Yakub Çelebi

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Yakub Çelebi
Bornc.1362
Ottoman Empire
Died28 June 1389(1389-06-28) (aged 26–27)
Kosovo Field, Branković District (in present-day Kosovo)
Burial
ConsortsFülane Hatun
Paleologa princess
Dynasty Ottoman
Father Murad I
Religion Sunni Islam

Yakub Çelebi (Turkish : Yakup Çelebi, c.1362 – 28 June 1389) was an Ottoman prince and the son of Murad I.

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Biography

He was educated from a young age and was accustomed to administrative and military education. He made a name for himself with his courage, heroism and benevolence and had been with his father Murad I in all his wars. [1]

Both he and his half-brother Bayezid I fought well in the Battle of Kosovo, the last expedition of their father Murad I. During the battle, Yakub Çelebi led the left flank of the army and was subjected to the intense attack by Serbian prince Lazar. With the Serbian army in a bad position, Yakub pursued them. While this was happening, his father, Murad I, was assassinated by a Serbian soldier, variously identified as the knight Miloš Obilić. The throne was given to Bayezid with the agreement of the pashas.[ citation needed ]

Death and legacy

In the Ottoman Empire, there was no established heritage system for the crown, and to prevent a possible civil war between himself and Yakub, Bayezid decided to murder his brother. Yakub, on the order of his brother Bayezid, was strangled and killed. [2] The failed rebellion and resultant civil war that their brother had earlier caused may have influenced Bayezid's decision to kill Yakub.[ citation needed ]

Bayezid brought his brother's body to Bursa and buried it in a ceremony. There is no inscription about the tomb located in the northwest of the Yakub Çelebi Mosque in Iznik. The tomb of Yakub was buried in the Hüdavendigar Tomb in Bursa. Yakub Çelebi has a mosque in Iznik, a tomb and a bath in Keles. This tomb is numbered XIV and it was built towards the end of the century. It has a square plan and there are knitted feet at the corners of the tomb and they are connected to each other with pointed arches. Legs and arches are built with a single row of cut stones and three rows of bricks. A pendant dome based on these covers the tomb.

Yakub Çelebi's Story (Història de Jacob Xalabín), which has an important place in Medieval Catalan literature, is about the adventures of Yakub Çelebi and his murder by Bayezid in the Battle of Kosovo. [3]

In the 1989 Yugoslav historical drama Battle of Kosovo , Çelebi is portrayed by Marko Baćović. [4]

Family

Yakub had two consorts:

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References

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  2. Âşık Paşazâde. Osmanoğullarının Tarihi:Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osmân. yay. haz. Prof. Dr. Kemal Yavuz, Prof Dr. M. A. Yekta Saraç. İstanbul: Gökkubbe, 2010.
  3. Anonim. Yakub Çelebi'nin Öyküsü. çev. Mehmet Sait Şener. önsöz ve notlar. Juan Carlos Bayo. İstanbul: İletişim, 2015.
  4. Full Cast & Crew of the Battle of Kosovo
  5. Several of John V's daughters and granddaughters married Ottoman princes: his daughter Maria married Murad I, two more his sons Bayezid I and Yakub, while a fourth, Irene, married Halil, Murad's half-brother. Two granddaughters, daughters of Theodore and Zampia, married a son and grandson of Bayezid I, Süleyman and Mustafa.