Kedağralıdır. Taşan Bey birâderi İdris Bey bin Emîr Çelebi mahdûmudur. Taşanoğullarıyla hayli müddet emâret nizâında bulunarak aralıkda Kedağra Emîri oldu. Ba’dehû Hacı Şadgeldi Paşa’ya ilticâ edib ma’iyyet-i ümerâsından olarak 783’de vefât etdi.
Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
İlyâs Bey-Emîr Çelebizâde
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 342 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ
Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)
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In Modern English
He was from Kedağra. He was the son of İdrîs Bey bin Emîr Çelebi, brother of Taşan Bey. He contended for a considerable time with the Taşanoğulları over the emirate and in the meantime became Emir of Kedağra. Later he took refuge with Hacı Şadgeldi Pasha, joined the beys in his retinue, and died in 783 [1381].
Notes and Research
Old Words in the Text
- birâder: brother
- emâret nizâı: a dispute over the emirate, a struggle for rule
- iltica: taking refuge
- ma'iyyet-i ümerâ: the beys in a great man's retinue
- aralıkda: in the meantime
The Taşanoğulları and Şadgeldi Pasha
The Hacı Şadgeldi Pasha of the text was the son of Hacı Kutlu Şâh and ruled Amasya for more than twenty years, between 760 [1359] and 783 [1381]. After the weakening of the Eretna state he established an independent emirate and was defeated and killed in 1381 in a battle with Kadı Burhaneddin. The year 783 that Hüsameddin gives for İlyâs Bey's death is the same year Şadgeldi died; but the sources read draw no link between the two events.
According to Hüsameddin, the Taşanoğulları lived in the Köprü area. One article, relying on Hüsameddin, names Taşanoğlu Umur Bey: the Seljuk prince Kılıç Arslan clashed with Umur Bey because he regarded Havza as his own farm. The same article reports from Hüsameddin that Çelebi Sultan Mehmed protected the Taşanoğulları living in Köprü and suppressed the Kubadoğulları. These records show that the Taşanoğulları were an influential family in the Havza and Köprü region; the "dispute over the emirate" in the text may be the struggle for power in this region, but this is an inference. The identity of Taşan Bey, İdrîs Bey and Emîr Çelebi, and the Taşanoğulları' link to Kedağra, are not explained in the sources read.
The name Kedağra, whether as a place or as a seat of government, does not appear in the sources read. The present name and location of this place could not be verified.
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 342–342. amasya.bel.tr
Academic studies
- Mehterhan Furkani, "Siyasî ve İlmî Bir Kişilik: Amasya Emiri Hacı Şadgeldi Paşa ve ed-Dürerü'l-mensûretü fi'l-furûʻ Adlı Eserin Kendisine Nispeti", Uluslararası Amasya Âlimleri Sempozyumu Bildiriler Kitabı I, Amasya, 2017.
- Zerrin Günal Öden, "Kadı Burhaneddin Karşısında Bir Selçuklu Şehzadesi Kılıç Arslan", Belleten, 64/241 (Aralık 2000), https://belleten.gov.tr/tam-metin/2577/tur