# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bayezid-i
# Generated: 2026-09-01T08:44:07.807Z

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name: "Bayezid I"
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description: "The Ottoman sultan who crushed a European crusade, swallowed Anatolia whole, and twice laid siege to Constantinople — only to meet Timur on the field at Ankara, lose everything in an afternoon, and die in a conqueror's cage."
tagline: "Fourth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1389–1402)"
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birthDate: "1354-03-08"
deathDate: "1403-03-08"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Bayezid I became sultan in 1389 and moved fast enough to earn the nickname "Thunderbolt." He claimed the title Sultan-i Rûm — sultan of Rome — and set his sights on Constantinople, besieging it without success in 1394. Two years later he shattered a crusader army at Nicopolis in what is now Bulgaria, the kind of victory that makes mapmakers nervous. He spent the next years annexing or vassalizing every beylik in Anatolia, consolidating an empire that had been a patchwork. In 1402 he returned to Constantinople and the siege looked promising this time — until Timur, the Turco-Mongol conqueror, invaded from the east. Bayezid withdrew to meet him and was defeated and captured at the Battle of Ankara. He died in Timur's custody in March 1403, and his sons tore the empire into civil war.