Ghiyath al-Din Kaykhusraw I
غياث الدين كيخسرو الأول
Seljuk sultan of Rum — exiled by his brother, snubbed at Aleppo, pensioned and married into the patriciate at Constantinople until the Frankish sack, then recalled by the Oghuz in 600 and carried into Konya by the acclamation of Aksaray and Konya themselves 1.
At a glance
- Roles
- Ruler
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Anatolia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Overview
Ghiyath al-Din Kaykhusraw ibn Qilij Arslan, sultan of the Rum Seljuks. His brother Rukn al-Din Sulayman drove him out of Konya, and he went to al-Malik al-Zahir in Aleppo, who treated him poorly. He then went to Constantinople, where the Byzantine king treated him well and granted him an iqta', and he married the daughter of a great patrician. When the Franks took Constantinople, he took refuge in the fortress of Hamida. 1
When his brother died in 600 AH, the Turks of the Uj summoned him, and he was defeated before Konya. Then the people of Aksaray proclaimed him, and then the people of Konya themselves, and he took the throne in Rajab and seized his nephew. Ibn al-Athir says that God gathered the lands for him in a single hour. 1
Connections
- Participated in
- Kaykhusraw I's restoration to the Rum Sultanate (600 AH)
People and things also explored
Sources
- al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p. 237-238
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islam.museum contributors. “Ghiyath al-Din Kaykhusraw I”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ghiyath-al-din-kaykhusraw-i/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.