Person · r. 1548 (three days)
Firuz Shah Suri
The twelve-year-old son of Islam Shah Suri, placed on the throne at Gwalior by the chiefs of the Sur tribe on his father's death; he was murdered within three days by his maternal uncle Mubariz Khan, who then seized the throne.
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- vol. II, p. 141 · read as page image
Shortly after this event, which took place in the year 955, Sulim Shah died, and was succeeded by his son, the Prince Feroze, then twelve years of age who was placed on the throne by the chiefs of the tribe of Soor at Gualiar. He had not reigned three days, when Moobariz Khan, the son of Nizam Khan Soor, at once the nephew of the late Sheer Shah, and brother-in-law of Sulim Shah, assassinated the young Prince, and ascending the throne, assumed the title of Mahomed Shah Adil.
- vol. II, p. 142 · read as page image
on the third day after the death of Sulim Shah, Moobariz Khan, having entered the female apartments, slew with his own hand the unhappy Prince, whom he dragged from the arms of his mother, Beeby Bye, his own sister.