An-Nasir Dawud

Al-Malik-Nasir Salah ad-Din Dawud († about 1256) was an emir of Syria and Palestine from the dynasty of the Ayyubids. He was a son of Emirs al-Mu'azzam 'Isa and a great nephew of the famous Saladin.

An-Nasir followed his father, who died in November 1227, in the rule of Syria with the capital of Damascus. Against him, his two uncles al-Kamil of Egypt, who had already fought against Nasir's father, and al-Ao'fah allied themselves in Mesopotamia. They agreed on a division of his dominion, al-Kamil also involving the Roman-German Emperor Frederick II, who had just arrived in the Orient on the Crusade in April 1228. In the autumn of 1228, al-Kamil occupied Jerusalem, which he surrendered to the Christians in February 1229. In March 1229, an-Nasir was encircled by the troops of his two uncles in Damascus. In July the city had to capitulate. The rule in Damascus fell to al-Ashraf, while al-Kamil got Nordsyria.

An-Nasir was compensated for his loss with the Emirate of Transjordan and the fortress of Kerak as capital, where he ruled as al-Kamil's subordinate to his uncle. In retaliation of an attack on a caravan by Peter Mauclerc in November 1239 (crusade of the barons), attacked-Nasir Jerusalem and destroyed its defenses, but did not take the city. The following year, he supported his nephew, as-Salih Ayyub, whom he had previously captured, in the fall of his brother, the Egyptian sultan of Al-Adil II, hoping to regain control of Damascus from As-Salih Ayyub, but this did not happen. In his last years, Nasir operated on an all-embracing alliance with As-Salih Ayyub of Egypt, as-Salih Ismail of Syria and the Christian barons of Outremer. In 1244, a marauding chorus magistrate seized Jerusalem and expelled the Christians from the city. A year later, as-Salih Ayyub finally conquered Palestine with Jerusalem. In 1248 an-Nasir of as-Salih Ayyub was also deprived of power in Kerak. He died a few years later.

Nasir Dawud is not to be confused with his cousin an-Nasir Yusuf († 1260), who was the last Ayyubid ruler of Damascus. Edit source text

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