Bayezid I

Bayezid I
  • Sultan-ı İklîm-i Rum
  • Sultanu'l-Guzat ve'l-Mücahidin[1]
  • Khan
Bayezid I by Cristofano dell'Altissimo, c. 16th century
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Padishah)
Reign16 June 1389 – 20 July 1402
PredecessorMurad I
Successor
Interregnum (1402 – 1413)
Mehmed I
Bornc. 1360
Ottoman Beylik
Died8 March 1403(1403-03-08) (aged 42)
Akşehir, then under Timurid occupation
Burial
ConsortsDevletşah Sultan Hatun
Devlet Hatun
Olivera Despina Lazarević
Hafsa Hatun
Maria Fadrique
Others
Issue
Among others
Fatma Hundi Hatun
Süleyman Çelebi
İsa Çelebi
Musa Çelebi
Mustafa Çelebi
Mehmed I
Names
Bayezid Han bin Murad Han
DynastyOttoman
FatherMurad I
MotherGülçiçek Hatun
ReligionSunni Islam
TughraBayezid I's signature

Bayezid I (Ottoman Turkish: بايزيد اول; Turkish: I. Bayezid), also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt (Ottoman Turkish: یلدیرم بايزيد; Turkish: Yıldırım Bayezid; c. 1360 – 8 March 1403),[2] was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389 to 1402. He adopted the title of Sultan-i Rûm, Rûm being the Arabic name for the Eastern Roman Empire.[3] In 1394, Bayezid unsuccessfully besieged Constantinople. Bayezid vanquished all the Beyliks and proceeded to conquer and vassalize the entirety of Anatolia. In 1402, he once more besieged Constantinople, appearing to find success, but he ultimately withdrew due to the invasion of the Mongol conqueror Timur.[4] He defeated the Crusaders at the Battle of Nicopolis in what is now Bulgaria in 1396. He was later defeated and captured by Timur at the Battle of Ankara in 1402 and died in captivity in March 1403, which triggered the Ottoman Interregnum.

  1. ^ Kemal Çiçek; Ercüment Kuran; Nejat Göyünç; Halil İnalcık; İlber Ortaylı; Güler Eren (2000). The Great Ottoman-Turkish Civilisation: Philosophy, science, and institutions. Yeni Türkiye. p. 31. In the letter coming with the envoy, Sultan Bayezid I became pleased for it addressed him as "Sultanu'l-Guzat ve'l-Mücahidin" (The Sultan of Ghazis and Holy Warriors)...
  2. ^ "Bayezid I - Ottoman sultan". britannica.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2016.
  3. ^ Peirce, Leslie P. (11 May 1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-508677-5. Archived from the original on 23 September 2017 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Mango, Cyril. The Oxford History of Byzantium. New York: Oxford UP, 2002. pp. 273–274 [ISBN missing]