Nationality Persia Died 1295 Name Padishah Khatun | Occupation sovereign Other names Padishah Khatun | |
Known for poet, murdered her step-brother and rival | ||
Safwat al-Din Khatun (died 1295), otherwise known as Padishah Khatun, was the ruler of Kirman in Persia from 1291 until 1295 as a member of the Mongol vassal Kutlugh-Khanid dynasty in Persia.
Life
She was born in the Kirman, the Persian vassal dynasty of the Mongols, as the daughter of Qutb al-Din (d. 1257) and Kutlugh Turkan of Kirman.
Her first spouse was Abaka Khan. The marriage was arranged by her mother to secure Mongolian support for her rule. Her spouse inherited rule of Persia, but died soon after, in 1282. She then married her former stepson, Gaykhatu.
In 1291, when Gaykhatu, in turn, inherited rule of Persia, she demanded to be given the rule of the Persian vassal monarchy of Kirman as her personal fief, which her spouse agreed.
Padishah`s half-brother Suyurghatamish had ruled Kirman after Padishah`s mother; she had him imprisoned after she took power, and when he tried to escape, she had him murdered.
Padishah earned mention in the travel diary of Venetian traveler, Marco Polo, a contemporary of Padishah. He described her as “an ambitious and clever woman, who put her own brother Siyurgutmish to death as a rival.”
She had both silver and gold coins struck in her name.
When her husband, Gaykhatu, died in 1295, Padishah was killed by factions allied with her half-brother. The Mongolian princess Khurdudjin, the widow of Suyurghatamish, demanded of Gaykhatu's successor, Baydu, demanded that Padishah be executed, to which he agreed. Khurdudjin then succeeded Padishah as sovereign queen of Kirman.