Rukn al-Din Jahanshah bin Tughril (r.1225-1230) was a Turkoman king of the "Seljuqs of Erzurum".[2] He was a son of Tughril ibn Kılıç Arslan II, also ruler of Erzurum (r.1202-1225). Jahanshah was a grandson of Kilij Arslan II, who had partitionned his kingdom in Anatolia between his numerous sons.
ركن الدنيا والدين, Rukn al-Dunya wa al-Din
ابو الفتح جهانشاه, abu al-Fath Jahanshah
بن طغرل بك, bin Tughril Beg[1]
Before the 1201-1202 conquest of Ezurum by Suleiman II of Rûm, son of Kilij Arslan II, the region of Erzerum had been ruled by a local Turkoman dynasty, the Saltukids from 1071 until 1202.[3] During 30 years after this conquest, Erzurum was ruled by the two Seljuq princes Tughril ibn Kılıç Arslan II and Jahan Shah bin Tughril as an appanage.[3]
Jahanshah bin Tughril participated to the Siege of Ahlat.[4]
He also allied with the Khwarizmian Shah Jalal al-Din, until he was defeated at the Battle of Yassı Çimen in 1230.[5]
The region of Erzurum was incorporated into the Sultanate of Kay Qubadh I in 627/1230.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Copper alloy fals of Jahanshah b. Tughril, x Arzarum, 626 H. 1917.216.764". numismatics.org. American Numismatic Society.
- ^ Coin Hoards. Royal Numismatic Society. 1977. p. 101.
- ^ a b c Bosworth 1996, p. 218 Quote: "The Saltuqids' main role in the political and military affairs of the time was in warfare with the Georgians, expanding southwards from the time of their king David the Restorer (1089-1125), often as allies of the Shah-i Armanids (see above, no. 97); but in a curious episode, Muhammad b. Saltuq II's son offered to convert to Christianity in order to marry the celebrated Queen T'amar of Georgia. The last years of the family are unclear, but in 598/1202 the Rum Seljuq Sulayman II, while en route for a campaign against the Georgians, put an end to the Saltuqids; and for some thirty years after this, Erzurum was to be ruled by two Seljuq princes as an appanage before Kay Qubadh I in 627/1230 incorporated it into his sultanate."
- ^ Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society. Pakistan Historical Society. 1976. p. 123.
- ^ Sinclair, Thomas (6 December 2019). Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages: Pegolotti’s Ayas-Tabriz Itinerary and its Commercial Context. Routledge. p. Note 106. ISBN 978-1-000-75267-0.
Tughril, who ruled at Erzurum from 589 to 618/1192–1221, was allotted Elbistan under the original division by Kılıç Arslan II (Cahen 1968: 111), but was then installed at Erzurum when the latter was captured from the Saltukids at the beginning of the thirteeth century. But he broke away from the Seljuk state in 608/1211-12. His son Rukn al-Din Jahan Shah was finally defeated, and Erzurum annexed to the Seljuk state, in 1230, when the Khwarazmshah, Jalal al-Din, with whom Jahan Shah had temporarily allied, was defeated at the battle of Yassı Çimen.
Sources
edit- Bosworth, C.E. (1996). The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual. New York: Columbia University Press.