Sehzade Bayezid

Sehzade Bayezid (1525 – September 25, 1561) is an Ottoman prince (Turkish: şehzade) as son of Suleiman the Magnificent (also known as the Lawgiver or the Magnificent), 10th Ottoman Sultan, and his legal wife Hürrem Sultan.

He is a şehzade who attempts to win the throne of the Ottoman Empire.

After the death of three of Suleiman's sons, only Bayezid and Selim are alive.

By the course of the 1550s, when Suleiman is already in his 60s, a protracted competition for the throne between Bayezid and Selim is evident.

Angered by Bayezids disobedience stemming from around the same years, Bayezid had fallen in disfavor with his father as opposed to his brother Selim (who will eventually succeed as Selim II).

After staging a rebellion, which is suppressed in 1559 by Selim (who is further aided by Suleiman and Sokollu Mehmet Pasha) he flees to the neighboring Safavid Empire, where he is wholeheartedly and lavishly received by Tahmasp I.

However, in 1561, upon the continuous insistence of Suleiman throughout the entire period of his exile, and by the means of several large payments, Tahmasp allows Bayezid to be executed by an Ottoman executioner.

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