Mawsillu


Mawsillu was a Turcoman tribe active in Aq Qoyunlu confederation and Safavid Empire.

History

According to Turkish historian Tufan Gündüz and John E. Woods, they one of the three biggest tribes dominating Aq Qoyunlu along with Purnak and Bayandur tribes. Their main controlled areas were near Diyarbakr and Armenia. They supported Hamza beg and Sheykh Hasan at earliest times but later changed their allegiance to Uzun Hasan after 1451 during Aq Qoyunlu succession crisis. They acquired the city of Ruha in later in 1475 following the defeat of Uways.

Famous members

  1. Begtash beg Mawsillu — founder of the clan.
  2. # Osman
  3. # Muhammad
  4. # Amir I — Commander in Chief of Aq Qoyunlu army, governor of Shiraz
  5. ## Hasan
  6. ## Gulabi I — Governor of Erzinjan
  7. ### Qayitmaz
  8. ### Amir II — Governor of Erzinjan, Guardian of Tahmasp I
  9. ###* A daughter — married to Ruzagi family
  10. ###*# Sharafkhan Bidlisi
  11. ###* Marjumak
  12. ###* Ma'sum
  13. ###* Gulabi II
  14. ### Ibrahim — Governor of Baghdad, killed by Zulfaqar beg
  15. ###* Malik Qasim
  16. ###** Muhammadi
  17. ### Ali beg
  18. #### Zulfaqar — Captured Baghdad from Ibrahim and submitted to Ottomans, but was on the orders of Tahmasp I
  19. #### Ali — killed Zulfaqar on the orders of Tahmasp I
  20. ### Ismail
  21. ## Fulad
  22. # Sufi Khalil — Governor of Shaki and Shiraz, regent of Baysonqor
  23. ## Jamshid
  24. ## Shaykh Ali
  25. ## Ismail
  26. ## Yusuf
  27. ## Begtash
  28. ## Ya'qub
  29. # Nur 'Ali
  30. # Pir Umar
  31. # Qutb al-Din
  32. # Hamza beg
  33. ## Mihmad beg
  34. ### Tajlu Khanum — Consort of Ismail I, mother of Tahmasp I
  35. # Bakr — Governor of Astarabad
  36. ## Isa beg
  37. ### Musa beg — Governor of Azerbaijan
  38. #### Sultanum Begum — Consort of Tahmasp I, mother of Mohammad Khodabanda and Ismail II