Dawlat Berdi Explained

Dawlat Berdi
Persian: {{script|Arab|دولت بردی
Succession:Khan of the Golden Horde
(1st reign)
Reign1:1419 – 1421
Predecessor1:Hajji Muhammad Khan ibn Oghlan Ali
Successor1:Barak Khan
Succession2:Khan of the Golden Horde
(2nd reign)
Reign2:1428 – 1432
Predecessor2:Barak Khan
Successor2:Sayid Ahmad I
House:Borjigin
House-Type:Dynasty
Father:Jabbar Berdi
Birth Date:unknown date
Birth Place:Golden Horde
Death Date:1432
Religion:Sunni Islam

Dawlat Berdi (Turki/Kypchak and Persian: {{Script|Arab|دولت بردی; died 1432), also known as Devlet Berdi, was Khan of the Golden Horde who reigned from 1419 to 1421, and again from 1428 to his death in 1432. He was the son of Jabbar Berdi and a descendant of Berke Khan.

Life

His first reign was brief, lasting from 1419 to 1421, when he and his rival Ulugh Muhammad were defeated by Baraq.[1] After Baraq's assassination in 1427, Dawlat established himself in Crimea. Ulugh Muhammad attempted an invasion of his territory in 1430, but was unable to defeat Berdi and retreated following the death of Vytautas, his main supporter.

Due to the efforts of Hacı I Giray Dawlat was never able to consolidate control over Crimea[2] and was assassinated in 1432. His son, Äxmät, proved unable to resist the combined forces of Ulugh Muhammad and the Crimean Tatars and was defeated the following year, leading to the creation of the Crimean Khanate.[3]

An unnamed daughter may have become the wife of John IV of Trebizond.

Genealogy

See also

References

  1. Bosworth, Clifford Edmund, The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual, p. 253. Edinburgh University Press, 2004.
  2. Hostler, Charles Warren: The Turks of Central Asia, p. 30. Praeger Publishers, 1993.
  3. Hostler, Charles Warren: The Turks of Central Asia, p. 33. Praeger Publishers, 1993.