Pirbudag (1403/1404October 1418, reigned 1411October 1414) was the first ruler of

Qara Qoyunlu The Qara Qoyunlu or Kara Koyunlu (, ; ), also known as the Black Sheep Turkomans, were a culturally Persianate, Muslim Turkoman "Kara Koyunlu, also spelled Qara Qoyunlu, Turkish Karakoyunlular, English Black Sheep, Turkmen tribal federation tha ...

as an independent sultanate.

Life

Pirbudag was the eldest son of

Qara Yusuf ''Abu Nasr'' Qara Yusuf ibn Mohammad Barani ( 1356 – 1420) was the ruler of the Qara Qoyunlu dynasty (or "Black Sheep Turkomans") from 1388 to 1420, although his reign was interrupted by Tamerlane's invasion (1400–1405). He was the son of ...

, born around 1403 during his father's captivity, together with

Ahmad Jalayir Sultan Ahmad (سلطان احمد جلایر) was the ruler of the Jalayirid Sultanate (ruled 1382–1410), he was son to the most accomplished ruler of the sultanate, Shaykh Uways Jalayir. Early in his reign, he was involved in conflicts with h ...

, in

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. In prison the two leaders renewed their friendship, making an agreement that Jalayir should keep Baghdad while Qara Yusuf would have

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Reign

After the death of Ahmad Jalayir, Pirbudag was crowned sultan by his father Qara Yusuf in 1411 at the age of eight or nine.{{Cite book, title=History of Azerbaijan, date=2007–2008, publisher=Elm, others=A.A. Bakıxanov adına Tarix İnstitutu., isbn=9789952448368, location=Bakı, pages=81, language=Azerbaijani, oclc=473170399 He is recorded to have been the commander of raiding party in

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pursuing

Qara Osman Uthman Beg or Osman Beg (Ajami Turkic and ; 1356 – 1435) was a late 14th and early 15th-century leader of the Turkoman tribal federation of Aq Qoyunlu in what is now eastern Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan and Iraq. Name He was born Baha-ud-Din Uth ...

. He died unexpectedly in October 1418.

References

1418 deaths 1400s births 15th-century Qara Qoyunlu rulers