Pope Alexander VI

البابا إسكندر السادس

Alexander VI, pope after Innocent VIII; al-Salabi relays that Prince Cem passed to him on Innocent's death and was killed soon after — the chronicles, as the book reports, accusing Bayezid II of ridding himself of his brother 1. The same pope, at Venice's request, raised a league of France and Spain against the Ottomans after Lepanto fell 2.

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The Gunpowder Empires
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Anatolia
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Alexander VI, pope after Innocent VIII, in the reign of Bayezid II 1.

Cem's death and the league

Al-Salabi relays that Prince Cem passed to Alexander's custody on Innocent's death and was killed soon after — the chronicles, as the book reports rather than asserts, accusing Bayezid II of ridding himself of his brother 1. At Venice's request Alexander VI raised a league of France and Spain against the Ottomans after Lepanto fell 2.

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Selim I's accession, 918/1512· The Lepanto victory over Venice (1499-1500)· Prince Ahmad, son of Bayezid II· Pope Innocent VIII· Prince Cem (Jem Sultan)· Koca Davud Pasha· السلطان محمد الفاتح· السلطان الأشرف قايتباي

Sources

  1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 164
  2. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 173
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Selim I's accession, 918/1512

Al-Salabi dates Bayezid II's cession of the sultanate to his son Selim I at 18 Safar 918 / 25 April 1512; Ibn al-Imad adds that Selim contested the ailing father for the throne, that he yielded it, then died near Guria.