Sati Beg

Al-sultana al-radila Sati Beg Khan Khallad Allah Mulkaha (fl. 1316-1345) was a claimant to the throne of the Ilkhanate during the fragmentation of Persia in the mid-14th century. She was the uterine sister of the Ilkhan Abu Sa'id.

Biography

Upon her brother's accession in 1316, Sati Beg was betrothed to the amir Coban, one of the most powerful individuals in the Ilkhanid court. They were wed in 1319; their marriage produced a son, Surgan. When Coban and Abu Sa'id came into conflict in 1327, Sati Beg was returned to the Ilkhan. Coban was executed that same year at Abu Sa'id's insistence; Sati Beg and Surgan were spared.

Following Abu Sa'id's death in 1335, the Ilkhanate began to disintegrate. By 1336, Sati Beg and Surgan had taken the side of the founder of the Jalayirid dynasty, Hasan Buzurg. After the latter seized control of western Persia, Surgan was made governor of Karabakh (in modern Azerbaijan), where he and his mother moved to. However, when a grandson of Coban, Hasan Kucek, defeated Hasan Buzurg in July 1338, Sati Beg and Surgan defected to his camp. Taking advantage of her family ties, Hasan Kucek raised her to the Ilkhanid throne in July or August of that year. Her nominal authority did not extend beyond the Chobanid domains of northwestern Persia.