Zülfikár bég, egy hódoltsági határbég-dinasztia harmadik nemzedéke történetéhez = Zülfikar Bey, to the history of the third generation of a frontier clan governing Ottoman Hungary

Fóti, Miklós (2024) Zülfikár bég, egy hódoltsági határbég-dinasztia harmadik nemzedéke történetéhez = Zülfikar Bey, to the history of the third generation of a frontier clan governing Ottoman Hungary. TÖRTÉNELMI SZEMLE, 66 (4). pp. 525-541. ISSN 0040-9634

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Abstract

We know well the key figures of the local Ottoman elite in Hungary, who took their fortune after the fall of Buda and advanced their career in the subsequent decades in the established vilayet. They were the engine of the expansion of the Habsburg–Ottoman confines. Despite the rich archontological data on this first generation of predatory beys of the frontier–including their sons–the fate of their third generation is overwhelmingly unknown. We do not know even now that our study’s leading character, Zülfikar Bey, was Mahmud Bey’s son, and grandson of Bali, the second pasha of Buda. Despite his prominent family background, he was just an average governor of Ottoman sancaks. This study dismantles his family background and follows his military career step-by-step between 1564 and 1595. Then–after a decade-long gap–at the beginning of the next century continues the story of a Zülfikar bey between 1606 and 1618, until he reaches the rank of the pasha of Temesvár. We examine and argue whether these two persons could be the same, that is the grandson of Bali Pasha, or not. Zülfikar’s life story will be followed by his appointments to various Hungarian and Serbian sancaks and by his tezkeres showing his increasing fiefdoms and military merits, collected from the records of timar-bestowal registers (ruznamçe defteris).

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