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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · İKİNCİ FASIL

Batuk Bey — Bayundurlu

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 391 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Mecitözü Emîri Alâeddîn Satuk Bey bin Bayundur Bey’in birâderi Çağan Bey’in oğludur. Babasının vefâtında yerini tutup Mecitözü kazâsına hâkim oldu. Hacı Kutlu Şâh devrinde iştihâr edib Hacı Şâdgeldi Pâdişâh devrinde vefât etdi. Meşâhîr-i ümerâdan idi. Mahdûmu Cibril Bey’dir.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was the son of Çağan Bey, brother of Alâeddîn Satuk Bey, Emir of Mecitözü, that is, of Satuk Bey, son of Bayundur Bey. On his father's death he took his place and became ruler of the district of Mecitözü. He became famous in the time of Hacı Kutlu Şâh and died in the time of Hacı Şâdgeldi Pâdişâh. He was one of the famous emirs. His son was Cibril Bey.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • emîr: the ruler of a region, a bey
  • birâder: brother
  • mahdûm: son
  • hâkim olmak: to hold sway over a place, to take the government in hand
  • iştihâr etmek: to gain fame
  • meşâhîr-i ümerâ: the famous emirs

Mecitözü and the Emirs of Amasya

Mecitözü is today a district of Çorum; before being attached to Çorum in 1916 it remained for a long time under the administration of Amasya, which belonged to Sivas. After the Mongol invasion of 1243 the region came under Mongol influence; when this influence weakened, it passed first to the Eretnids who ruled at Sivas and Kayseri and then, in the 1360s, to the administration of Emir Hacı Şadgeldi in Amasya (İlhan Şahin). Hüsameddin's writing that Batuk Bey died "in the time of Hacı Şâdgeldi Pâdişâh" fits this framework. Since it is known that Hacı Şadgeldi was removed by Kadı Burhâneddin around 1381 (Kemal Göde), it can be concluded that Batuk Bey died before this date; this is an inference.

Hacı Kutlu Şâh was the first bey of the principality founded in Amasya in 1340 and known, after its founder's name, as the Kutluşahlar or Şadgeldiler. Hüsameddin's showing Batuk Bey as having become famous "in the time of Hacı Kutlu Şâh" can be understood within the framework of this principality. Among the buildings in Mecitözü surviving from the fourteenth century is the Elvan Çelebi Zaviye, dated 753 (1352).

No information was found in other sources on Alâeddîn Satuk Bey, Bayundur Bey, Çağan Bey, Batuk Bey or his son Cibril Bey. Whether Batuk Bey belonged to the Bayundur (Bayındır) tribe also could not be determined from the sources read.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 391. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

Official sources

Books

  • Kemal Göde, "Eretnaoğulları", TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 11, İstanbul 1995, p. 295-296.

Other sources

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