Kılıç Arslan II

Izz AD-DIN Kılıç Arslan II († 1192) is a Sultan seldjoukide of Rum. It succeeds his father Mas' ud I {{er}} in 1156.

As Arnold de Lübeck tells it to us in his Chronica Slavorum , it is present at the meeting between Henri the Lion and Kılıç Arslan at the time of a pilgrimage in Jerusalem in 1172. When they meet close to Tarse, the sultan kisses the German duke recalling him that they are cousins ( amplexans and deosculans eum, dicens, eum consanguineum suum ess ). When the duke asked him for details on this relationship, Kılıç Arslan answered him that “a noble lady of the ground of German married a king of Russia which have a girl of it; the girl of this girl arrived on our ground and I go down from it. ” The king of Russia in question could be Sviatoslav II off Kiev.

In 1159, Kılıç Arslan attacks the Byzantine emperor Manuel I {{er}} Comnène whereas it passes close to Iconium (Konya, the capital of Rum) whereas Manuel returns from negotiations with Nur AD-DIN in Syria. In 1161, the nephew of Handbook Jean Contostephanus demolishes Kılıç Arslan and the sultan must show his tender with Constantinople. In 1173, maintaining in peace with the Byzantines, it is combined in Nur AD-DIN against Mosul.

The peace treaty with the Byzantines lasts until in 1175, when Kılıç Arslan refuses to return to Manuel the territory conquered on the Danishmends. The two parts prepared for a new war for some time. Kılıç Arslan tries to negotiate, but Manuel invades its territory in 1176, in the intention to capture Iconium itself. Kılıç Arslan succeeds in attracting Manuel in a valley close to Myriokephalon, and although the forces of Handbook are not completely destroyed, the sultan forced the emperor to dismantle his fortifications along the border.

In 1180, the sultan benefitted from instability in the Byzantine Empire after death of Handbook to make sure of the control of the majority of the southernmost coasts of the Anatolia, and is combined the same year with Saladin, the successor of Nur AD-DIN. In 1185, it makes peace with the emperor Isaac II Angel, but the following year, it transmits the capacity to its nine sons, which immediately fought the ones against the others for the throne. In spite of alliance with Saladin, it is unable to stop the Third crusade, but the remainders of the German army was in any event destroyed after the death of Frederic Barberousse.

Kılıç Arslan dies in 1192. Kay Khüsraw I {{er}} succeeds to him, although its others wire continunt to be fought for the control of the other parts of the sultanate.

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