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| type = monarch
| name =Kayqubad III
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| succession = [[List of Seljuk sultans of Rûm|Seljuq sultans of Rum]]
| reign = 1298–1301/2
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| predecessor = [[Kaykhusraw III]]
| successor = [[Mesud II]]
| full name = '''ʿAlāʾ ad-Dīn Kayqubād bin Farāmurz'''
| house = [[Seljuq dynasty|House of Seljuq]]
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| issue = Gawhari Naima Khatun
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| birth_date = ca. 1283
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| death_date = 1302
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'''Kayqubad III''' ({{lang-1ca|كَیقُباد سوم}} or '''ʿAlāʾ ad-Dīn Kayqubād bin Farāmurz'''; {{langx|fa|علاء الدین کیقباد بن فرامرز}}) was briefly sultan of the [[Sultanate of Rum]] between the years of 1298 and 1302. He was a nephew of the deposed [[Mesud II]] and had strong support among the [[Seljuks]]. As sultan he was a vassal of the [[Ilkhanate|Mongols]] and exercised no real power.

==Reign==
He first appears ''circa'' 1283 as a pretender to the Seljuk throne. He was recognized by the Turkish [[Karamanids]], but he was defeated by [[vizier]] [[Sâhib Ata|Fakhr al-Din Ali]] and [[Kaykhusraw III]] and sought refuge in [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia|Cilician Armenia]].<ref>Claude Cahen, ''Pre-Ottoman Turkey: a general survey of the material and spiritual culture and history'', trans. J. Jones-Williams, (New York: Taplinger, 1968) p. 294</ref> Nothing is known of his movements again until 1298, when he was appointed to the sultanate by the [[Ilkhanate|Ilkhan]] [[Mahmud Ghazan]] upon the downfall of [[Mesud II|Masud II]]. He purged the Seljuq administration of his predecessor’s men with extreme violence and became deeply unpopular; as a result when he visited the Ilkhan in 1302, he was executed and replaced with his predecessor [[Mesud II]] in order to keep the peace.<ref>Cahen, ''Pre-Ottoman Turkey'', pp. 300f</ref>

==Sources==
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==External links==
*{{cite web|url=http://mehmeteti.150m.com/seljuqsofrum/UE1247.htm |title=Seljuqs of Rum, Kay-Qubadh III, silver dirham |author=Prof. Dr. Mehmet Eti |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080801083656/http://mehmeteti.150m.com/seljuqsofrum/UE1247.htm |archivedate=2008-08-01 }}

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