Kaykhusraw I

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Kaykhusraw I
Suleiman II
(second reign)
Reign1205–1211
PredecessorKilij Arslan III
SuccessorKaykaus I
Died1211
Kuyucak, Sultanate of Rum
Burial
ConsortDawlat Raziya Khatun, daughter of Manuel Maurozomes
Barduliya Khatun
IssueKaykaus I
Kayqubad I
Muzaffar al-Din Numan
Names
Ghīyāth al-Dīn Kaykhusraw ibn Qilij Arslān
DynastySeljuk
FatherKilij Arslan II
MotherUmmuhan Khatun
ReligionSunni Islam

Kaykhusraw I (

Suleiman II in 1196.[1]
He ruled it 1192–1196 and 1205–1211.

Name

The name "Kaykhusraw" is based on the name of the legendary Shahnameh hero Kay Khosrow.[2]

Background

Kaykhusraw's date of birth is unknown. He was the eleventh and youngest son of

Byzantine ancestry. Kaykhusraw received a good education during his upbringing, learning other languages besides his native Turkish, which was Persian, Arabic, and Greek.[3]

Marriage

Kaykhusraw married a daughter of Manuel Maurozomes.[4] Manuel Maurozomes would hold the castles of Chonae and Laodicea as a vassal of Kaykhusraw.[5]

Reign

In 1192/93, Kaykhusraw returned the Byzantine nobleman,

Rukn ad-Din Suleiman Shah, quickly advancing towards Konya, Kaykhusraw fled to Constantinople in 1196.[7] He lived in Constantinople from 1197–1203, possibly even being baptised.[8] A mathnawi written by Kaykhusraw himself compares his destiny during that period to that of the legendary Iranian hero Jam (Jamshid), who had to go into exile after losing his divine fortune (farr).[9]

After

Suleiman's death and Kilij Arslan's ascension to the sultanate, Kaykhusraw forced his way into Konya, removed Kilij from power and was enthroned for a second time.[10]

Kaykhusraw

Mediterranean.[11] It was during this year, Kaykhusraw founded a mosque in Antalya.[12]

Kaykhusraw was killed at the Battle of Antioch on the Meander in 1211.[13] His son Kayqubad I, by Manuel Maurozomes' daughter, ruled the Sultanate from 1220 to 1237, and his grandson, Kaykhusraw II, ruled from 1237 to 1246.[14] Kaykhusraw's body was taken to Konya, where it was buried in the ancestral tomb of his family.[15]

Identity

Modern statue of Kaykhusraw I in Antalya, sculpted by Meret Öwezov

According to Rustam Shukurov, Kaykhusraw I "had dual Christian and Muslim identity, an identity which was further complicated by dual Turkic/Persian and Greek ethnic identity".[16]

Culture

Kaykhusraw wrote poetry in Persian.[3] Muhammad ibn Ali Rawandi (died after 1207) dedicated his historical chronicle of the Seljuk Empire, Rahat al-sudur wa-ayat al-surur, to Kaykhusraw.[3][17]

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Preceded by
Sultan of Rûm

1192–1196
Succeeded by
Suleiman II
Preceded by
Sultan of Rûm

1205–1211
Succeeded by