Note (2) — 22.—How Joseph caused Mirenschach to be beheaded, and took possession of all his territory.

(2.) “so that Mirenschach also was put to death.”—Miran Shah actually succumbed in his struggle with Youssouf or Joseph (Dorn, Versuch. einer Gesch. d. Schirwan-Sch., VI, iv, 579). His eldest brother, Miszr Khodja (Weil, Gesch. der Chal., v, 46) had defended the city of Van against Timour in 1394, but contemporary authors do not say whether it was he who put Jehangir to death in 1375. Miszr Khodja may have caused the death of another son of Timour, whom Schiltberger has confounded with Jehangir. Perhaps that of Omar Sheykh, upon the nature of whose death authors are not agreed; Rehm (Tab. gen. des Timurides, v. iv) stating that he died in 1427 only, and Hammer (Hist. de l’E. O., ii, 37) alluding to his sudden death, as having taken place at about the time of the conquest of Van, by Timour, circa 1394.—Bruun.