AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Uğurlu Bey, Emir Şemseddin

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 371 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasya’da medfûn olan Fâtıma Hûnd Hâtun binti Sultân Keykâvûs Selçûkî kölelerinden olduğu vakfiyesinde yazılıdır. Müşârün-ileyhânın ma’iyyetinde bir müddet Antalya’da bulunup ümerâdan oldu. Ba’dehû beraberce Amasya’ya gelip yerleşti.

Sultân Altunbaş Gâzi Çelebi bin Sultân Mes’ûd’un Amasya’da iki defa saltanâtı esnâsında pervânesi olup 718’de Gâzi Çelebi’nin firâr ve ihtifâsında menkûb oldu. Ba’dehû Çobanoğlu Timurtaş Bey’in ma’iyyetine girip emâretini muhâfaza etdi.

727’de Timurtaş Bey’in Mısır’a firârında Torumtayoğlu Zeyneddîn Ya’kûbşâh-ı Rûmî’ye intisâb ederek 738’de bunun zamân-ı emâretinde nüfûz ve şöhret kazandı. Ba’dehû vefât etdi. Kibâr-ı ümerâdan idi. Mahdûmları vardır. Bunlara Uğurluoğulları dendi. Bunlardan Bâyezîd [355] ve Îsâ Beyler meşhûr idiler.

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In Modern English

It is written in her deed of endowment that he was one of the slaves of Fâtıma Hûnd Hatun, daughter of the Seljuk Sultan Keykâvus, who is buried in Amasya. He stayed for a time in Antalya in the service of the said lady and became an emir. Afterwards, together with her, he came to Amasya and settled there.

During the two reigns of Sultan Altunbaş Gazi Çelebi, son of Sultan Mes'ûd, in Amasya, he was his pervane (high state official), and in 718 [1318-19], when Gazi Çelebi fled and went into hiding, he fell into disaster. Afterwards he entered the service of Çobanoğlu Timurtaş Bey and kept his emirate.

In 727 [1326-27], when Timurtaş Bey fled to Egypt, he attached himself to Zeyneddîn Ya'kûbşah-ı Rûmî, of the house of Torumtay, and in 738 [1337-38], during his emirate, gained influence and fame. Afterwards he died. He was one of the great emirs. He had children. They were called the Uğurluoğulları. Of these, Bâyezîd and Îsâ Beys were famous.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • medfûn: buried
  • vakfiye: the document that records the terms of a waqf
  • müşârün-ileyhâ: the said (of a woman)
  • ma'iyyet: being in the company or service of someone
  • pervâne: a title of a high state official in Seljuk and Ilkhanid government
  • firâr ve ihtifâ: flight and hiding
  • menkûb: struck by disaster
  • kibâr-ı ümerâ: great emirs
  • mahdûm: son

Fatma Hatun and Keykâvus

A daughter named Fatma of the Seljuk Sultan Izzeddin Keykâvus II is known. The vizier Pervane had told the Ilkhanid envoys that Keykâvus was preparing a revolt with the Turkmens in Antalya; Keykâvus finally had to go with his family first to Byzantine lands and then to Crimea. In 1301 (700) Fatma Hatun had a complex and waqf built in Konya for her mother, her wet nurse and herself, and when she died she was buried in that tomb in Konya; among the revenues of the waqf are some villages from Antalya. Hüsameddin, however, speaks of a Fâtıma Hûnd Hatun buried in Amasya. Whether the two accounts concern the same lady could not be verified; being a daughter of Keykâvus and the Antalya connection form a similarity, but the burial place differs.

Altunbaş Gazi Çelebi

The man Hüsameddin calls "Sultan Altunbaş" is Taceddin Altunbaş, son of the last Seljuk sultan Gıyaseddin Mesud II; he is also known as Gazi Çelebi and Şah Melik Çelebi. It is related in the sources that Çobanoğlu Demirtaş, sent to Anatolia in 1317, had the descendants of the Seljuk line destroyed and that some took refuge with the Karamanids; the flight and hiding in 718 that Hüsameddin gives fall in the same years as these events. According to another researcher, Amasya was for a time in the first half of the fourteenth century under Altunbaş's rule and was taken in 1341. Altunbaş had four sons named Mesud Çelebi, Alp Arslan, Keykubad and Keyhüsrev; Mesud Çelebi lived at Havza, Keykubad at Ladik and Alp Arslan at Amasya.

Another branch connected to this house is the Atabeyzades: Altunbaş's atabeg Nasıreddin Ahmed Bey served as governor of Amasya between 1322 and 1327 and had the Atabey Madrasa built in Amasya.

The Torumtayoğulları and Timurtaş

Torumtay is the Seljuk emir Seyfeddin Torumtay; in the tomb he had built in 1278 opposite the Gökmedrese in Amasya, his children and grandchildren are buried. It is probable that Torumtayoğlu Ya'kûbşah, whom Hüsameddin mentions, belonged to this family (an inference); the name of Ya'kûbşah does not appear in the sources read. Timurtaş's flight to Egypt in 1327, Alâeddin Eretna's succeeding him, and Eretna's taking the administration of Anatolia into his hands in 1337-38 are consistent with the dates 727 and 738; in 1352 Amasya was under Eretna's rule.

What Could Not Be Found

No trace of Uğurlu Bey, of his sons Bâyezîd and Îsâ Beys, or of the name Uğurluoğulları was found in other sources.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 371–371. amasya.bel.tr

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