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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Ahmed Bey — Kubâdzâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 125 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Lâdiklidir. Simre-i Lâdik emîri Alâeddîn Keykubad bin Sultân Tâceddîn Altunbaş Gâzi Çelebi evlâdından Âdil Bey bin Cüneyd Bey bin Ali Bey’in mahdûmudur. Pederinin [394] vakfına mütevellî ve meşâhîr-i ümerâdan olduğu hâlde 900 hudûdunda vefât etdi. Birâderleri Hüseyin, Mahmûd Beylerdir.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was from Lâdik. He descends from the line of Alâeddîn Keykubad, who was emir of the Simre-i Lâdik and son of Sultan Tâceddîn Altunbaş Gâzi Çelebi; he was the son of Âdil Bey, son of Cüneyd Bey, son of Ali Bey. While mütevelli of his father's waqf and one of the well-known beys, he died around 900 [1494-95]. His brothers are the Beys Hüseyin and Mahmûd.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • emîr: bey, ruler or governor of a region
  • evlâd: here, lineage, descendants
  • mahdûm: son
  • peder: father
  • mütevellî: the person who runs a waqf and spends its income according to the conditions in the waqf deed
  • meşâhîr-i ümerâ: the well-known among the beys
  • hudûdunda: around, in the vicinity of
  • birâder: brother

The Kubadoğulları and Lâdik

Ahmed Bey's lineage goes back to the Kubadoğulları, a small Turkmen principality that ruled the regions of Samsun, Kavak, and Lâdik after the dissolution of the Anatolian Seljuk State. The name of the principality comes from Alâeddîn Keykubad, whom Hüsameddin also mentions. Its founder is Tâceddin Altunbaş Gazi Çelebi; Mehmet Öz introduces him as a grandson of the Seljuk sultan İzzeddin Keykâvus II, while in some sources he appears as a son of Sultan Mesud II. The date of Altunbaş's death is also uncertain: according to one view he died between 1340 and 1350, and according to another view, based on his grave in the village of Şeysafi in Samsun, in 1357. After him his son Keykubad established authority in Samsun, Kavak, and Lâdik, and Keykubad's son Ali Bey was subject to Hacı Şâdgeldi, emir of Amasya, and to his successor.

The genealogy Hüsameddin gives (Ali Bey, Cüneyd Bey, Âdil Bey, Ahmed Bey) agrees with the known generations of this dynasty. Cüneyd Bey was emir of Samsun when Bayezid I (Yıldırım) marched on the region in 1398 and withdrew from the city without fighting; after the Battle of Ankara he returned and re-established his principality. According to Mehmet Öz, he was probably killed in 820-822 [1417-19] by the Tâceddinoğulları, who held the Niksar and Çarşamba area. Cüneyd's son Hüseyin Bey took Samsun once more in 1422, but when Lala Yörgüç Pasha had the Turkmen beys he had summoned to Amasya killed, he himself went to Amasya and surrendered. According to Hüsameddin's genealogy this Hüseyin Bey would be Ahmed Bey's uncle; he should not be confused with the Hüseyin Bey mentioned in the entry as Ahmed Bey's brother.

By the end of the fifteenth century, when Ahmed Bey lived, the Kubadoğulları had ceased to be a principality and had become a local bey family under Ottoman administration. That Ahmed Bey is remembered not as a ruler but as mütevelli of his father's waqf clearly shows this change. The name "Simre-i Lâdik" also appears in Ottoman records: in 1576-77 the Simre-i Lâdik is counted among the kazas of the sanjak of Amasya together with Gümüş, Gedegra, and Zeytun. Lâdik would regain importance a few years after Ahmed Bey's death, when Bülbül Hatun, wife of Bayezid II, built a mosque and an imaret here and established waqfs.

No information was found in other sources about what Âdil Bey's waqf was or about Ahmed Bey's life.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 125–125. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

Other sources

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