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Kay-Khusraw I
sultan of Rūm
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defeat by Theodore I Lascaris
- In Theodore I Lascaris
…the Seljuq sultan of Rūm, Kay-Khusraw, who had given asylum to the emperor Alexius, failed to persuade Theodore to abdicate, he invaded Theodore’s territory in the spring of 1211. Theodore, however, defeated and killed Kay-Khusraw in battle and also captured and imprisoned Alexius.
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history of Anatolia
- In Anatolia: Seljuq expansion
…a Byzantine princess, Ghiyās̄ al-Dīn Kay-Khusraw I (Kaikhosrau; 1192–96, 1205–11), seized Konya in 1205 with the aid of the Greek lord Maurozomes and the frontier Turkmens. Under this ruler and his two sons and successors, ʿIzz al-Dīn Kāʾūs I (1211–20) and ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Kay-Qubādh I (1220–37), the Anatolian Seljuqs achieved…
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