There is little to none information of the education background of the Ottoman sultan. What is eminent is that he was well conversant with the fatwas that is the Islamic law. The presumption is that he was well educated in Islamic law. Despite the absence of the information regarding this sultan he was well aware of the need to follow the law and lead deligently those who were under him.
Bayezd’s ascension to the throne was after the Battle of Kosovo whereby his father Murad I had been killed by the nobleman of Serbia called Milos Obilic in the 28th and 29th day of June. He later married Serbia’s Prince Lazar’s daughter called Princess Olivera Despina when he had become the Sultan. This was one year after the ascending to the throne. Owing to the death of prince Lazar Bayezid’s recognition of the Serbian leader was Stefan Lazarevic who was the son of Prince Lazar.
Bayezid I conducted the Dunabian campaign which saw battles like the Battle of Rovine whereby Bayezid had, in 1394 crossed the Danube River and attacked Wallachia which was under the rule of Mircea the Elder at that time. Despite their superiority, the ottoman was subdued in this quest. This unpredicted turn of events from the Wallachian had prevented Bayezid from conquering the country.
Bayezid also led the crusade of Nicopolis whereupon he fought in the Battle of Nicopolis. This was through a siege in the Byzantines Empire’s capital Constantinople. Bayezid was victorious in this war even after John V Palaeologus’s had put in place a revolt to defeat him. Even after the Christian allies arose against him in the Battle of Nicopolis, under the leadership of Sigismund who was the Holy Roman Empire who was the then King of Hungary, Bayezid was able to cap them and was victorious in the war. This was followed by the building of Ulu Camii Bursa by Bayezid as a sign to celebrate the victory he got from the quest.
Bayezid I was later defeated by Timur and it was always the popular subject among the western composers, writers and also painters. This was after the war with Timur in 1400, when central Asia was being led by this agile warlord who brought down Bayezid’s I reign in the Islamic world. Timur had a successful campaigned in raising the Turkic beyliks who had been Ottomans. They rose against Bayezid who had been the most powerful Islam leader during that time in history. This was in the battle of Ankara which was fought on 29th July 1402. This was the time which Bayezid was captured and it was a fateful defeat for the Ottoman Sultan.
It is claimed that Bayezid was harshly treated by Timurids. Nevertheless other writers claim that he was treated well up until his death. It is stipulated that even Timur himself mourned him when he died. During the time of the war,four sons of Bayezid are claimed to have escaped the ordeal. Their name is Suleyman Celebi, Isa Celebi, Mehmed Celebi and Musa Celebi. These four sons later started a civil war whioch was later called the Ottoman Interregnum. Mehmed I later succeeded Bayezid I and it prompted the emergence of another two revolts by the brother called Mustafe celebi.
These revolts was however not successful in this consideration. In 1648 there appeared the play Le Gran Tamerlan et Bejezet by Jean Magnon, and in 1725 Handel's Tamerlano was first performed in London; Vivaldi's version of the story, Bajazet, was written in 1735. Magnon had given Bayezid an intriguing wife and daughter; the Handel and Vivaldi renditions included, as well as Tamerlane and Bayezid and his daughter, a prince of Byzantium and a princess of Trebizond (Trabzon) in a passionate and incredible love story. A cycle of paintings in Schloss Eggenberg, near Graz in Austria, translated the theme to a different medium; this was completed in the 1670s shortly before the Ottoman army attacked the Habsburgs in central Europe. Some wrters portends that he committed suicide by taking the poison concealed in his ring. Stanisław Chlebowski, Bayezid prisoned by Timur, 1878.
Bayezid was an Ottoman Sultan who laid an 8 year long blockade on Constantinople in 1391. In 1393, he had also blocked Tirnova in Bulgaria, using his forces. Also in 1394 he was able to conquer Greece. In 1396 Bayezid was up against the Hungarian-Ventian crusade whereupon he defeated Nicopolis massively.
Bayezid was born in a Muslim family whereupon he practiced Islamic law during his reign. During his quest against fellow Muslims, he was using fatwa which are the Islamic principles.
Bayezid I is claimed to have been the bravest leader of an Islamic army during his reign, It is worth noting that he built the strongest Islamic and Turkish base for his rule. Bayezid was a busy Sultan whose interest was mainly based on the need to have an expanded territory for the Turkish empire.
Physical Characteristics: There is no concrete information with regard to the physique of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I. but it is believed that his height was above average and his body was athletic. He had dark brown eyes and his had brown hair which was thick in complexion.
Bayezid first married Devlet Shah Khatun, daughter of the prince of Kermian, who brought him in dowry Kutaiah and its dependencies. Two years before his accession he also married a daughter of the emperor John Palaeologus. One of Bayezid's sons, Mustafa Celebi, was captured with him and held captive in Samarkand until 1405.
Four of Bayezid's sons, specifically Süleyman Celebi, İsa Celebi, Mehmed Celebi, and Musa Celebi, however, escaped from the battlefield and later started a civil war for the Ottoman throne known as the Ottoman Interregnum. After Mehmed's victory, his coronation as Mehmed I, and the death of all four but Mehmed, Bayezid's other son Mustafa Çelebi emerged from hiding and began two failed rebellions against his brother Mehmed and, after Mehmed's death, his nephew Murat II.