Certainty: 2 Kutulmush (?) attacked Mutamid ad-Daula Qirwas b. Muqallad, prince of Mosul, but was defeated Certainty: 2
Certainty: 1 Turkish request to cross Vaspurakan; capture of Stephanos Leichoudes by Kutulmush Certainty: 1
1053
Certainty: 1 Tughrul Beg overpowered Ibrahim Yinal & Kutulmush at Pasar (Khurasan) Certainty: 1
Certainty: 0 Kutulmush fled from Tughrul Beg, captured Kars & requested alliance with Byzantium Certainty: 0
1078
Certainty: 2 Kutulmush's sons offered support to the rebel Nikephoros Botaneiates at Nicaea
Kutlulmush, a cousin of Tughrul Beg the Turkish sultan, with his five sons, had ambitions to set up a power to rival that of their relative, and saw the rebellion of Botaneiates as a useful means to that end. Mansur and Sulayman ibn Kutulmush, in particular, came to Botaneiates at Nicaea and knelt before him, something they had never allowed themselves to do before either a Turkish or a Roman ruler, indicating thus that they would help pave his way to rule in Constantinople. Botaneiates, with his wise words, turned them into loyal supporters