Kayqubad III ( or ʿAlāʾ ad-Dīn Kayqubād bin Farāmurz; ) was briefly sultan of the Sultanate of Rum between the years of 1298 and 1302. He was a nephew of the deposed Mesud II and had strong support among the Seljuk Turks. As sultan he was a vassal of the Ilkhanate and exercised no real power.
Reign
He first appears
circa 1283 as a pretender to the Seljuk throne. He was recognized by the Turkish
Karamanids, but he was defeated by
vizier Fakhr al-Din Ali and
Kaykhusraw III and sought refuge in Cilician Armenia.
[Claude Cahen, Pre-Ottoman Turkey: a general survey of the material and spiritual culture and history, trans. J. Jones-Williams, (New York: Taplinger, 1968) p. 294] Nothing is known of his movements again until 1298, when he was appointed to the sultanate by the
Ilkhanate Mahmud Ghazan upon the downfall of
Mesud II. He purged the Seljuq administration of his predecessor’s men with extreme violence and became deeply unpopular; as a result when he visited the Ilkhan in 1302, he was executed and replaced with his predecessor
Mesud II in order to keep the peace.
[Cahen, Pre-Ottoman Turkey, pp. 300f]
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