Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan

Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan

Born	(1850-01-05)5 January 1850 Tabriz
Died	2 July 1918(1918-07-02) (aged 68) Isfahan
Burial	Mashhad
Issue	Prince Soltan Hossein Mirza Jalal ed-Dowleh Prince Bahram Mirza Sardar Mass'oud Prince Akbar Mirza Sarem ed-Dowleh Prince Esma'il Mirza Mo'tamed Dowleh
Dynasty	Qajar
Father	Nasser-al-Din Shah
Mother	Efet-od-Dowleh

Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan ("Mass'oud Mirza the Sultan's Shadow (5 January 1850 in Tabriz – 2 July 1918 in Isfahan) was a Persian prince of the Qajar Dynasty; he was known as the "Yamin-al-Dowleh" ("Right Hand of the Government").

Early life

He was eldest son of Nasser-al-Din Shah and Efet-od-Dowleh, and the brother of Kamran Mirza Nayeb es-Saltaneh and of Mozzafar-al-Din Mirza (who eventually became Mozzafar-al-Din Shah), but Mass'oud Mirza could not ascend as Shah as his mother was from outside the Qajar dynasty's family group.

Later life

He was governor of Esfahan from 1872 to 1907 and governor of Fars from 1907 to 1908. Mass'oud Mirza died in Esfahan in 1918. He was buried in Mashhad. He had 14 sons and 11 daughters.

Issue

Zell-e Soltan had 14 sons and 11 daughters including :

Prince Soltan Hossein Mirza Jalal ed-Dowleh
Prince Bahram Mirza Sardar Mass'oud (1885 – 24 March 1916)
Prince Akbar Mirza Sarem ed-Dowleh (1885 – 29 September 1975)
Prince Esma'il Mirza Mo'tamed Dowleh (1887–1968)

Honours

2nd class of Order of the Lion and the Sun of Persia
1st class of Order of the Lion and the Sun of Persia
2nd class of Neshan-e Aqdas of Persia
Knight of the Order of the Star of India
Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle of Prussia
Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle of Prussia
Knight of the Order of the White Eagle of Russia
Grand Cross of the Legion d'Honneur of France
Exalted Order of Honour of Turkey

References

Soltani, Shahla (2006). Aqajan Shazdeh. Tehran: Farzan Rooz. ISBN 964-321-255-6

External links

Genealogy of descendants of Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan, qajarpages
A carpet made for Zell-e Soltan

Personalities involved in the Persian Constitutional Revolution

Qajar dynasty Tobacco Protest Persian Constitutional Revolution

Kings	Naser al-Din Shah Qajar Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar Ahmad Shah Qajar

Princes	Kamran Mirza Nayeb es-Saltaneh Abdol Majid Mirza Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan Malek Mansur Mirza Shao es-Saltaneh Sheikh Khaz'al

Governmental persons	Mirza Nasrullah Khan Hassan Pirnia Abdol-Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma Ali Asghar Khan Mohammad Vali Khan Tonekaboni Mostowfi ol-Mamalek Ali-Qoli Khan Bakhtiari Colonel Pessian Yeprem Khan Morteza Gholi Khan Hedayat Mehdi Qoli Hedayat

Political intellectuals	Mirza Abdul'Rahim Talibov Tabrizi Mirza Malkam Khan Sayyid Hossein Ardabili Hassan Taqizadeh Ahmad Kasravi Haji-Mirza Hassan Roshdieh Hajj Sayyah

Iranian clerics	Mohammad-Kazem Khorasani Jamal-al-Din al-Afghani Mirza Sayyed Mohammad Tabatabai Hassan Modarres Sheikh Fazlollah Noori Seqat-ol-Eslam Tabrizi Mohammad Khiabani Mirza Abutaleb Zanjani

Iranian and Azerbaijani writers and poets	Iraj Mirza Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda Mirzadeh Eshghi Mirza Alakbar Sabir Mahammad Ali Tarbiat Mammad Amin Rasulzade Aref Qazvini Mohammad-Taqi Bahar Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi Mirza Fatali Akhundov Jahangir-Khan Sur-e-Esrafil

Other key figures	Saad ad-Daula Sattar Khan Bāqer Khān Nikol Duman Haydar Khan e Amo-oghli Yeprem Khan Khetcho Mirza Reza Kermani Sevkaretsi Sako Jamshid Bahman Jamshidian Arshak Gavafian

Foreigners	William Morgan Shuster Howard Baskerville Edward Granville Browne Vladimir Liakhov

Women	Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi Sediqeh Dowlatabadi

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