Bajazet

or Bayazeed, I., an Ot toman Sultan, born 1347, succeeded his father, Amurath I., in 1389. He was the first of his family who as sumed the title of Sultan. After de. feating Hungarians, Germans, and French at Nicopoli, on the Danube, Sept. 28, 1396, Bajazet is said to have boasted that he would feed his horse on the altar of St. Peter at Rome. His progre , however, was arrested by a violent attack of the gout. Bajazet was preparing for an attack on Constantinople, when he was interrupted by the approach of Timur the Great, by whom he was defeated at Angora, in Anatolio, July 28, 1402. He was taken captive, and died about nine months afterward, at Antioch in Pisidia.. He was succeeded by Mohammed I. Modern writers reject as a fiction the story of the iron cage in which Bajazet was said to have been imprisoned.