Hasan Kuchak

Hasan Kuchak (c. 1319–1343), ‘the Little’, was a Chupanid prince who rebuilt his family's power from the wreck of the Ilkhanate. His father Timurtash had been executed by the Mamluks in 1328, while Hasan Buzurg's Jalayirids held western Persia behind a puppet Ilkhan. He reunited the Chupanids by claiming his father was still alive and presenting a slave as Timurtash, even marrying him to the dead man's widows.

On 16 July 1338 he defeated Hasan Buzurg near Van and, aged nineteen, took Tabriz. As kingmaker he raised Sati Beg to the throne, then installed Suleiman Khan and forced her to marry the new khan.

He defeated the Jalayirids again near Maraga in 1340. His wife Izzat Malik murdered him in December 1343. He left no heir, and the Chupanid lands were divided.