before the death of the father, the brothers fought fiercely for the throne. In 1192 Kılıç Arslan died and Kai Chosrau I came to power.

Mas'ud was able to assert himself as an independent prince in his part of the world. From July 1195 he supported the Byzantine pretender to the throne Pseudo-Alexios II in a campaign in Bithynia , in the course of which the strategically important cities of Dadybra , Krateia and Claudiopolis were under the control of Emperor Alexios III. were snatched away. In December 1196, both sides signed a peace treaty which obliged the Byzantines to pay tribute.

Mas'ud eventually succumbed to an attack by his brother Suleiman II , who conquered Ankara in 1204, and was killed.

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literature

  • Claude Cahen : The Formation of Turkey. The Seljuk Sultanate of Rum: Eleventh to Fourteenth Century . Translated and edited by Peter Malcolm Holt. Pearson / Longman, Harlow 2001, ISBN 0-582-41491-1 , pp. 39-44.
  • Dimitri Korobeinikov: Byzantium and the Turks in the Thirteenth Century. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-870826-1 , pp. 97, 116-117, 124-125.
  • Alexis GC Savvides: Byzantium in the Near East: Its Relations with the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum in Asia Minor, the Armenians of Cilicia and the Mongols, AD c. 1192-1237 (= Βυζαντινά Κείμενα και Μελέται. T. 17, ISSN  1106-6180 ). Κέντρο Βυζαντινών Ερευνών - ΑΠΘ, Θεσσαλονίκη 1981, pp. 75-78, 80-84.
  • Alicia Simpson: Niketas Choniates. A Historiographical Study. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-967071-0 , p. 308.

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