Fakhr al-Mulk Radwan
Fakhr al -Mulk Radwan ibn Alp - Arslan ibn Tutusch (Arabic فخر الملك رضوان بن تتش بن ألب أرسلان, DMG Fakhr al -Mulk Radwan b Tutus Alp - Arslan b, .. Well Ridwan and Rudwan; † around 1113 ) was a Seljuk ruler of Syria from 1095 to 1113. He was the son of Yaghi - Siyan, the atabeg of Antioch and the older brother of Duqaq, of Syria and Damascus had inherited from her father, Tutusch I..
Radwan revolted against his brother, the kingdom was divided, Radwan received Aleppo and set up a his seat of government. After Duqaqs death in 1104 he was followed by two weak rulers, what Radwan prompting Damascus to conquer in the same year, without embarrassment behind his capital there. At his death, his underage son Alp Arslan - al - Achras succeeded to the throne.
When his father-in Yaghi Siyan - in the years 1097 and 1098 besieged by the First Crusade (see Siege of Antioch ), called this Radwan to help the subject to the Christians in a Battle of Harim outside the city on February 9, 1098. The second experiment together with Kerbogha and Duqaq to rid the city failed. When the Muslim army depwoyed before the city on June 5, 1098, she was already taken, and the subsequent siege of Christians ended with a battle on 28 June, in the subject the Muslims again.
1101 to Ridwan allied with Kılıç Arslan I and Danishmend Ghazi against the Crusaders and contributed to the victories against the armies of the Crusade of 1101 at Mersivan and Heraclea in.
After Kılıç Arslan I. 1107 had conquered Mosul to Ridwan allied with the Großseldschuken Muhammad I. Kılıç Arslan I. Tapar and defeated in battle.
Swell
- Kenneth Setton (ed.): A History of the Crusades, vol. I. University of Pennsylvania Press; 1958 ( online version).
- H.A.R. Gibb (translator ): The Damascus Chronicle of the Crusades: Extracted and Translated from the Chronicle of Ibn al - Qalanisi. London 1932, reprint Dover, 2002.
- Ruler
- Person ( Crusades )
- Seljuk
- Born in the 11th century
- Died in the 12th century
- Man