Yakub Çelebi (, – 28 June 1389) was an Ottoman

prince A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The ...

and the son of

Murad I Murad I (; ), nicknamed ''Hüdavendigâr'' (from – meaning "Head of state, sovereign" in this context; 29 June 1326 – 15 June 1389) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1362 to 1389. He was the son of Orhan Gazi and Nilüfer Hatun. Mura ...

Biography

He was educated from a young age and was accustomed to administrative and military education. He made a name for himself with his courage, heroism and benevolence and had been with his father

in all his wars. Both he and his half-brother

Bayezid I Bayezid I (; ), also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt (; ; – 8 March 1403), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389 to 1402. He adopted the title of ''Sultan-i Rûm'', ''Rûm'' being the Arabic name for the Eastern Roman Empire. In 139 ...

fought well in the

Battle of Kosovo The Battle of Kosovo took place on 15 June 1389 between an army led by the Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović and an invading army of the Ottoman Empire under the command of Sultan Murad I. It was one of the largest battles of the Late Middl ...

, the last expedition of their father Murad I. During the battle, Yakub Çelebi led the left flank of the army and was subjected to the intense attack by Serbian prince Lazar. With the Serbian army in a bad position, Yakub pursued them. While this was happening, his father,

, was assassinated by a Serbian soldier, variously identified as the knight

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. The throne was given to Bayezid with the agreement of the pashas.

Death and legacy

In the Ottoman Empire, there was no established heritage system for the crown, and to prevent a possible civil war between himself and Yakub, Bayezid decided to murder his brother. Yakub, on the order of his brother Bayezid, was strangled and killed. The failed rebellion and resultant civil war that their brother had earlier caused may have influenced Bayezid's decision to kill Yakub. Bayezid brought his brother's body to

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and buried it in a ceremony. There is no inscription about the tomb located in the northwest of the Yakub Çelebi Mosque in Iznik. The tomb of Yakub was buried in the Hüdavendigar Tomb in

. Yakub Çelebi has a

mosque A mosque ( ), also called a masjid ( ), is a place of worship for Muslims. The term usually refers to a covered building, but can be any place where Salah, Islamic prayers are performed; such as an outdoor courtyard. Originally, mosques were si ...

in Iznik, a tomb and a

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in Keles. This tomb is numbered XIV and it was built towards the end of the century. It has a square plan and there are knitted feet at the corners of the tomb and they are connected to each other with pointed arches. Legs and arches are built with a single row of cut stones and three rows of bricks. A pendant dome based on these covers the tomb. Yakub Çelebi's Story (''Història de Jacob Xalabín''), which has an important place in Medieval Catalan literature, is about the adventures of Yakub Çelebi and his murder by Bayezid in the Battle of Kosovo. In the 1989 Yugoslav historical drama ''

'', Çelebi is portrayed by Marko Baćović.

Family

Yakub had two consorts: * ''Fülane'' Hatun, daughter of Konstantin of Kostendil. Two of her sisters married Yakub's father Murad I and his half-brother Bayezid I. * Paleologa princess, daughter of the Byzantine emperor

John V John V may refer to: * Patriarch John V of Alexandria or John the Merciful (died by 620), Patriarch of Alexandria from 606 to 616 * John V of Constantinople, Patriarch from 669 to 675 * Pope John V (685–686), Pope from 685 to his death in 686 ...

and his wife

Helena Kantakouzene Helena Kantakouzene (; 1333 – 10 December 1396) was the Empress consort of John V Palaiologos of the Byzantine Empire. She served as Regent during the absence of her son Manuel II in 1393. Life She was a daughter of John VI Kantakouzenos a ...

. She married Yakub in 1386.Several of

's daughters and granddaughters married Ottoman princes: his daughter Maria married

, two more his sons

and Yakub, while a fourth, Irene, married Halil, Murad's half-brother. Two granddaughters, daughters of Theodore and Zampia, married a son and grandson of Bayezid I, Süleyman and Mustafa.

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