Qasim Khan

{{Short description|Khan of Qasim from 1452 to 1469}} {{otherpeople}} {{Refimprove|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox royalty |title = | name = Qasim Khan | image = | caption = | succession =[[List of Qasim Khans|Khan of the Tatar Qasim Khanate]] | reign1 =1452 – 1469 | predecessor1 = ''None'' | successor1 =[[Daniyal ibn Qasim]] | reign2 = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | reign3 = | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | spouse = | issue = | house = | house-type = | father =[[Ulugh Muhammad]] | mother = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date =1469 | death_place = | religion = |}}

'''Qasím Khan''' ([[Volga Türki]] and [[Persian language|Persian]]: قاسم خان; also known as ''Qasim of Kasimov''; died 1469) was the first [[Khan (title)|khan]] of the [[Tatars|Tatar]] [[Qasim Khanate]], from 1452<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XjxyBgAAQBAJ&q=Qasim+Khan+1452&pg=PA56|title=Atlas of Islamic History|last1=Sluglett|first1=Peter|last2=Currie|first2=Andrew|date=2015-01-30|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317588979|pages=56|language=en}}</ref> until his death in 1469. He was the son of the [[Kazan]] khan [[Oluğ Möxämmäd]].

==Life==

He participated in the battles of [[Battle of Belyov|Belyov]] in 1437, and of [[Battle of Suzdal|Suzdal]] in 1445. After the battle of Suzdal, he and his brother Yaqub were sent to [[Moscow]] to control the results of the treaty. He stayed at the palace of [[Vasily II of Moscow]] to serve him; when his father died in 1445, the throne of [[Kazan]] went to his elder brother [[Mäxmüd]], which may have something to do with his decision to enter Russian service.

In 1449, at the Pakhra River near Moscow, he defeated the troops of [[Sayid Ahmad I]], the khan of the [[Great Horde]], that came to conquer [[Grand Duchy of Moscow|Muscovy]].

In 1447–1453, he supported Vasily in his struggle against [[Dmitry Shemyaka]]. In 1452, Vasily II granted him a principality in [[Principality of Ryazan|Ryazan]], in the territory formerly belonging to [[Mishar Yurt]], as a hereditary estate, and [[Kasimov]] city. Those lands were designated the [[Qasim Khanate]].

During the [[Russo-Kazan Wars|1467–1469 war]], the Russians attempted to make him the khan of Kazan. In 1469, he was succeeded by his son Daniyal.

== References== {{Reflist}}

==Sources== *Henry Hoyle Howorth, History of the Mongols, 1880, Part 2, pp 429–230

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