Yusuf Çelebi

Yusuf Çelebi (Greek: Δημήτριος; 1392 – 1429)[1] was an Ottoman prince and the son of Sultan Bayezid I who did not play an active role in the Ottoman Interregnum[2]. In Byzantine sources and prosopographical records, his name and title are preserved as Tzalapès kyr Dēmētrios (Greek: Τζαλαπὴς κὺρ Δημήτριος)[3][4].

He arrived in Constantinople after 1402. According to Laonikos Chalkokondyles, he came of his own accord, independently of the princely hostages handed over to Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos by Süleyman Çelebi[5], probably to escape from the political crisis taking place during the civil war. Nevertheless, the Byzantine historian Doukas[6] refers to his status as a hostage at the Byzantine court, where he was educated in a Byzantine school[7]. During this period, he befriended the future emperor John VIII Palaiologos, with whom he became very close friends[8]. He later converted to Christianity, taking the name "Dēmētrios"[9][10]. He died of natural causes in 1429[11][12][13].

Yusuf was betrothed to Theodora, daughter of Despot Theodore I Palaiologos of the Despotate of the Morea, marking the only recorded occurrence of a male Ottoman dynast being integrated into the Byzantine imperial family through marriage.[14] His upbringing in Constantinople is also cited as a prominent example of an Ottoman prince receiving a Byzantine education while retaining his native Turkish language.[15]

References

  1. ↑ Alderson, A.D., The Structure of the Ottoman Dynasty, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1955, table XXV.
  2. ↑ Kastritsis, Dimitris J., The Sons of Bayezid: Empire Building and Representation in the Ottoman Civil War of 1402–1413, Brill, Leiden, 2007, p. 41.
  3. ↑ Trapp, Erich et al., Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, 1976–1996, entry n° 9082.
  4. ↑ Shukurov, Rustam, The Byzantine Turks 1204–1453, Brill, Leiden, 2016, p. 370.
  5. ↑ Chalkokondyles, Laonikos, Laonici Chalcocondylae Historiarum demonstrationes, ed. E. Darkó, 2 vols, Budapest, 1922–27, 1:167.15–17.
  6. ↑ Ducas, Istoria turco-bizantină (1341–1462), ed. Vasile Grecu, Bucharest, 1958, 21.4, p. 143.
  7. ↑ Shukurov, Rustam, The Byzantine Turks 1204–1453, Brill, Leiden, 2016, p. 273.
  8. ↑ Shukurov, Rustam, The Byzantine Turks 1204–1453, Brill, Leiden, 2016, p. 274.
  9. ↑ Kastritsis, Dimitris J., The Sons of Bayezid, Brill, 2007, p. 41.
  10. ↑ Shukurov, Rustam, The Byzantine Turks 1204–1453, Brill, Leiden, 2016, p. 370.
  11. ↑ Alderson, A.D., The Structure of the Ottoman Dynasty, Oxford, 1955, table XXV.
  12. ↑ Kastritsis, Dimitris J., The Sons of Bayezid, Brill, 2007, p. 41.
  13. ↑ Shukurov, Rustam, The Byzantine Turks 1204–1453, Brill, Leiden, 2016, p. 372.
  14. ↑ Sakaoğlu, Necdet, Bu mülkün kadın sultanları, 2008, p. 74.
  15. ↑ Shukurov, Rustam, The Byzantine Turks 1204–1453, Brill, Leiden, 2016, pp. 274–275.

Further reading

  • Kastritsis, Dimitris J., The Sons of Bayezid: Empire Building and Representation in the Ottoman Civil War of 1402–1413, Brill, Leiden, 2007.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet, Bu mülkün kadın sultanları, Oğlak Yayıncılık, 2008.
  • Shukurov, Rustam, The Byzantine Turks 1204–1453, Brill, Leiden, 2016.
  • Trapp, Erich et al., Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, 1976–1996, entry n° 9082.
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