Tutush I
Abu Sa'id Taj ad - Dawla Tutusch I ( † 1095 ) was the Seljuk ruler ( Emir, later Sultan ) of Damascus from 1079 to 1095 as the successor of al - Khwarizmi Abaaq. He was the brother of the ruler Malik Shah großseldschukischen I (reigned 1072-1092 ).
Tutusch took Syria and Palestine to the Fatimids and competing Turkmen rulers, the major cities of Damascus, Jerusalem and Acre from. In Jerusalem he set a Ortoq as governor. 1086 was added in Aleppo. Tutusch namely the ruler of Aleppo against the ( rebel ) Seldschukenprinzen Suleiman ibn Kutulmisch († 1086 ) was called in to help. Tutusch won, but the ambitions of his brother Malik Shah probably went too far, so he started him compliant rulers of Mosul, Aleppo and Antioch, Tutusch drove back.
But after the death of Malik Shah in November 1092 threatened the empire to crumble and Tutusch wanted to recapture his old territory. He was, however, by his nephew, the new Sultan Berk - Yaruq (r. 1092/4-1105 ) fought. First Tutusch 1094 Aleppo could, Harran and Edessa recover and can then proclaim in Baghdad to the Sultan (instead Berk - Yaruqs ) (after a revolt Aq Sonqors who defected to Berk - Yaruq ). But with his further advance, he was defeated and killed on February 26, 1095 in a battle near Rayy.
Tutusch inherited his son Radwan of Aleppo and his son Duqaq Damascus. But this did not stop the brothers from having to fight each other to dominate the whole area. The Fatimids conquered back the south of Palestine. Then you also marketed in 1098 the sons of Ortoqs that Ortoqiden from Jerusalem. The incessant infighting among the Seldschukenprinzen beneficiary then 1098/9 the First Crusade.