Kilij Arslan II [SEP] date of death
Kilij Arslan II
Kilij Arslan II () or ʿIzz ad-Dīn Qilij Arslān bin Masʿūd () (Modern Turkish "Kılıç Arslan", meaning "Sword Lion") was a Seljuk Sultan of Rûm from 1156 until his death in 1192.
Reign.
As Arnold of Lübeck reports in his "Chronica Slavorum", he was present at the meeting of Henry the Lion with Kilij-Arslan during the former's pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1172. When they met near Tarsus, the sultan embraced and kissed the
the same name), captured Konya. In 1116 Kilij Arslan's son, Mesud I, took the city with the help of the Danishmends.
Upon Mesud's death in 1156, the sultanate controlled nearly all of central Anatolia. Mesud's son, Kilij Arslan II, captured the remaining territories around Sivas and Malatya from the last of the Danishmends. At the Battle of Myriokephalon in 1176, Kilij Arslan II also defeated a Byzantine army led by Manuel I Komnenos, dealing a major blow to Byzantine power in the region