İsa Çelebi

عيسى جلبي

İsa Çelebi, son of Bayezid I — escaped the Ankara defeat of 804/1402, went to Bursa and proclaimed himself his father's successor, one of the three brothers fighting over the fragments of the state in the Ottoman civil war alongside Süleyman in Edirne and Mehmed in Amasya 1, until Mehmed I prevailed in 1413 2.

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prince
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Anatolia
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Summary

İsa Çelebi, son of Bayezid I, escaped the field of Ankara in 804/1402 and reached Bursa, where he proclaimed himself his father's successor — one of the three brothers fighting over the fragments of the state alongside Süleyman at Edirne and Mehmed at Amasya 1.

The fratricidal war lasted ten years until the youngest, Mehmed I, emerged sole victor in 1413 3.

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Child of
بايزيد الأول الصاعقة
Sibling of
Süleyman Çelebi (prince)· محمد الأول جلبي· Musa Çelebi
Participated in
The Ottoman Interregnum (Fetret Devri)

People and things also explored

محمد الأول جلبي· Musa Çelebi· Süleyman Çelebi (prince)· The Ottoman Interregnum (Fetret Devri)· بايزيد الأول الصاعقة· Sheikh Badr al-Din of Simavna· The battle of Ankara and the capture of Bayezid the Thunderbolt· Bayezid Pasha

Sources

  1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 70
  2. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 72-73
  3. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 70-73
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محمد الأول جلبي

Mehmed I (1379–1421 CE) — the youngest of Bayezid's sons, who fell back on Amasya after Ankara and beat his brothers one by one to reign sole from 1413; 'the second founder' who spent his eight years reunifying the state, personally broke Sheikh Badr al-Din's rising, moved the capital from 'warriors' Edirne' to 'jurists' Bursa', and first sent the annual surra gift to the Amir of Mecca. He died at Edirne in 824/1421 aged forty-three, his viziers concealing the death forty-one days until Murad II arrived.