1378–1381
Germiyan and Hamid, 1378–1381
Süleyman Şah of Germiyan, wary of both Karaman and the Ottomans, marries his daughter Devletşah Hatun to Murad’s son Bayezid. The wedding is dated 1378 or 1381. Her dowry is the Germiyan capital Kütahya with Simav, Eğrigöz (Emet) and Tavşanlı, and the 2,000 to 3,000 Ottoman troops who escort the wedding party take over smaller places as well. Bayezid becomes governor at Kütahya, and Süleyman Şah moves his seat to Kula. Devletşah is often confused with Devlet Hatun, another consort of Bayezid and the mother of Mehmed I.
Bayezid I in the Şemâilnâme of Seyyid Lokman, 1579Wikimedia Commons, unknown Ottoman painter, Public domain (Bayezid I. Semailname (Millet Library, Ali Emîrî Collection, History, MS no. 1216).jpg)
Murad also buys from Hüseyin Bey of Hamid the eastern towns of his beylik, among them Akşehir and Beyşehir. The Ottoman chronicles add Yalvaç and Seydişehir and give the price as 80,000 gold pieces. The Hamid beys keep Eğirdir and Isparta.
The castle of Kütahya above the town, the capital of GermiyanWikimedia Commons, Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Kütahya castle 3952.jpg)
Ottoman land now runs from the Sea of Marmara to the edge of the Konya plain and borders Karaman, whose bey Alaeddin Ali has been married to Murad’s daughter Nefise since 1378.
Sources
- Aşıkpaşazade, Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osmân (late 15th century).
- Mustafa Çetin Varlık, Germiyan-oğulları Tarihi, 1300–1429 (1974).
- Halil İnalcık, The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age, 1300–1600 (1973).
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