Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 334 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Amasya Beylerbeyi Emîr Seyfeddîn Torumtay’ın Türk kölesidir. Müşârün-ileyhin zaman-ı vilâyetinde kethüdâsı [232] olarak nâil-i imâret oldu. 675’de esir olan Torumtayzâde Emîr Sinâneddîn Mûsâ Bey’i fidye ile tahlîs için 676’da Mısır’a gidip geldi.
Torumtay’ın vefâtından hafîdi Emîr Nâsıreddîn Mehmed Bey’in maiyyetinde Amasya ümerâsından olup 710 sâline doğru vefât etdi. Mahdûmu Mûsâ Bey’dir. Bunun evlâdına Esen Tay Oğulları dendi.
He is a Turkish slave of the beylerbeyi of Amasya, Emir Seyfeddin Torumtay. In the time of that man's governorship he rose to the emirate as his steward (kethüda). In 676 [1277-78] he went to Egypt and back to ransom Emir Sinâneddin Mûsâ Bey, son of Torumtay, who had been taken captive in 675 [1276-77].
After Torumtay's death he was one of the emirs of Amasya in the retinue of Torumtay's grandson Emir Nâsıreddin Mehmed Bey, and died around 710 [1310-11]. His son is Mûsâ Bey. His children were called the Esen Tay Oğulları.
Torumtay entered the Seljuk court in the time of Alâeddin Keykubad, became commander of the Amasya citadel toward the end of the reign of Gıyâseddin Keyhusrev II, served for a time as emir of Malatya, and was then appointed governor of Amasya. He is counted as governor of Amasya from 1249. In the struggle for power between İzzeddin Keykâvus II and Kılıç Arslan IV he was captured and later pardoned. In 1254 he was a member of the Seljuk delegation sent to the Mongol ruler Möngke Khan. He took office at a time when his predecessor Seyfeddin Haydar had been forced to leave Amasya after complaints by the Mongols, and he kept up a government that looked after the people against growing Mongol pressure. Hüsameddin's "beylerbeyi" agrees with this senior position of Torumtay.
When the anti-Mongol revolt of Hatîroğlu Şerefeddin broke out in 1276, Şerefeddin sent Torumtay's son Sinâneddin Mûsâ, together with his own brother and other emirs, to Damascus to obtain help from the Mamluk sultan Baybars. The revolt failed; the Mongol commander Kongurtay came to Anatolia and brought the situation under control, and Şerefeddin was executed. Torumtay, when tried, said he had joined the revolt under compulsion and saved his life on conditions of 400,000 dirhams, 200 horses, gifts for the Mongol lords, and the upkeep of 1,000 Mongol soldiers in winter. Mûsâ, for his part, was among those who met Baybars and persuaded him to come to Anatolia; when events did not turn out as expected, Baybars arrested him and a few others. Mûsâ was held captive in Egypt, and after his release he returned to Amasya ill and died some time later.
This account agrees with Hüsameddin's information that he was taken captive in 675: the year 1276 corresponds in large part to Hijri 675. On 15 April 1277 Baybars defeated the Mongols at Elbistan; after the clash many soldiers of the Rum were taken captive, and Pervâne's son was also made prisoner. Since this date falls in the last months of Hijri 675, Mûsâ's captivity may be connected with this campaign; this is an inference and could not be verified in the sources. The information that he was ransomed does not occur in the sources read; it is found only in Hüsameddin.
Torumtay's death is given in the sources as 1280; there are also researchers who give 1278, the date of construction of the Torumtay Tomb inscription, as the year of death. His successor as governor was Mûsâ's son Nâsıreddin Mehmed Bey; this matches Hüsameddin's phrase "his grandson Emir Nâsıreddin Mehmed Bey". The trusteeship of the foundation Torumtay had established for the Gök Madrasa was left first to him, then to his grandson Mehmed son of Sinâneddin Mûsâ and his male line. The name Esen Tay and the phrase "Esen Tay Oğulları" do not occur in the sources read. The person named as Torumtay's deputy in 1277 is İzzeddin Gül Bey; there is no record of his relation to Esen Tay.
The tomb that Torumtay had built in 1278 still stands in Amasya, opposite the Gök Madrasa Mosque. It is reported that besides Torumtay the graves of his children and grandchildren are in the tomb; thus Mûsâ and Nâsıreddin Mehmed, whom Hüsameddin mentions, might be expected to lie in the same building, but this is an inference. The structure has two storeys, a rectangular plan and is built mainly of cut stone, with its decoration concentrated in the upper parts.
No information on Esen Tay and his son Mûsâ Bey was found in other sources.
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