1386 or 1387
Karaman, 1386–1387
While Murad is in the Balkans, his son-in-law Alaeddin Ali Bey of Karaman attacks the towns Murad had bought from Hamid and takes Beyşehir. Murad winters at Bursa and then marches on Konya with Bayezid and with Serbian troops sent by his vassals. The Ottoman chronicles date the campaign to 1386, while other accounts give 1387.
The armies meet at Frenkyazısı on the plain of Konya, and the Karamanid army is beaten. Bayezid is said to earn the name Yıldırım, the Thunderbolt, in this battle. Alaeddin shuts himself up in Konya and offers peace, and Çandarlı Ali Pasha advises the sultan to press on until Alaeddin submits. During the siege Serbian soldiers who plunder against the sultan’s orders are executed, and some of the Serbian vassal lords turn toward Lazar.
Konya with the Alaeddin Mosque on its citadel hillWikimedia Commons, Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Konya view from Seljuk Tower 3998.jpg)
Alaeddin’s wife Nefise asks her father Murad to spare him. By the Ottoman chronicles Murad pardons Alaeddin on condition that he comes to kiss the sultan’s hand. Beyşehir returns to the Ottomans, and the peace between the two beyliks holds until Bayezid’s reign.
The portal of the Hatuniye Medrese in Karaman, founded in 1382 by Nefise, Murad’s daughter and Alaeddin Ali’s wifeWikimedia Commons, Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Karaman Hatuniye Medresi 4812.jpg)
Sources
- Mehmed Neşri, Kitâb-ı Cihan-nümâ (late 15th century).
- Halil İnalcık, The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age, 1300–1600 (1973).
- Colin Imber, The Ottoman Empire, 1300–1481 (1990).
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