FriendlyRiotsOfAndronikosIVPalaiologosAn dSavdjiTshelebi

Day 3,136, 17:09 • Published in Serbia South Africa • by cirujanoo

(historical hypothesis series)

Fathers and Sons: Co-uprising of Andronicos IV Palaiologos and
Savdji Tschelebi (1373)



The cooperation between the Byzantine prince Andronicos IV Palaiologos and
the Ottoman prince Savcı Tschelebi against their fathers for a coup d’état is one of the most interesting historical events in the Ottoman – Byzantine relations. Data of the Venetian, Byzantine and Ottoman chronicles of 14th, 15th and 16th centuries which provide evidence about this event are very fragmentary and dispersed. In modern studies of history, little attention is generally paid to the question of how this Ottoman-Byzantine co-uprising happened. In this paper, by comparing the sources above, we discussed that the prince Andronicos IV was supported not only by prince Savcı, son of Sultan Murad, but also by an unknown prince in his disobedience against his father and the Sultan, and the Turkish elements, who had performed military campaigns in Thrace independently from the Ottoman administration.



Byzantium Prince Andronikos IV Palaeologus and Ottoman Prince Savdji Tschelebi started riots to their fathers in 1373 and continuing for more than ten years of that mutual civil war, the Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Empire. These two prince were participated in a joint rebellions against both of their fathers, but they were defeated by their fathers and they were blinded.

The two prince were first companionship of enemy nations, and in my estimation they would be able a hope of futuristic peace.

I believe in peace between of different cultures although how much there could be hostility. The only thing we have to be tolerant.