Kayqubad III
Kayqubad III (Old Anatolian Turkish: كَیقُباد سوم or ʿAlāʾ ad-Dīn Kayqubād bin Farāmurz (Persian: علاء الدین کیقباد بن فرامرز) was briefly sultan of the Sultanate of Rum between the years of 1298 and 1302. He was a nephew of the deposed Kaykaus II and had strong support among the Turkmen. As sultan he was a vassal of the Mongols and exercised no real power.
| Kayqubad III | |||||
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| Seljuq sultans of Rum | |||||
| Reign | 1298–1301/2 | ||||
| Predecessor | Kaykhusraw III | ||||
| Successor | Mesud II | ||||
| Born | ca. 1283 | ||||
| Died | 1302 | ||||
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| House | House of Seljuq | ||||
Reign
He first appears circa 1283 as a pretender to the Seljuq throne. He was recognized by the Turkmen Karamanids, but he was defeated by vizier Fakhr al-Din Ali and Kaykhusraw III and sought refuge in Cilician Armenia.[1] Nothing is known of his movements again until 1298, when he was appointed to the sultanate by the Ilkhan Mahmud Ghazan upon the downfall of Masud II. He purged the Seljuq administration of his predecessor’s men with extreme violence and became deeply unpopular; as a result when he visited the Ilkhan in 1302, he was executed and replaced with his predecessor Mesud II in order to keep the peace.[2]
Sources
- Claude Cahen, Pre-Ottoman Turkey: a general survey of the material and spiritual culture and history, trans. J. Jones-Williams, (New York: Taplinger, 1968) p. 294
- Cahen, Pre-Ottoman Turkey, pp. 300f
External links
- Prof. Dr. Mehmet Eti. "Seljuqs of Rum, Kay-Qubadh III, silver dirham". Archived from the original on 2008-08-01.
| Preceded by Mesud II |
Sultan of Rûm 1298–1301/2 |
Succeeded by Mesud II |