Bayazet biography of Shehzade

Civil wars. The conspiracy against the Sultan and the organization of riots in order to overthrow Suleiman I in the year Bayazid took part in his first military campaign of Hungary. And in the year he was already appointed governor of Karaman. In the year, young Shehzade was proclaimed the second heir. As contemporaries testify: “Bayazid was incommensurable more worthy successor than Schehzade Selim.

He was the favorite of the Janissaries, who resembled his great father and from whom he inherited the best features of his character. " Of course, a fierce rivalry began between the brothers that one of the reasons that served this was the intrigue of Lala Mustafa, a mentor of both Shehzade, who deftly “struck” the brothers. Suleiman, who, as Busbek wrote: “He was fully aware that the whole world was observing the rivalry between his sons” tried to prevent this, sending his sons governors to different ends of the empire.

But soon the Alexandra Anastasia Lisowska-Sultan died, and now nothing could keep the brothers from an open confrontation. Having opposed the appointment in Amasyu where shekhzade Mustafa had recently served, and the unrest about his execution was still not subsided, Shehzade Bayazid with faithful troops performed at the horse. Selim, relying on the military contingents sent by his father, spoke towards Bayazid and won a brilliant victory.

He forced his brother to retreat to Erzerum, from where he fled to the Persian shah Tahmaspu along with his supporters and 4 sons. First, the Sephevids Persian dynasty accepted the disgraced Shehzade with honors and gifts, which are supposed to be the son of the great Sultan Suleiman. To which Bayazid answered Tahmaspa with a gift that included fifty Turkmen horses in a luxurious harness and impressing the Persians by the Ottoman riding demonstration.

Then there was a diplomatic exchange of letters between the ambassadors of Suleiman, demanding the issuance or execution of traitors, and Tahmasov, who resisted both, based on the laws of Muslim hospitality. At first, the shah used his royal hostage, trying to bargain the territories captured by the Ottomans in Mesopotamia, but Suleiman did not make such concessions.

He threatened: if the Shah hopes to preserve the world, he should give out a bayazid and sent 4 thousand to Tahmasa. For execution by Shehzade, an authorized executioner from Konstantinius arrived in Kazvin Persia. Bayazida and his sons Orhan, Osman, Abdullah, Mahmoud strangled a year.

All this time, Murad remained in Bursa - the youngest three -year -old from the sons of Bayazid. Suleiman did not spare the child.