Hayder Khan Girai, Hayder () (lived ?–1487, reigned 1456?, 1475) was either once or twice briefly a
Khan of Crimea
This is a list of khans of the Crimean Khanate, a state which existed in present-day southern Ukraine from 1441 until 1783. Crimean Tatars, although not a part of the Ukrainian ethnos, are deeply interconnected, having ruled a large part of ...
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He was one of the sons of the dynasty's founder
Hacı I Giray (c. 1441–1466). It is reported that in 1456 he rebelled against his father and briefly occupied the throne, but this is not certain.
After his father's death, for twelve years (1466–1478), the throne alternated between Hayder's brothers
Nur Devlet and
Meñli I Giray. During one of Mengli's reigns Hayder was held in honorable confinement at the Genoese fortress of
Sudak.
In March 1475 the nobles replaced Mengli with Hayder. He and the Shirin Bey Eminek raided the Lithuanian border. In May–December 1475 the Turks captured the Genoese ports on the south shore. They released Nur Devlet from prison in Sudak and made him khan. Hayder yielded to Nur Devlet but their relations were not good. Nur Devlet proved unpopular and in the spring of 1478 the Turks released their prisoner Mengli and placed him on the throne.
Hayder and Nur Devlet fled to Kiev in the Polish Kingdom. About 1479 they moved to Muscovy under protection of the grand duke
Ivan III, who later banished Hayder to Northern Muscovy for reasons that remain unknown.
[Gaivoronsky, p74 says that there were rumors that the Poles were planning to use him and Ivan decided to be safe, but his only source is Velyaminov-Zernov, which is very old.] He died about 1487 in
Beloozero
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Vologda oblast
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See also
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Crimean Khanate
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History of Crimea
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List of Crimean khans
References
*Oleksa Gaivoronsky. Poveliteli Dvukh Materikov, second edition, Kiev 2010, volume I, pp. 58, 63, 65, 67, 74.
{{Khans of Crimea
Crimean Khans
Year of birth unknown
1480s deaths