Badr al-Din Lu'lu' Made Sultan at Mosul and the End of the Atabegid House in 631

In 631 AH Badr al-Din Lulu was proclaimed sultan in Mosul, and the Atabeg house came to an end ¹.

Lulu had been a mamluk of the Zangid house and rose through service until he became master of the household. When al-Malik al-Qahir Mas'ud died in 615 AH and was succeeded by his young son, Lulu seized the city in 621 AH. For about ten years he managed it without sitting on the throne. When he took the sultanate in 631 AH, the Zangid house of Zangi ibn Aqsunqur ended, a house that had ruled Mosul, Aleppo, Sinjar, al-Jazira and Harran for about a hundred years since the time of ʿImad al-Din Zangi. The Lulu house took its place, until the sultans who came after ¹.