Inanch

The İnanç family, also known as the Beylik of Lâdik after Laodicea on the Lycus, ruled a small Turkmen principality around Denizli in south-western Anatolia from 1261 to 1368. Its founder Mehmed Bey, a frontier chief of Turkmen clans fleeing the Mongol advance, rebelled against the Seljuk sultan of Rûm in 1261 and placed himself under the Ilkhan Hulagu, only to be captured and killed the following year.

His son-in-law Ali Bey attached the beylik to the Seljuks, but was imprisoned after backing the failed Cimri revolt of 1277, whereupon Lâdik fell under the Sahib Ata family.

Around 1310 the Germiyanid ruler Yakup I seized Lâdik and restored Ali's son İnanç Bey, from whom the dynasty takes its name. His successors kept up a much-reduced principality until the Germiyanids annexed it in 1368.