Sayid Ahmad I

{{Short description|Khan of the Golden Horde from 1433 to 1455}} {{Infobox royalty |title = | name =Sayid Ahmad I | image = | caption = | succession =[[List of khans of the Golden Horde|Khan of the Golden Horde]] | reign1 =1427 – 1455 | predecessor1 =[[Ulugh Muhammad]] | successor1 =[[Küchük Muhammad]]

| spouse = | issue = | house =[[Borjigin]] | house-type =Dynasty | father = | mother = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date =1455 | death_place = | religion =[[Sunni Islam]] |}}

'''Sayid Ahmad I''' ([[Chagatai language|Turki]]/[[Cuman language|Kypchak]] and [[Persian language|Persian]]: سید احمد خان) was [[Khan (title)|Khan]] of the [[Golden Horde]] from 1427 or 1433<ref>Bosworth, Clifford Edmund, ''The New Islamic Dynasties: A Chronological and Genealogical Manual'', p. 253. Edinburgh University Press, 2004.</ref> until 1455. Unlike the last five of six khans, Ahmad was a younger son of [[Tokhtamysh]].

==Breakup of the Horde==

While he died before the Horde dissolved, historians believe that Sayid Ahmad was responsible for creating the conditions in the [[khanate]] which allowed it to happen.<ref>[[Sheila Paine|Paine, Sheila]]: ''The Golden Horde: From the Himalaya to the Mediterranean'', p. 80, Penguin Books, 1998.</ref>

==Genealogy== *[[Genghis Khan]] *[[Jochi]] *[[Orda Khan]] *Sartaqtay *[[Köchü]] *[[Bayan (khan)|Bayan]] *[[Sasibuqa]] *[[Ilbasan]] *[[Chimtay]] *Tuli Kwadja *[[Tokhtamysh]] *'''Sayid Ahmad'''

==References== <references/>

{{s-start}} {{s-hou|[[Borjigin|House of Qiyat (Хияад)]] (1206–1635)}} {{s-reg|}} {{s-bef|before=[[Olugh Mokhammad of Kazan|Olugh Mokhammad]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[List of Mongol Khans|Khan]] of the [[Golden Horde]]|years=1427–1455}} {{s-aft|after=[[Küchük Muhammad]]}} {{end}}

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