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The Jāndār Oghullarï or Isfandiyār (Isfendiyār) Oghullarï

691–866/1292–1462

The Black Sea coastland

691/1292

(?) Yaman (b.) Jāndār, Shams al-Dīn

⊘ c. 708/c. 1308

Sulaymān I b. Yaman, Shujā‘ al-Dīn

c. 740/c. 1340

Ibrāhīm b. Sulaymān, Ghiyāth al-Dīn

⊘ 746/1345

‘Ādil b. Ya‘qūb b. Yaman

⊘ c. 762/c. 1361

Bāyazīd Kötörüm b. ‘Ādil, Jalāl al-Dīn, after 786/1384 ruler in Sinop

⊘ 786/1384

Sulaymān II Shāh b. Bāyazīd, ruler in Kastamonu

787/1385

Isfandiyār (Isfendiyār) b. Bāyazīd, Mubāriz al-Dīn, ruler in Sinop, first reign

795/1393

Ottoman annexation

⊘ 805/1402

Isfandiyār, ruler in Kastamonu, Sinop and Samsun, second reign

⊘ 843/1440

Ibrāhīm b. Isfandiyār, Tāj al-Dīn

⊘ 847/1443

Ismā‘il b. Ibrāhīm, Kamāl al-Dīn

⊘ 865–6/1461–2

Qïzïl Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm

866/1462

Ottoman annexation

The founder of this line of beys, Shams al-Dīn (?) Yaman b. Jāndār, seized power in Kastamonu and held it under the aegis of the Il Khānids, establishing an extensive principality along the Black Sea coastland and in its hinterland, the classical Paphlagonia. After the mid-fourteenth century, the Jāndār Oghullarï threw off Il Khānid suzerainty and extended to Sinop, but lost their territories to the Ottoman sultan Bāyazīd I. The dynasty at this point also takes its additional name of Isfandiyār (Isfendiyār) Oghullarï from one of the beys of the period, Isfandiyār (and in the sixteenth century, the family were to claim the name also of Qïzïl Aḥmadlï). Restored by Tīmūr, the principality had nevertheless gradually to cede territory to the Ottomans, and was finally annexed by Muḥammad II. Under subsequent sultans, the Jāndār family were nevertheless to enjoy much favour and power in the state.

Khalīl Ed’hem, 306–7; Zambaur, 149; Bosworth–Merçil–İpşirli, 290–3.

EI2 ‘Ḳasṭamūnī’ (C. J. Heywood), ‘Isfendiyār Oghlu’ (J. H. Mordtmann*).

İ. H. Uzunçarşılı, Anadolu beylikleri, 121–47.

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