Çandarlı Ali Pasha

جاندرلي علي باشا

18 December 1406 CE · 809 AH

Ottoman grand vizier (died 1406), the eldest son of Çandarlı Kara Halil Hayreddin Pasha, the first grand vizier of the Ottoman state. Medrese-trained and of the ilmiye class, he rose from kadı to kazasker and succeeded his father in 1387, serving Murad I and then Bayezid I for the whole of his reign; he led the Bulgarian campaign of 1388 and fought at Kosovo and Nicopolis. After Bayezid's capture at Ankara in 1402 he preserved Süleyman Çelebi's throne in Rumelia and brokered the Treaty of Gallipoli in 1403. He died at Ankara in 1406 and was buried beside his father at Iznik.